Tuesday, November 20, 2012

Why we do it

Political volatility and undemocratic practices in Latin America, as in other regions, combine with understaffed, under-resourced archives, which threaten to erase the historical materials showing people’s lived experiences of terror. With these materials buried, the historical memory of the regional conflicts will be shaped to exclude them, reshaping history, further intensifying and reinforcing inequalities.

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