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Remembrance and forgetfulness on Lima’s “Rutas de la Memoria”
Posting has been light in this space, as I’ve been working on some larger projects, but interesting things are happening in Peru all the time, including when I fail to write about them. For one thing, we’re coming up on … Continue reading
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Tagged EPAF, Fujimori, human rights, Peru, political violence, rutas de la memoria, Shining Path
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Toward “pacification of the state” in Brazil?
Last week I wrote that Brazil’s protest movement is playing out in a country that functions in a state of “violent democracy,” and attempted to speculate on how that movement might modify that country’s volatile patchwork of violent pluralism. Now … Continue reading
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Tagged accountability, Brazil, Brazil protests, human rights, Latin America, political violence
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Blood and vinegar: Practices of violence and Brazil’s protest movement
Notwithstanding my general sense of optimism about Brazil’s protest movement, disturbing incidents have occurred on the margins that raise questions about the role that violent practices play in actors’ responses to the uprising. It would seem that the citizen-centric governance … Continue reading
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Tagged Brazil, Brazil protests, democracy, human rights, Latin America, political violence
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