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This insightful new work analyses the attempts by Chile and Uruguay to resolve the human rights violations conflicts inherited from military dictatorships. The author focuses on how the post-transitional democratic governments dealt with demmands for official recognition of the truth about the human rights violations committed by the military regimes and for punishment of those guilty of committing or ordering those offences. Alexandra DeBrito sheds light on the political conditions which permitted - or prevented - the politics of truth-telling and justice under these successor regimes. This is the first study to make comparative assessment of human rights abuse in Uruguay and Chile in this way. The author contends that the experiences of these countries offer formative examples of attempts to tackle fundamental aspects of the policies of transition and democratization. She makes an original contribution to our understanding of the key political, legal, and moral issues involved.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Politics & government Political control & freedoms

• Full title: Human Rights and Democratization in Latin America
• Subtitle: Uruguay and Chile
• Author: Alexandra Barahona De Brito
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 346
• EAN: 9780198280385
• ISBN: 0198280386
• ID: 04524844
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Weight: 640 g
• Dimensions: 242 × 162 × 24 mm
• Date of publishing: 06. February 1997

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