El historiador uruguayo Aldo Marchesi analiza los procesos guerrilleros de los años 60 en Sudamerica. Aunque cada uno de estos procesos ha recibido algún grado de atención por parte de los historiadores en sus respectivos países, Marchesi rescata el carácter trasnacional de estos movimientos y la emergencia de una identidad Read more…
Change is on the horizon in Uruguay. On 1 March 2020, the new center-right coalition led by National Party leader Luis Lacalle Pou took over the country’s reigns, bringing an end to a decade and half of government by the center-left Broad Front party. The day also marked the thirty-fifth Read more…
SECOLAS is delighted to announce its latest digital media project Discurso: https://discursorevista.com/ The idea is to offer a text-based rich media user experience in which scholars of Latin America explore a wide array of issues, ranging from the interaction between society and the state to how this relationship is rendered Read more…
The verdict on the Operation Condor trial in Italy will drop before the New Year. In anticipation, the Historias team is providing an encore presentation of our discussion with Dr. Francesca Lessa, a leading scholar on transitional justice and the Operation Condor trials. Happy listening. Dr. Francesca Lessa, the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Read more…
Dr. Francesca Lessa, the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at the Latin American Centre at the University of Oxford, joined Steven to talk about Operation Condor and the pursuit of justice and accountability for the states and actors responsible for transnational human rights crimes in the 1970s. See Francesca’s recent article in Read more…
With or Without Them: Contemporary Student Movements and Parties in the Southern Cone In this week’s featured article, Dr. Indira Palacios-Valladares (2016) examines shifts in social movement ties to political parties. It does so by focusing on three important contemporary Latin American movements: the student movements of Argentina, Chile, and Read more…