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Hispanic American Historical Review (2012) 92 (2): 378–381.
Published: 01 May 2012
...Daphne Patai A Mother’s Cry: A Memoir of Politics, Prison, and Torture under the Brazilian Military Dictatorship . By Sattamini Lina Penna . Edited and with an introduction by Green James N. . Translated by Nielson Rex P. Green James N. . Epilogue by Arruda Marcos P...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2001) 81 (3-4): 813–814.
Published: 01 August 2001
...Todd A. Diacon Secret Dialogues: Church-State Relations, Torture, and Social Justice in Authoritarian Brazil . By Serbin Kenneth P. . Pitt Latin American Series . Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press , 2000 . Photographs. Illustrations. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2018) 98 (2): 257–292.
Published: 01 May 2018
...Jaymie Patricia Heilman Abstract Arrests for participation in the global cocaine trade surged in Peru during the 1970s. This article uses court cases to explore complaints in Ayacucho of wrongful arrests in the cocaine trade, examining claims of innocence, false confessions under torture...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1993) 73 (3): 513–514.
Published: 01 August 1993
...Donald C. Hodges It is noteworthy that subversives shared with their torturers a common messianic-eschatological polarization between friends and enemies, the political Right and Left. Graziano dismisses this perception as mythological in failing to focus on the complexities of history cast...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1992) 72 (3): 441–442.
Published: 01 August 1992
... questions in all their paradoxical glory: How can humankind be so inhumane? How do torturers justify their actions, and how do they escape punishment for their villainous deeds? From what place, at the same time, do the courageous few summon the strength to challenge them, even knowing that by standing up...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2012) 92 (2): 381–382.
Published: 01 May 2012
... . Copyright 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 This important book provides significant insight into how human rights activists made the US Congress and mass media aware of the Brazilian military governments’ torture of political opponents. It is, by far, the most detailed account we have. James N...
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Visões do golpe: A memória militar sobre 1964 Os anos de chumbo: A memória militar sobre a repressão
Hispanic American Historical Review (2001) 81 (3-4): 808–811.
Published: 01 August 2001
... usually surrounding the tortures, deaths, and disappearances of those years lowers slightly as the interviewees are asked questions about these issues. It is when summarizing this section of the text that the editors most deviate from their attempted neutrality, attempting to explain responses...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2004) 84 (3): 566–567.
Published: 01 August 2004
... to suppress their populations through terror, torture, and other indefensible and nondemocratic practices. Even today, protesters (including celebs such as Susan Saran-don and Ed Asner) gather annually outside the gates of WHINSEC to observe the rituals of publicly excoriating the school for all its sins...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2010) 90 (2): 327–329.
Published: 01 May 2010
... and residing at the time in the city of Cochabamba. This late eighteenth-century document is particularly striking in that it not only addresses vividly the crooked functioning of the justice system and the tortures and abuses committed by the local authorities when they jailed its author, accusing him...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1991) 71 (2): 398–399.
Published: 01 May 1991
..., Borge needed still more patience to endure hunger and disease at the hands of nature along with imprisonment and torture by the National Guard. More than once he vacillated. Only gradually did he and his companions come to understand that the struggle would be hard, painful, and protracted...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1984) 64 (2): 401–403.
Published: 01 May 1984
..., are here: Elza Fernandes (Elvira Cupello Calônio) and Cabeção (Francisco Natividade Lyra, her executioner); the “tomato heads” (red beret-clad carioca police athletes who specialized in torture of political prisoners); Luis Garlos Prestes, the puppetlike leader of the Brazilian Communist party; Carlos...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2008) 88 (4): 676–678.
Published: 01 November 2008
... of the Brazilian MST, Movimento dos Trabalhadores sem Terra), then on policing, torture, and corruption. On these topics the book offers a provocative shotgun inventory of the activities of nongovernmental and transnational human rights organizations. However, other than the claim that Latin Americans themselves...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1979) 59 (2): 363–364.
Published: 01 May 1979
... of imprisonment and some highly effective torture when she was first arrested. If there should be any apologist for the Pinochet regime that does not believe the many tales of torture and brutality in Chilean prisons, the book may help to convince them. The merit of the volume is that it does give...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1992) 72 (3): 435–436.
Published: 01 August 1992
... and torture, its enthusiasm for secret police operations and anti-Semitism. This analysis was possible thanks to the scholarly use of such new archives as the papers of Filinto Muller, a former army rebel of the 1920s, police chief, and torture coordinator in the 1930s and 1940s. Professor Hilton shows...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1989) 69 (3): 583–584.
Published: 01 August 1989
... plans for eventual annexation of the island. Slave unrest in this atmosphere was inevitable. Minor uprisings, and plots of major uprisings, were reported with increasing frequency. Then, in 1843, the torture of suspected slave conspirators in a revolt in the sugar district of Sabanilla led...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1982) 62 (3): 517–518.
Published: 01 August 1982
...Martin H. Sable After valid descriptions of psychological reactions to his own and others’ tortures, Timerman presents his method of survival: passivity and purposeful suppression of memory. Finally, as a result of additional and extreme punishment meted out to him and to all Jewish prisoners...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1995) 75 (1): 131–132.
Published: 01 February 1995
... the insurgents and the army. Falla, however, mostly ignores the revolutionaries, concentrating on the actions of the army and on the peasants caught in the middle. The army, suspecting the settlers of aiding the revolutionaries, resorted to abductions, tortures, and massacres. Falla documents these through...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1997) 77 (2): 358–359.
Published: 01 May 1997
... dictatorships that ruled in the Southern Cone of South America in the 1970s and 1980s had many features in common: national security doctrine, torture, the “disappeared,” and the near-destruction of civil society. The regime similarities in Chile, Argentina, and Uruguay were great, but there was one glaring...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2013) 93 (1): 143–144.
Published: 01 February 2013
... inner circle in 1972 and worked as a militant in the Socialist Party. The military government abducted her in 1974, tortured, raped, and shot her, then worked to make her a collaborator. She subsequently provided not only details about the structure of leftist organizations, but also specific names. She...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1975) 55 (4): 813–815.
Published: 01 November 1975
... Perón clearly excelled—then one need not look much further to find why, in 1975, Argentina is in such sad straits under Peronist rule. Robert J. Alexander is another scholar whom Ciria attacks repeatedly for his alleged anti-Peronist viewpoint. Alexander’s criticism of police torture under Perón...
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