As rising authoritarianism throws societies further into political and social chaos, this 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. Across the region, societies now facing an erosion of their human rights protections are the same societies that remain indelibly marked by past episodes of militarized repression. This issue also explores these legacies—disappearance’s afterlife—from the ongoing forms of disappearance that impede truth and justice, to the ways families and advocates continue to resist erasure.
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Summer
2024
Volume:
56
Number:
2