Human rights and democratization in Latin America
Subtitle: Uruguay and Chile
By: Alexandra Barahona de Brito.
Series: Oxford studies in democratization
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 333
Subjects: Human rights -- Uruguay; Human rights -- Chile; Democracy -- Uruguay; Democracy -- Chile; Democratization -- Uruguay; Democratization -- Chile; Uruguay -- Politics and government -- 1973-1985; Uruguay -- Politics and government -- 1985-; Chile -- Politics and government -- 1973-1988; Chile -- Politics and government -- 1988-
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [293]-327) and index.
Table of contents: title: Problems of transitional truth and justice in comparative perspective and human rights violations under military rule in Uruguay and Chile; title: Truth and justice in transition; title: Truth and justice under successor democratic regimes; title: Assessing truth and justice in Uruguay and Chile : the road to democratic consolidation?