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The Politics of Impunity: The Cold War, State Terror, Trauma, Trials and Reparations in Argentina and Chile

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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 September 2022

Silvia Borzutzky
Silvia Borzutzky*
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Carnegie Mellon University
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Latin American Research Review , Volume 42 , Issue 1 , February 2007 , pp. 167 - 185
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Copyright © 2007 by the University of Texas Press

References

1. Former SOA students and instructors agree with this characterization of the course.

2. Samantha Power, A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide (New York: A New Republic Book, 2003).

3. See Peter Kornbluh, The Pinochet File: A Declassified Dossier on Atrocity and Accountability (New York: The New Press, 2003).

4. Hanna Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism (New Haven: Meridian Books, 1958).

5. Gente decente literally means decent people but it is used as a synonym of upper class people. The meaning is quite clear: those who are not upper class are not decent.

6. For an updated history, see Elizabeth Lira, “Human Rights in Chile: The Long Road to Truth, Justice and Reparations,” in Silvia Borzutzky and Lois Hecht-Oppenheim eds., After Pinochet: Chile’s Road to Democracy and the Market (Florida, University of Florida Press, 2006).

7. El Mercurio, August 20, 2005, p. 1

8. Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, p. 458.