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The Inter American Press Association
The Inter American Press Association (IAPA) has been a pioneer in the concept of an inter-American professional, independent, and self-sufficient pressure group that acts on its own initiative and subsists on its own resources. This study first traces the development of IAPA from the initial meeting in 1926 through the mid-1940’s, when a small group of dedicated Latin American and United States journalists began the fight to wrest the IAPA from the control of government lackeys and Communist agents. Previously scarce accounts of the early annual meetings, often noisy and disorganized and sometimes violent, give the reader an insight into the problems and animosities faced by the democratic...
Allende’s Chile and the Inter-American Cold War
Fidel Castro described Salvador Allende's democratic election as president of Chile in 1970 as the most important revolutionary triumph in Latin America after the Cuban revolution. Yet celebrations were short lived. In Washington, the Nixon administration vowed to destroy Allende's left-wing government while Chilean opposition forces mobilized against him. The result was a battle for Chile that ended in 1973 with a right-wing military coup and a brutal dictatorship lasting nearly twenty years. Tanya Harmer argues that this battle was part of a dynamic inter-American Cold War struggle to determine Latin America's future, shaped more by the contest between Cuba, Chile, the United States, and B...
Congressional Record
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Encyclopedia of Human Rights
Preface to the first edition
Doctrine, Practice, and Advocacy in the Inter-American Human Rights System
This book allows readers to develop a critical understanding of the inter-American human rights system, as well as the dynamics of rights abuse and state response to violations in the Americas. The inter-American human rights system consists of two bodies, the Inter-American Commission and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. The system has been and continues to be essential for the defense and protection of human rights in the Western hemisphere.
