CIESPAL and the development of education and research in communication in Latin America by Otávio Daros

“…By reconstructing the 60-year trajectory of this Latin American center, the aim is to show how its role has been dynamic and is related to the political and social changes that have taken place in the region, notably the rise and fall of military dictatorships in South America.…”

Dictaduras Militares y Tradiciones Obreras en Argentina y Brasil by Paula Andrea Lenguita, Marco Aurelio Santana

“…The paper reflects on two decades of military dictatorships in Argentina and Brazil (mid-sixties to mid-eighties) and its impact on the restructuring of the labor movement in both countries. …”
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Las redes anticomunistas entre América latina y Asia (1954-1980) by Ernesto Bohoslavsky

“…This article studies the relationships established between South and Central American and Asian anti-Communist organizations and military dictatorships between 1954 and 1980. Not only did some of these initiatives from Asian and Latin American dictatorships and rightist organizations elude the potential interest and control of the United States government, but they were directly opposed to it. …”
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México ¿la dictadura perfecta? by Rocío  Ruiz Lagier

“…During the twentieth century, many countries of Latin America suffered military dictatorships or authoritarian regimes, however, during this time Mexico was projected as a democratic and peaceful country. …”
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Latin American Liberation Theology by Jung Mo Sung

“…Born at the end of the 1960s – in a Latin America marked by military dictatorships, a rural exodus that gathered the poor in the peripheries of cities, the Cuban revolution’s impact on popular movements, and the renewal of the Catholic Church after the Second Vatican Council – Latin American liberation theology (LALT) is a child of its time. …”
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Los Derechos Humanos y desaparecidos en dictaduras militares by Juan Carlos GUTIÉRREZ CONTRERAS

“…It concludes with an analysis of state terrorísm, which led to genocide, torture and disapperances under military dictatorships.</p>…”
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Juan Gelman: la radicalización del lenguaje como vía de denuncia poética by Eva Castañeda Barrera

“…The Latin American poetry of the second half of the 20th century was developed in a context whose complexity is given by multiple social and political processes, one of the most emblematic is the military dictatorships of the southern cone. In this scenario, a significant list of writers turned to new strategies to account for the violence exerted by the regime. …”
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Editorial: Revisiting Latin American communication and culture by Tarik Sabry

“…Hall (1987) would call it the ‘moveable feast’, transformed progressively by cultural systems around us, now intensified with globalization. ln recent decades, upheavals in social, economic, and political processes pervaded the region. Military dictatorships, civil wars in Guatemala, Nicaragua, and El Salvador, Argentina’s Dirty War, the ongoing armed conflict in Colombia and, more recently, Mexico’s violent drug war ‐ to name a few examples ‐ have all had devastating effects. …”
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Dall’isola di Solentiname all’isola di Patmos: apocalissi (dis)velate by Susanna Nanni

“…The nineteenth-century Spanish American apocalyptic discourse ñ particularly the one developed after the military dictatorships of the 1970s and 1980s ñ is revealed as a language with a strong political connotation, providing alternatives to the dominant logic, and questioning hegemonic spaces of power. …”
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De la fotografía en los espejos: una reflexión en torno a la representación del cuerpo ausente by Rigat, Leticia

“…Through the conjunction of two props, photographs and mirrors, the artist seeks to remember those who were “disappeared” through state violence in the last military dictatorships in Latin America. From a semiotic perspective, we seek to analyze the characteristics of this piece, which produces a virtual representation that requires the spectator to intervene in the work with his body.…”
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A conexão francesa: da Argélia ao Araguaia The French-Brazilian military connection during the cold war, 1959-1975 by João Roberto Martins Filho

“…<br>The article calls attention to an aspect hitherto less known in the literature about the Latin-American military dictatorships: the influence of the French guerre révolutionnaire ideas, which were developed by the French colonial Army in its action in Algeria in the 1950s. …”
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Chixoy Dam Legacies: The Struggle to Secure Reparation and the Right to Remedy in Guatemala by Barbara Rose Johnston

“…Completed in 1982, this internationally financed dam was built during a time when military dictatorships deployed policies of state-sponsored violence against a Mayan citizenry. …”
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Los Derechos Humanos y desaparecidos en dictaduras militares by Juan Carlos GUTIÉRREZ CONTRERAS

“…It concludes with an analysis of state terrorísm, which led to genocide, torture and disapperances under military dictatorships.</p>…”
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O Itamaraty nos anos de chumbo: o Centro de Informações do Exterior (CIEX) e a repressão no Cone Sul (1966-1979) Itamaraty at the years of lead: the Center of Foreign Information (... by Pio Penna Filho

“…The study aims at examining one component of the repressive system set by the Brazilian dictatorship that had a relative degree of interaction with other military dictatorships in the region of the Southern Cone. …”
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Rethinking Nuclear Cooperation in Argentina’s and Brazil’s Competition for Prestige, 1972–1980 by Christopher Dunlap

“…Finally, this article illuminates a surprising quality of diplomatic behavior of the military dictatorships in Brazil and Argentina. Against the backdrop of the Cold War, Argentina and Brazil shared nearly identical stances on the unfettered right to pursue advanced nuclear technology. …”
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Ecuador: una democracia inestable by Juan J. Paz y Miño Cepeda

“…</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Arial;">___________________</span></p><p><strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">ABSTRACT:</span></strong></p><p>In 1979, after one decade of military dictatorships, the longest constitutional phase in the history of Ecuador was initiated. …”
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O CINEMA DO TERCEIRO MUNDO SOB O OLHAR DA ANTIGEOPOLÍTICA: DITADURA E RESISTÊNCIA NA AMÉRICA LATINA by Rejane Cristina de Araujo Rodrigues

“…That analysis reveals elements of a geopolitics of resistance related to the civil-military dictatorships implanted in Brazil, Chile and Argentina. …”
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A construção de uma crise: usos da história por intelectuais argentinos na contestação aos tratados com o Chile nas décadas de 1960 e 1970 by Gabriel Passetti

“…Abstract The construction of a crisis: the uses of history by Argentinean intellectuals and the contest of treaties with Chile in the 1960s and 1970s In 1978, the military dictatorships of Argentina and Chile were close to war. …”
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“We fight for the memory of our children”: Political memory, favela heritage, and mothers of victims of state violence by Maria Eduarda Ota, Robert Mason

“…There have been extensive studies of the struggles against Latin American military dictatorships of the 1960s and 1980s, especially regarding the activism of mothers of political activists who were disappeared. …”
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Economic Dependence And Political Change In Algeria 1962-1992 by Nacer, Youcef

“…Where subert methods opf political control fail, military means are used, to destroy the democratic process, and install military dictatorships. Unfortunately, this effort has significant negative implications, for the military governments installed escalate the economic problems and invite conditions that bring tense social and political stress. …”
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