Truth Commissions: Exhuming the Past
As repressive regimes fade, questions about the past are often central to the politics of the present. Human rights leaders
On Patricio Guzmán’s
Chile, Obstinate Memory (1997) is a film about the fractured biographical narratives of those whose lived experiences have been erased
Chile and History: The Meanings of 1973
It is probably inevitable that historical watersheds are transformed into slo- gans of tremendous symbolic power. Nixon encountered his "Waterloo"
Letter from Chile: Hasta Siempre Gladys
It was fitting that the funeral of Gladys Marín Millie was held March 8, 2005, International Womens Day. Marín, who
A Time of Forgetting The Myths of the Chilean Transition
Nothing indicated that the Chilean postdictator.ship would be a time of forgetting. Nothing prepared us for the sustained attack against
Unsettled Accounts: Militarization and Memory in Postwar Peru
On April 22, 1997, military commandos burst into the residence of the Japanese ambassador to Peru, where rebels of the
The Falcon Remembered
During Argentina's Dirty War of the 1970s, the Ford Falcon became the single most recognizable icon of repression. Robert presents how workers' unions, including that of Ford, struggled and charged private corporations for human rights violations.
