The Condor Trials: Transnational Repression and Human Rights in South America Lessa Francesca
The Condor Trials: Transnational Repression and Human Rights in South America Lessa Francesca Stories of transnational terror and justice illuminate the past and present of South America's struggles…
Specifikacia The Condor Trials: Transnational Repression and Human Rights in South America Lessa Francesca
The Condor Trials: Transnational Repression and Human Rights in South America Lessa Francesca
Stories of transnational terror and justice illuminate the past and present of South America's struggles for human rights "Outstanding. . . . Under Operation Condor, their violent and oppressive regimes kidnapped, tortured, and murdered hundreds of exiles, or forcibly returned them to the countries from which they had fled. An Olympian view of the Condor system."--Philip Chrimes, International AffairsThrough the voices of survivors and witnesses, human rights activists, judicial actors, journalists, and historians, Francesca Lessa unravels the secrets of transnational repression masterminded by South American dictators between 1969 and 1981.
South America became a zone of terror for those who were targeted, and of impunity for those who perpetuated the violence.Lessa shows how networks of justice seekers gradually materialized and effectively transcended