Impunity, human rights, and democracy : Chile and Argentina, 1990-2005 /

Impunity, human rights, and democracy : Chile and Argentina, 1990-2005 /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Wright, Thomas C., author.
Edition:	First edition.
Imprint:	Austin : University of Texas Press, 2014. ©2014
Description:	1 online resource (xii, 192 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	Impunity -- Chile. Human rights -- Chile. Democracy -- Chile. Impunity -- Argentina. Human rights -- Argentina. Democracy -- Argentina. Democracy. Human rights. Impunity. Argentina. Chile. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12645312

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ISBN:	9780292759275 0292759274 9780292759268 0292759266
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
Summary:	Thomas C. Wright examines how persistent advocacy by domestic and international human rights groups, evolving legal environments, unanticipated events that impacted public opinion, and eventual changes in military leadership led to a situation unique in the world--the stripping of impunity not only from a select number of commanders of the repression but from all those involved in state terrorism in Chile and Argentina. This has resulted in trials conducted by national courts, without United Nations or executive branch direction, in which hundreds of former repressors have been convicted and many more are indicted or undergoing trial.
Other form:	Print version: Wright, Thomas C. Impunity, human rights, and democracy. First edition 9780292759268
Standard no.:	ebc3571804

Table of Contents:

State terrorism in the southern cone
The construction of impunity
Human rights advocacy
The changing legal environment, domestic and international
Precipitating events
The eclipse of impunity.