63 research outputs found

    Argentina and the United States at the Sixth Pan American Conference (Havana 1928)

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    Waiting for Marcel Orphüls: The Literature of Authoritarian Rule and Resistance in Latin America

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    In 2010, at the XXIX Latin American Studies Association Congress in Toronto, the historian Steve Stern called 1970s stated-sponsored terror in Argentina a “dirty war.” An audience member self-identified as an “Argentine”, speaking for “Argentines” scolded him. “Dirty war”, he told Stern, was a term invented by the Argentine dictatorship, and as such, should never be used. Stern, perhaps the most authoritative analyst of Augusto Pinochet’s Chile, apologized, conceding implicitly that policing ..

    Cold War Argentina

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    For the period 1945-90, longstanding academic and popular narratives of Argentina have set the Cold War on the margins of important historical developments with only a few exceptions. The project that I am currently engaged in reassesses those narratives in two stages. First, it breaks down traditionally organized historical chronologies in Argentina to suggest poorly understood but crucial continuities across the decades. Second, and building on that historiographical shift, it proposes several avenues toward a new understanding of the centrality of the global Cold War to Argentine history
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