When we remember the military dictatorship we lived through in Argentina, we think of the disappeared, the economic boom ("plata dulce"), the Falklands War, etc. What many people do not …
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13 documents in Truth and Reconciliation Commission - Peru
The "dirty war" in Argentina is one of the open wounds of its contemporary history. The Madres de Plaza de Mayo keep alive the memory of thousands of disappeared people …
The Peruvian CVR is a direct heir of the Comisión Nacional sobre la Desaparición de Personas (CONADEP) in Argentina and of the Comisión de Esclarecimiento Histórico (CEH) of Guatemala. Its …
It is striking how little we know about the actual state of the judicial process in Peru. Even more striking is how little interest the topic generates. It is worth …
In order to highlight and analyze the Fujimori trial in comparative perspective, as well as other proceedings for human rights violations currently underway in various parts of Latin America, the …
A summary of the atrocities committed by the Argentine military who were in power. During the years of the self-styled Proceso de Reorganización Nacional (1976–1983), the government formed by the …
Volume 88 Number 862 June 2006. Numerous truth commissions of different types are being created around the world. The purpose of this schematic overview is to study the variety and …
Latin America seeks to settle accounts with its darkest past. Over the last two years an unprecedented process has taken place in which, simultaneously, several countries in the region have …
In recent decades our region has experienced many violent conflicts and also their endings. This book allows us to better understand the situation in several countries of the Latin American …
The Truth Commission recently created in Peru by Executive Decree No. 065-2001-PCM will be, in its kind, the 22nd worldwide. In the Latin American sphere, the four most important Truth …
Synoptic table of the composition, period, facts to be investigated, objectives, functions, and powers of the truth commissions established in Argentina, Chile, El Salvador, Guatemala, and South Africa.
The process of coming to terms with the past, in societies where totalitarian regimes were established, begins in some cases with the work of Truth Commissions, tasked with investigating human …
Most Latin American societies experienced, over the last four decades, ongoing situations of violence and internal conflict, due to serious conditions of injustice and economic and social inequality. Faced with …
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