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A Lexicon of Terror
"We were all out in la charca, and there they were, coming over the ridge, a battalion ready for war, against a schoolhut full of children." Tanks roaring over farmlands, pregnant mothers tortured, their babies stolen and sold on the black market, homes raided in the dead of night, ordinary citizens kidnapped and never seen again--such were the horrors of Argentina's Dirty War. Now, in A Lexicon of Terror, Marguerite Feitlowitz fully exposes the nightmare of sadism, paranoia, and deception the military dictatorship unleashed on the Argentine people, a nightmare that would claim over 30,000 civilians from 1976 to 1983 and whose leaders were recently issued warrants by a Spanish court for the ...
When Democracy Breaks
This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read on the Oxford Academic platform and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Democracy is often described in two opposite ways, as either wonderfully resilient or dangerously fragile. Both characterizations can be correct, depending on the context. When Democracy Breaks aims to deepen our understanding of what separates democratic resilience from democratic fragility by focusing on the latter. The volume's collaborators--experts in the history and politics of the societies covered in their chapters--explore eleven episodes of democratic brea...
The Informal Regulation of Criminal Markets in Latin America
This book shows how police and politicians in Latin America informally regulate drug markets using corruption and violence.
El señor de la Corte
La historia menos conocida del hombre más poderoso de la Justicia. Sus comienzos como abogado, la ambición por el poder y el dinero, sus enemigos en una investigación rigurosamente documentada. Este libro cuenta la historia de un hombre que empezó por el escalón más bajo de los tribunales y arribó a lo más alto del Poder Judicial de la Nación. En estas páginas se relata su infancia en Rafaela, provincia de Santa Fe, su militancia en la Juventud Peronista, el coqueteo con la Unión Cívica Radical y la fascinación por la política. Sus comienzos como abogado en Rafaela perfilan a un hombre que ha sabido desde temprano construir poder y hacer buenos negocios. El vínculo de Ricardo Lorenzetti con el kirchnerismo no ha tenido pocos vaivenes y también de ello da cuenta este libro, como de las tensiones internas en la Corte Suprema bajo su presidencia. Admirado, perseguido, sospechado. Hablan quienes lo conocen bien y, por supuesto, el mismo personaje en una entrevista final sin desperdicio.
Destruction and human remains
This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. Destruction and human remains investigates a crucial question frequently neglected in academic debate in the fields of mass violence and genocide studies: what is done to the bodies of the victims after they are killed? In the context of mass violence, death does not constitute the end of the executors' work. Their victims' remains are often treated and manipulated in very specific ways, amounting in some cases to true social engineering, often with remarkable ingenuity. To address these seldom-documented phenomena, this volume includes chapters based on extensive primary and archival res...
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Addressing Inequality from a Human Rights Perspective
This book points to an emerging set of ideas and practices being developed by activists, scholars, and courts from a range of countries that reveals the potential of human rights to resolve other radical injustices and to build more robust civil society movements against inequality and deregulation. Numerous countries around the globe are witnessing a similar experience in their modern political contexts: democratic tools and human rights instruments—which have facilitated undeniable improvements in the lives of millions—are proving largely insufficient for preventing extreme forms of exclusion. In other words, while human rights have played a fundamental role in highlighting inequalitie...
La mano izquierda de Dios (Tomo 4). La última dictadura (1976-1983)
«¡Qué bien escrito está este libro! Narra una historia terrible con la fuerza de la prosa y casi sin adjetivos; no los precisa. Las notas al pie son un tesoro por sí mismas. Cubren los más estrictos cánones académicos. Quiero rendir homenaje al valor y al vuelo de este gran libro. Verbitsky le ha aportado a la historia argentina de manera fundamental». Guillermo O'Donnell
Angels With Dirty Faces
'ABSORBING' Guardian 'ENTHRALLING' New Statesman 'EPIC' Evening Standard 'INESCAPABLE' The Sunday Times 'MAGISTERIAL' Irish Examiner Fully revised and updated, the definitive history of Argentinian football from the award-winning author of Inverting the Pyramid Alfredo Di Stefano, Diego Maradona, Gabriel Batistua, Juan Roman Riquelme, Lionel Messi... Argentina has produced some of the greatest footballers of all time. But the rich, volatile history of Argentinian football is made up of both the sublime and the ruthlessly pragmatic. Jonathan Wilson, having lived in Buenos Aires, is ideally placed to chart the sport's development in a country that, perhaps more than any other, lives and breath...
