Against Forgetting

This issue of the NACLA Report highlights a number of historical reckonings recently emerging or long under way across the region. Authors explore the legacies of colonialism, memories of dictatorships and armed conflicts, and experiences of more recent episodes of state-sanctioned violence and forgetting. Their analyses reveal how memory can be leveraged as a tool of education, political action, and alternative building, while its antithesis, forgetting, can serve as a weapon to impose silence and erasure. Read the editor's note.