democratic transition

One cannot talk about the future of education without talking about the future of work. There are immediate questions of

THE WORKERS PARTY (PT) OF BRAZIL IS THE most important new political party to form on the Left in Latin

When General Augusto Pinoehet ar- rived in Valparaiso last March to hand over power to Christian Democrat Patri- cio Aylwin

A tightrope walker must maintain balance while moving steadfastly along a wire, with the constant danger of falling into the

After the results of the plebiscite came in, the joy in the streets of San- tiago was palpable. It was

Almost two decades after the wave of political transitions to "democracy" in South America, the effective protection of human rights

As I flew over the Andes mountains and into Santiago last July, I heard the high-pitched, excited voices of several

As the increasingly independent judicial branch in Argentina has taken important steps to address the legacy of military human rights

Chile, Obstinate Memory (1997) is a film about the fractured biographical narratives of those whose lived experiences have been erased

Ever since August 10, 1979, when young Jaime Rold6s was voted into power after nine years of dictatorship, Ecuador's democratic

Nothing indicated that the Chilean postdictator.ship would be a time of forgetting. Nothing prepared us for the sustained attack against

On August 19, on the eve of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the military coup headed by General Augusto Pinochet on