Latin America: Military Dictatorships Flashcards

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Military dictatorship uruguay

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1973 after guerrilla warfare against Tupameros

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Economic facts in Argentina pre-dictaorship

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-Inflation had soared to 183% by 1975 and rose by 30%

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Economic facts in Chile pre-dictaorship

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By end of 1973 inflation was 180.3% per year

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Truth commissions and dates

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  • CONADEP 1983 Argentina
  • Rettig Commission in Chile in 1990
  • CEH in 1999 in Guatemala
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5
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Scillingo

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1995

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6
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Carlos Menem decrees helping military junta

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1990 passed decrees even though 90% of population opposed it

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Madres de la Plaza de mayo fact

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helped to identify 256 children reported missing

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8
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Women of Calama docuentary

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Patricio Guzman, Nostalgia for the Light (2011)

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Democratisation facts

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  • 2001 inter American Democratic Charter

- 1997 international law given primacy over domestic law in Argentina

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Demilitarisation factis

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  • President Alfonsin reduced the military budget by 40% in Argentina
  • By 1994, the military was 50% smaller than it was in 1976 in Argentina
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Memory facts

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  • Memory Park in Buenos Aires in 1998
  • Ixhil Historical Memory Initiative in Guatemala in 2005
  • HIJOS created in 1995
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Postmemory

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  • Marianne Hirsch concept
  • Seman’s Soy un bravo piloto de la nueva china (2008)
  • Geoffrey Maguire talks about postmemory
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