Reforming Chile

Reforming Chile
Author: Patrick Barr-Melej
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Total Pages: 316
Release: 2001
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780807849194

Highlighting the crucial yet largely overlooked role played by society's middle layers in the historical development of Latin America, Patrick Barr-Melej provides the first comprehensive analysis of the rise of Chile's middle-class reform movement and its

Martin Rivas

Martin Rivas
Author: Alberto Blest Gana
Publisher:
Total Pages: 476
Release: 1918
Genre:
ISBN:

Catalog

Catalog
Author: University of Texas. Library. Latin American Collection
Publisher:
Total Pages: 768
Release: 1969
Genre: Latin America
ISBN:

Author:
Publisher: Alberto Biglieri
Total Pages: 208
Release:
Genre:
ISBN:

Foundational Fictions

Foundational Fictions
Author: Doris Sommer
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 460
Release: 1991-05-03
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780520913868

National consolidation and romantic novels go hand in hand in Latin America. Foundational Fictions shows how 19th century patriotism and heterosexual passion historically depend on one another to engender productive citizens.

The Inter-American Human Rights System as a Safeguard for Justice in National Transitions

The Inter-American Human Rights System as a Safeguard for Justice in National Transitions
Author: Annelen Micus
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 460
Release: 2015-08-11
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9004289739

In The Inter-American Human Rights System as a Safeguard for Justice in National Transitions, Annelen Micus analyzes the importance of the Inter-American Human Rights System for transitional justice processes in Latin America, with a focus on Argentina, Chile and Peru. She examines which factors influence a country’s approach in confronting its past and addressing impunity. The emphasis is placed on the way countries may overcome amnesty laws with the support of international law in order to hold perpetrators of grave human rights violations to account. The book’s main focus is on the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, and the impact of its jurisprudence on legal proceedings and political decisions within the national transitional justice processes in the three countries.

Salvador Allende and the Villa San Luis

Salvador Allende and the Villa San Luis
Author: Patricia Vilches
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 161
Release: 2023-01-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 3031189388

Through the history of this housing complex, this book illuminates Salvador Allende’s dedication to the imperative of the right to the city for Chile’s marginalized people. Built in affluent Las Condes in Santiago, on what is arguably the most expensive parcel of land in Chile, the Villa San Luis was one of Salvador Allende’s most visible and dramatic social projects. Allende’s six-year term was ended in the middle by a military coup d’état on 11th September 1973. Yet, material culture from Villa San Luis remains to convey the legacy of his commitment to providing disadvantaged families with dignified housing. It is a national lieu de mémoire and an iconic space, a reminder of a truly remarkable innovation in social housing and of Allende’s personal and political commitment to making Santiago a just city. Postcoup, the remains of the complex also relate the wider injustice of the Pinochet regime. Many of its families were violently evicted during the dictatorship. Some were dispossessed, taken away from Las Condes in garbage trucks, and dumped in poor communities around Santiago. The land was usurped by Pinochet on behalf of the army and later sold to developers to construct high-rise symbols of a new, neoliberal Chile. Over the decades, however, former residents fought back and, in 2020, they succeeded in making its one remaining structure, remnants of Block 14, a memorialized place of justice and reconciliation. It now a national monument and museum.