Discussion Board #5 deadline extended to Sunday at midnight!!
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This week, we look at the threat of socialist revolution and guerrilla warfare from the perspective of the right, which took control of much of the hemisphere through military dictatorships in the 1970s and 80s.
Above, left: In Argentina's Dirty War against communist subversion, the Madres de la Plaza de Mayo demanded the opening of military records every Thursday beginning in 1977. Above, right: A wounded soldier being evacuated in northern Quiche, Guatemala, in the early 1980s, during the counter-insurgency 'scorched earth' campaign designed to root out leftist guerrillas in the largely indigenous highlands.
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A fascinating interview with Arturo Alessandri, a Chilean conservative, on the circumstances leading to the coup of Sept. 11, 1973. Look also at the interviews of Duane Claridge for a soft Alliance for Progress perspective from the U.S., and of Paul Wimert for a U.S. military perspective.
The trial of Adolfo Scilingo in Spain. There's lots more on the Scilingo trial and the trial of Pinochet on the web, including this site of the Spanish human rights group Equipo Nizkor.
Courtroom reaction to the judgment last September against Miguel Etchekolatz, former police commissioner of Buenos Aires accused of murder and 'genocide' (the first time this term was officially used) during the Dirty War. In May 2006, when the trial began, Etchekolatz's defenders took to the streets.