The Condor Trials: Transnational Repression and Human Rights in South America - Couverture rigide

Lessa, Francesca

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0300254091 ISBN 13 : 9780300254099

Editeur : Yale University Press, 2022

Synopsis

Stories of transnational terror and justice illuminate the past and present of South America's struggles for human rights

"Outstanding. . . . An Olympian view of the Condor system."--Philip Chrimes, International Affairs

Through 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. 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. 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 national borders to achieve justice for the victims of these horrors. Based on extensive fieldwork, archival research, trial ethnography, and over one hundred interviews, The Condor Trials explores South America's past and present and sheds light on ongoing struggles for justice as its societies come to terms with the unparalleled atrocities of their not-so-distant pasts.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Francesca Lessa is a lecturer in Latin American studies and development at the University of Oxford. She is the author of Memory and Transitional Justice in Argentina and Uruguay and the honorary president of the Observatorio Luz Ibarburu (Uruguay). The Condor Trials received the 2023 Juan E. Méndez Book Award for Human Rights in Latin America.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Yale University Press
• Date d'édition: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0300254091
• ISBN 13: 9780300254099
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 392
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• Personne responsable: non disponible