Impunity, Human Rights, and Democracy: Chile and Argentina, 1990-2005

by Thomas C. Wright

Universal human rights standards were adopted in 1948, but in the 1970s and 1980s, violent dictatorships in Argentina and Chile flagrantly defied the new protocols. Chilean general Augusto Pinochet and the Argentine military employed state terrorism in their quest to eradicate Marxism and other forms of "subversion." Pinochet constructed an iron shield of impunity for himself and the military in Chile, while in Argentina, military pressure resulted...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1477309829
• ISBN13: 9781477309827
• Release Date: December 2014
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 206 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"