Memory in Latin America

...the news headlines include a number of stories that reflect the persistence of a past that is everlasting and does not wish to pass... (Jelin, State Repression and the Struggles for Memory, 2003)

Friday, 6 April 2012

Good Friday news round-up

Argentina
Half of Argentines believe Malvinas conflict ‘will never be solved’, shows poll (Mercopress)
Argentine Dictatorship’s Torture Continued in Malvinas/Falklands (IPS)
Argentine war heroes revealed to be henchmen in military dictatorship (Washington Post)

Colombia
Colombia commemorates landmine victims (Colombia Reports)
Colombia “rolls up to show a leg” to honour thousands of anti-personnel mines victims (Mercopress)

Dominican Republic
Inter-American Court ruling condemns the 1994 forced disappearance of Dominican Republic journalist (Journalism in the Americas)

Peru
Peru Captures Shining Path Leader In Upper Huallaga (Peruvian Times)
Shining Path 'defeated' in Alto Huallaga stronghold (BBC)

Posted by Lillie Langtry at 10:33
Labels: Argentina, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Peru

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