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The ‘Disappeared’: Lessons From Latin America

National Security Archive National Security Archive
We can’t help but connect what is happening in our country today to a long history in the Americas of governments’ use of enforced disappearance. Three experts with direct experience provide lessons in how to protest, to mobilize, to fight back.

30,000 Reasons: Argentines Uphold Memory in the Streets

Daniel Cholakian NACLA
March 24 commemorates the victims of state terrorism in Argentina. As President Javier Milei defends perpetrators of genocide, remembering becomes a form of resisting far-right and denialist policies.

Argentina’s Slow Crawl to Justice

Amelia Rayno The Progressive
As family members of the disappeared pass away, the momentum of the fight slows. Argentina’s media outlets don’t often cover the trials, or the ensuing sentence mitigations, so many don’t realize that most convicted state terrorists aren't in prison.

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It is Human Rights

Myrna Santiago The Stansbury Forum
An armed representative of the state who kills a civilian commits not just a crime like any other person. No, that official commits an abuse of power, a violation of human rights. The states who fail to stop violence against civilians on the part of their armed bodies are, therefore, labeled as violators of human rights.
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