Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley door pickup 10am - 7pm 3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611

  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
The Condor Trials: Transnational Repression and Human Rights in South America

The Condor Trials: Transnational Repression and Human Rights in South America

Lessa, Francesca

Hardcover

General Political ScienceGeneral World HistorySouth American History

Currently unavailable to order

ISBN10: 0300254091
ISBN13: 9780300254099
Publisher: Yale Univ Pr
Published: May 31 2022
Pages: 392
Weight: 1.50
Height: 1.26 Width: 6.38 Depth: 9.69
Language: English
Stories of transnational terror and justice illuminate the past and present of South America's struggles for human rights

Outstanding. . . . An Olympian view of the Condor system.--Philip Chrimes, International Affairs

Through the voices of survivors and witnesses, human rights activists, judicial actors, journalists, and historians, Francesca Lessa unravels the secrets of transnational repression masterminded by South American dictators between 1969 and 1981. Under Operation Condor, their violent and oppressive regimes kidnapped, tortured, and murdered hundreds of exiles, or forcibly returned them to the countries from which they had fled. South America became a zone of terror for those who were targeted, and of impunity for those who perpetuated the violence.

Lessa shows how networks of justice seekers gradually materialized and effectively transcended national borders to achieve justice for the victims of these horrors. Based on extensive fieldwork, archival research, trial ethnography, and over one hundred interviews, The Condor Trials explores South America's past and present and sheds light on ongoing struggles for justice as its societies come to terms with the unparalleled atrocities of their not-so-distant pasts.

Also in

South American History

View All