Human Rights and Democratization in Latin America - Uruguay and Chile

Zusatztext although the author does not provide a fully developed theory of transition and truth-telling! the lessons of this compelling book can be extended to other least likely cases! such as Paraguay and South Africa. Klappentext Alexandra de Brito's insightful new study analyses the attempts by Chile and Uruguay to resolve the human rights violations conflicts inherited from military dictatorships. The author focuses on how post-transitional democratic governments handled demands for official recognition of the truth about these violations, and for punishment of those guilty of committing or ordering them. Alexandra de Brito sheds light on the political conditions which permitted, or prevented, the policies of truth-telling and justice under these successor regimes. This is the first study to make comparative assessment of human rights abuse in Uruguay and Chile in this way. The author contends that these countries' experiences offer formative examples of attempts to tackle fundamental aspects of the policies of transition and democratization. This powerful and compelling new study makes an original contribution to our understanding of the key political, legal, and moral issues involved. Zusammenfassung This insightful new work analyses the attempts by Chile and Uruguay to resolve the human rights violations conflicts inherited from military dictatorships. The author focuses on how the post-transitional democratic governments dealt with demmands for official recognition of the truth about the human rights violations committed by the military regimes and for punishment of those guilty of committing or ordering those offences. Alexandra DeBrito sheds light on the political conditions which permitted - or prevented - the politics of truth-telling and justice under these successor regimes. This is the first study to make comparative assessment of human rights abuse in Uruguay and Chile in this way. The author contends that the experiences of these countries offer formative examples of attempts to tackle fundamental aspects of the policies of transition and democratization. She makes an original contribution to our understanding of the key political, legal, and moral issues involved....

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• Authors: Alexandra Barahona de Brito, Alexandra Barahona De (Associate Researcher Brito, Alexandra Barahona De Brito
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.02.1997
• EAN: 9780198280385
• ISBN: 978-0-19-828038-5
• No. of pages: 346
• Series: Oxford Studies in Democratizat; Oxford Studies in Democratizat; Oxford Studies in Democratization
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Chile, Human Rights, Uruguay, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Caribbean & Latin American, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights, Political structures: democracy, Human rights, civil rights, Central / national / federal government policies, C 1980 To C 1990, c 1980 to c 1989, Central government policies