Stories of transnational terror and justice illuminate the past and present of South America’s struggles for human rights.Through the voices of survivors, human rights activists, judicial actors, and experts, The Condor Trials unravels the secrets of transnational repression masterminded by South American dictators between 1969 and 1981. Under Operation Condor, the regimes of Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay, and Uruguay closely monitored hundre...

Una reconstrucción histórica minuciosa del Plan Cóndor y, con ello, devela la trama intergubernamental de persecución política en el Cono Sur de América Latina.En Los juicios del Cóndor, Francesca Lessa —académica referente en el estudio de los derechos humanos en América Latina— presenta una investigación exhaustiva sobre la represión transnacional coordinada por las dictaduras sudamericanas en la década del setenta y principios de los ochenta, así como los proces...

In Operation Condor: The Pact That Terrorized a Continent, Francesca Lessa uncovers the shadowy machinery behind one of the most chilling transnational terror campaigns of the twentieth century. What began as a secret pact among South America's military dictatorships quickly grew into a coordinated system of surveillance, kidnappings, torture, and disappearances that reached across borders and oceans. Through meticulous research and newly unearthed documents, Lessa reveals how tho...

El artista e ilustrador Sebastián Santana y la académica Francesca Lessa reúnen sus conocimientos para crear un relato original, textual y gráfico, sobre el Plan Cóndor.«A cincuenta años de los golpes de Estado en Uruguay y Chile, y a cuarenta años del retorno de la democracia en Argentina, este libro revela algunos de los secretos del Plan Cóndor —del surgimiento de la coordinación represiva trasnacional en los setenta, de su implementación y, también, de su caída...

This interdisciplinary study explores the interaction between memory and transitional justice in post-dictatorship Argentina and Uruguay and develops a theoretical framework for bringing these two fields of study together through the concept of critical junctures.

Through various lenses and theoretical approaches, this book explores the contested experiences, meanings, realms, goals, and challenges associated with the construction, preservation, and transmission of the memories of state repression in Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay.

This edited volume brings together well-established and emerging scholars of transitional justice to discuss the persistence of amnesty in the age of human rights accountability. The volume attempts to reframe debates, moving beyond the limited approaches of 'truth versus justice' or 'stability versus accountability' in which many of these issues have been cast in the existing scholarship. The theoretical and empirical contributions in this book offer new ways of understanding and tackling...