The Summer 2024 issue of the NACLA Report on the Americas excavates how disappearance has reemerged or persisted as a dependable technique of terror, social control, and revisionism. The following pieces are web exclusives articles published as part of this issue.
Read the editor’s introduction for more.
WEB EXCLUSIVES
Narrating the Distance of Transnational Adoption
For transnational adoptees wrenched from El Salvador and Guatemala in the throes of civil war, storytelling and art are powerful tools for navigating identity, dislocation, haunting, and healing.
Paraguay, A Node in Operation Condor’s Global Disappearance Network
¿A dónde están? Where are they? In Paraguay, the answer to the question of those seeking justice for the disappeared is blunt: they are in the backyard of the elite police headquarters 15 minutes from downtown Asunción.
The Double Disappearance Inside Chile’s Patio 29
Exhumation of a mass grave in Santiago finally promised answers, but botched DNA testing left the families of victims reeling. Five decades later, the search for truth continues.
Repertoires of Healing and Dissent
For the Mothers of Soacha, murals, performances, and tattoos create a living monument of grief and defiance in their search for the truth about the thousands of “false positives” killed and disappeared in Colombia.
PODCAST
The Legacy of the Monroe Doctrine | Under the Shadow, Bonus Episode 3
Historian Greg Grandin examines the long shadow of the Monroe Doctrine, which continues to shape U.S. imperialism in Latin America.
Under the Shadow uncovers the history of U.S. intervention in Central America and its lingering effects today. Episodes 3, 4, and 6 give special attention to the disappeared in Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras.
EN ESPAÑOL
Linajes de resistencia, de las Madres y Abuelas hasta las luchas feministas masivas
Ante un gobierno anti derechos, negacionista y apologista de la dictadura, los feminismos argentinos y las mujeres de la lucha por los desparecidxs sostienen un vínculo amistoso de militancia.
Arte contra el olvido en México
Cuando la historia de la desparición forzada en México se cuenta en cifras, carece de un principio o un fin. Prácticas artísticas de resistencia buscan hacer visible la ausencia.
Defensores territoriales garífunas luchan contra una política de exterminio
Según lideres comunitarios, la violencia y desplazamiento que facilita el acaparamiento de tierras con fines de lucro en toda la costa caribeña de Honduras es nada menos que un genocidio contra el pueblo Garífuna.
“No nos callaremos ante nuestros verdugos”
En una comunidad colombiana dedicada durante mucho tiempo a la no violencia y la defensa ambiental, dos asesinatos recientes subrayan los desafíos que enfrentan los planes del gobierno de izquierda para una paz duradera.