Sunday, 2 March 2014

Chilean human rights abusers continue to receive military benefits

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Chilean online paper Cambio 21 reports on calls for former high-ranking military officers to be demoted to prevent them from receiving milit...
Thursday, 27 February 2014

Uruguay's army chief wants to "turn the page"

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Uruguay has a new army chief, Juan Villagrán, replacing Pedro Aguerre. Villagrán has already stirred up controversy with his remarks about t...

Sebastião Salgado as migrant

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The Lens blog of the New York Times has an interesting piece about Sebastião Salgado's early work. It notes that he led dictatorship-era...
Saturday, 22 February 2014

Argentina: Remains of vice-governor of Tucumán discovered

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It has been confirmed that the remains discovered in the Pozo de Vargas, Tucumán, include those of the former vice-governor of the province,...
Thursday, 20 February 2014

Argentina: Trial of the judges

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A high-profile human rights trial opened this week in Mendoza, Argentina. It is the "trial of the judges" (juicio a los jueces) of...
Tuesday, 18 February 2014

Argentina: Devoto prison deaths to be reinvestigated?

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Nearly a year ago, I blogged about the so-called "mattress riot" - motín de los colchones - which occurred at the Devoto prison i...
Sunday, 9 February 2014

Argentina: More on museum project for ESMA

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Pagina/12 provides more information on the memory museum project for the ESMA site in Buenos Aires. The curators of the place of memory wi...