Latin American history

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• SOURCE: Not Even Past
  11/13/2020
  

  Out of the Rubble: Doctors Strikes and State Repression in Guatemala’s Cold War

  by Ilan Palacios Avineri

  An earthquake in Guatemala, and subsequent demands for their labor, shook many medical professionals out of complacency and cooperation with the country's right-wing government at the height of the nation's civil war.

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• 11/15/2020
  

  Can the COVID Crisis Create a New Civilian-Military Trust in Argentina?

  by David M. K. Sheinin y Cesar R. Torres

  Many Argentinians have been suspicious of military involvement in civil affairs since the end of the country's military dictatorship in 1983. Two scholars ask if the COVID crisis presents an opportunity for healing and reimagining the military's role in Argentina.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  9/1/2020
  

  A Salvadoran-American Assembles the Fragments of a Violent Cultural History (Review)

  Carolyn Forché reviews Roberto Lovato's book "Unforgetting" on the transnational history of the Salvadoran people.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/27/19
  

  The grim history that Brazil’s president wants to celebrate

  Last week, it emerged that the Brazilian president had ordered the country’s Defense Ministry to “carry out appropriate commemorations related to March 31, 1964.”