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Impunity, Human Rights, and Democracy: Chile and Argentina, 1990-2005

Autor Thomas C. Wright
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 10 dec 2014
Universal human rights standards were adopted in 1948, but in the 1970s and 1980s, violent dictatorships in Argentina and Chile flagrantly defied the new protocols. Chilean general Augusto Pinochet and the Argentine military employed state terrorism in their quest to eradicate Marxism and other forms of “subversion.” Pinochet constructed an iron shield of impunity for himself and the military in Chile, while in Argentina, military pressure resulted in laws preventing prosecution for past human rights violations. When democracy was reestablished in both countries by 1990, justice for crimes against humanity seemed beyond reach.
Thomas C. Wright examines how persistent advocacy by domestic and international human rights groups, evolving legal environments, unanticipated events that impacted public opinion, and eventual changes in military leadership led to a situation unique in the world—the stripping of impunity not only from a select number of commanders of the repression but from all those involved in state terrorism in Chile and Argentina. This has resulted in trials conducted by national courts, without United Nations or executive branch direction, in which hundreds of former repressors have been convicted and many more are indicted or undergoing trial.
Impunity, Human Rights, and Democracy draws on extensive research, including interviews, to trace the erosion and collapse of the former repressors’ impunity—a triumph for human rights advocates that has begun to inspire authorities in other Latin American countries, including Peru, Uruguay, Brazil, and Guatemala, to investigate past human rights violations and prosecute their perpetrators.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781477309827
ISBN-10: 1477309829
Pagini: 206
Ilustrații: 1 table
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.25 kg
Editura: University of Texas Press
Colecția University of Texas Press

Notă biografică

THOMAS C. WRIGHT is Distinguished Professor of History, Emeritus, at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. His many previous books include State Terrorism in Latin America: Chile, Argentina, and International Human Rights and Latin America in the Era of the Cuban Revolution.

Cuprins

Acknowledgments
List of Acronyms
Introduction
Chapter 1. State Terrorism in the Southern Cone
Chapter 2. The Construction of Impunity
Chapter 3. Human Rights Advocacy
Chapter 4. The Changing Legal Environment, Domestic and International
Chapter 5. Precipitating Events
Chapter 6. The Eclipse of Impunity
Conclusion
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index

Descriere

This in-depth study highlights the unique, precedent-setting approach taken by Argentina and Chile to empower human rights advocates while prosecuting the perpetrators of crimes against humanity, whose rise to power during the 1970s and 1980s once appeared unstoppable.