...Gustavo Anguizola Human Rights and Basic Needs in the Americas . Edited by Crahan Margaret E. . Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press , 1982 . Tables. Notes . Pp. xiii , 343 . Paper . $8.95 . Cloth . $20.00 . Human Rights in the Americas: The Struggle...

... the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in Guayaquil, Ecuador. This chapter makes a valuable contribution to what will likely become a growing field of inquiry, in light of other international court cases past and present relating to crimes perpetrated during the Salvadoran civil war and the Salvadoran...

...David M. K. Sheinin Impunity, Human Rights, and Democracy: Chile and Argentina, 1990–2005 . By Wright Thomas C. . Austin : University of Texas Press , 2014 . Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xii, 192 pp. Cloth , $55.00 . Copyright © 2018 by Duke University Press 2018 Well...

...Karen Robert State Terrorism in Latin America: Chile, Argentina, and International Human Rights . By Wright Thomas C. . Lanham, MD : Rowman & Littlefield , 2007 . Notes. Bibliography. Index . xvi , 269 pp. Cloth , $80.00 . Paper , $29.95 . Copyright 2008 by Duke...

...Brian Loveman Copyright 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 Edward Cleary begins with the assertion that there is a distinctive human rights tradition in Latin America, dating from Bartolomé de Las Casas’s defense of the Indians after Spanish conquest. Jumping forward, Cleary then notes...

...Charlotte M. Gradie The Jesuits in Latin America, 1549 – 2000: 450 Years of Inculturation, Defense of Human Rights, and Prophetic Witness . By Klaiber Jeffrey L. SJ . St. Louis, MO : Institute of Jesuit Sources , 2009 . Maps. Notes. Bibliography. Index . viii , 463 . Paper...

...Matthew E. Franco Renaissance Ethnography and the Invention of the Human: New Worlds, Maps, and Monsters . By Surekha Davies . Cambridge Social and Cultural Histories . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2016 . Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xxiii, 355 pp. Cloth...

...K. Lynn Stoner Feminism for the Americas: The Making of an International Human Rights Movement . By Katherine M. Marino Gender and American Culture . Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 2019 . Photographs. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index . 354 pp. Cloth...

... in this review originated in the Center for Latin American Studies at the University of Florida. The first, Population Growth and Human Productivity , consists of a series of papers and comments on the papers from a symposium dealing with population growth, labor, health, education, and human productivity held...

...Jennifer Adair Desaparición: Argentina's Human Rights Trials . Edited by Andreozzi Gabriele . Translated by Gorman David . Hispanic Studies: Culture and Ideas . Bern, Switzerland : Peter Lang , 2014 . Notes. Bibliography. Index. 347 pp. Paper , $64.95 . Copyright © 2016...

...Gisela Cramer The Fate of Freedom Elsewhere: Human Rights and US Cold War Policy toward Argentina . By Schmidli William Michael . Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press , 2013 . Notes. Bibliography. Index. xiv, 256 pp. Cloth , $39.95 . Copyright © 2015 by Duke University Press...

...Stephen Ropp Perhaps the most valuable contribution Tate’s book makes to the existing literature on human rights is to show how evolving institutional cultures and identities within activist NGOs in developing countries such as Colombia may affect their choice of strategy and tactics. For while...

... and deeply personal “self-interview” in which Green reflects on his decades of international activism in the service of gay rights, human rights, and antiauthoritarianism. Times are tough for the discourse of human rights. Assailed for its privileging of the individual over the communitarian, for being...

...A. Ricardo López-Pedreros The Social Origins of Human Rights: Protesting Political Violence in Colombia's Oil Capital, 1919–2010 . By Luis van Isschot . Critical Human Rights . Madison : University of Wisconsin Press , 2015 . Photographs. Maps. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xxviii, 297...

...Manuella Meyer Punishment in Paradise: Race, Slavery, Human Rights, and a Nineteenth-Century Brazilian Penal Colony . By Peter M. Beattie . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2015 . Maps. Tables. Figures. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xiv, 337 pp. Paper , $26.95...

...Jaymie Patricia Heilman Conflicted Memory: Military Cultural Interventions and the Human Rights Era in Peru . By Cynthia E. Milton . Critical Human Rights . Madison : University of Wisconsin Press , 2018 . Maps. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xv, 276 pp. Cloth , $79.95...

...Kevin Gosner The Human Body and Ideology: Concepts of the Ancient Nahuas . 2 vols. By Austin Alfredo López . Translated by de Montellano Thelma Ortiz and de Montellano Bernard Ortiz . Salt Lake City : University of Utah Press , 1988 . (Vol. I) Figures. Maps. Photographs...

...Andrew J. Kirkendall Freedom on the Offensive: Human Rights, Democracy Promotion, and US Interventionism in the Late Cold War . By William Michael Schmidli . The United States in the World . Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press , 2022 . Notes. Bibliography. Index. xii , 312 pp...

... on Latin American affairs were moved by a stern adherence to a bipolar and inflexible idea of the Cold War. As such, Rabe concludes that in the region Kissinger granted greater importance to stabilization and anti-Communism than to human rights. While the book contains a solid chapter on US involvement...

...Elizabeth Quay Hutchison With The Condor Trials , Francesca Lessa offers an important contribution to the Latin Americanization of the Cold War, further demonstrating the importance of local actors in both the violation and the defense of human rights during and after this period. It is a work...