...Ximena Espeche Abstract Operation Truth (Operación Verdad) was the Cuban Revolution’s first major intervention in the global mass media. In late January 1959, the revolutionary government invited journalists and politicians from around the world to witness the trials and executions of individuals...

..., “Between Emotion and Calculation: Press Coverage of Operation Truth (1959),” on the mass media and the Cuban Revolution. The author focuses on Operation Truth, an early intervention in the international media carried out by the revolutionary leadership in the context of the trials and executions of members...

... at least, of any kind of remorse. Except for one askari who asked for forgiveness during an encounter with several of the mothers weeks later, the policemen either reiterated the old version or simply denied any knowledge of the involvement of covert operations squads. Foren- sic truth, the product...

... of Chile's truth and reconciliation process. In February 1999, the president authorized, and his administration initiated, the Chile Declassification Project. © 2016 by MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization, Inc. 2016 declassified documents US foreign policy Pinochet Nixon Kissinger CIA...

... nor necessarily wrong. Filmmakers who want to present history in dramatic and nondidac- tic ways need to compress historical time and to construct composite characters. But such decisions raise necessary questions about what Natalie Zemon Davis has called a history film's "truth status," its...

... the casual, deadly brutality of police officers emboldened by curfew and a sense of their own omnipotence. Their names are plucked from the 1991 truth commission report by the Association of Relatives of Victims of Political Execution (Agrupación de Familiares de Ejecutados Políticos, AFEP), which has...

...” truth of the indi- vidual. The distinction also operates as a system of exclusion, admitting only those forms of knowledge that operate under a will to truth and excluding those subject and social formations marked as irrational. In addition, the division between truth and untruth works...

...R. J. Lambrose MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization, Inc. 2006 The Abusable Past R. J. Lambrose Truth Teller David Horowitz has made himself the standard-bearer of truth, justice, and fairness against the depredations of academic historians. This January, when the American...

..., or history. They attack those who challenge their ideas as dangerous and subver- sive, antithetical to the academic enterprise. They offer themselves as apostles of timeless truths, when in fact they are enemies of change. The cry that politics has recently invaded the university, imported...

...Greg Grandin; Thomas Miller Klubock MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization, Inc. 2007 REFLECTIONS Introduction: A U.S. Truth Commission? The United States, enjoying over two centuries of nearly uninterrupted institu- tional stability and constitutional rule, has never been...

... of constant self-empowerment.28 The videos thereby become a representation of a reality that is contending the dominance of the prevalent discourse, a site of the struggle over discourse (and truth) and within discourse. The filmed operations are meant to break this inability of self-representation...

... official silence, survivors themselves are the first to recognize that documenting the operations of the state apparatus of torture is particularly important for truth and accountability purposes. 3 And because the US government was intimately involved in training, funding, and advising the Salvadoran...

... from the country’s miracu- lous economic transformation. Their narratives, often predictably reconciliatory in tone, are confessional performances riddled with shame, excuses, half-­truths, and blatant lies. Starting from the general theme of complicity, I want to focus here...

... are hidden inside the rubber boots. service: anecdotes and dreams of their dead sons that speak of a living presence in another time and with others. These personal narratives and photographs contest the status of evidence and truth that the images...

...., pioneered some of these tactics of having absolutely no respect for the truth, taking things entirely out of context. Remember [Michael] Dukakis in the tank. You remember Willie Horton. That was Lee Atwater. He was a political genius. What kind of moral human being...

... RADICAL HISTORY/179 John Weeks and Phil Gunson, Panama: Made in the USA. Independent Commission of Inquiry on the US. Invasion of Panama, The U.S. Invasion of Panama: "he Truth Behind Operation 'Just Cause'. Philip E. Wheaton, ed., Panama Znuuded: Zmperial Occupation Versus Struggle...

...? The past? Acts of construction of the past? A present-day artist’s vision? The exhibi- tion described here occupies ground between art and history, a space that makes uncomfortable those of us for whom old fashioned archival truth claims still seem a potent intellectual and political tool. I work...

.... As the district attorney stated at a news conference one month after the murders, most people in Greensboro “feel the communists got . . . ‘about what they deserved.’ ”2 Can a truth commission operate successfully in the context of Greensboro? A key factor in every truth-seeking project...

... and the return of hundreds of exiles, demands sur- faced for a complete investigation into the operations of the dictatorship. Opponents called for the truth and punishment for the crimes of the dictatorship.34 A week after Ibáñez had left Santiago for Buenos Aires, the minister of the interior and future...

... run is the one that promotes freedom far its citizens. It is hoped that the world will someday wake up to this important truth. TIFFANYSCO. ...