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 …
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13 documents in Truth and Reconciliation Commission - Peru
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 …
The Allende Foundation, based in Spain, will create a pension fund with the 8 million dollars (6.1 million euros) to be remitted by the American bank Riggs and will distribute …
A United States bank accepted a lawsuit filed in Spain and will pay 8 million dollars to a fund compensating victims of crimes committed by former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, …
The seminar that gave rise to this publication set out to gather broad reflection from diverse disciplinary fields on human rights violations and the various dimensions of reparation. The reflections …
INTRODUCTION. 1. THEORETICAL ASPECTS OF TRUTH COMMISSIONS. 2. COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF TRUTH COMMISSIONS. 3. SIMILAR EXPERIENCES IN COLOMBIA. 4. CONCLUSIONS.
Almost two years after being established, and with only a few months remaining before completing its work, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (CVR) has begun to disseminate, through its spokespersons, …
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 …
To clarify the full truth about the most serious human rights violations, the Comisión Nacional de Verdad y Reconciliación was established on April 25, 1990, headed by lawyer Raúl Retting. …
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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Chancellor's visit to Chile
The Peruvian Foreign Minister paid an official visit to Santiago de Chile with the aim of initiating a dialogue on the execution of the treaty signed in 1929 between Peru and Chile. This visit took place in a context of internal political tensions in Peru, with confrontations between the Executive …
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Coup d'état in Chile
On September 11, 1973, a coup d'état led by General Augusto Pinochet overthrew the democratically elected leftist government of Salvador Allende in Chile. This event marked the beginning of a military dictatorship that lasted until 1990, characterized by widespread human rights violations and suppression of political opposition.