The Struggle for Memory in Latin America

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This book examines the struggles that unfolded in Latin America over the memory of the pasts of political violence experienced by the countries of the continent in the second half of the twentieth century: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, the United States, Guatemala, El Salvador, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, and Uruguay.

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Eugenia Allier-Montaño is full-time Researcher at the Institute for Social Research of the National Autonomous University of Mexico. She obtained her PhD in History at Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, France. She is the author of Batallas de la memoria. Los usos políticos del pasado reciente en Uruguay (2010). Emilio Crenzel is full-time Researcher at the National Council of Scientific Research (CONICET), Argentina, Professor at the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, and Researcher at the Gino Germani Research Institute, Argentina. He is author of Memory of the Argentina Disappearances: The Political History of Nunca Más (2011).

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