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Lasting Rule: Dictator to Democracy in the Southern Cone
February 10, 1999
With the arrest of former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet last year, there’s been added momentum among international human rights groups to bring human rights violators to justice. But even as high profile figures such as Pinochet are being judged, the legacy of repressive dictatorships in South America endures, say some activists. The interests of the economic elite are now being served by what’s described as democracy, not military dictatorship.
On this program we take a look at two countries of the Southern Cone, Chile and Argentina, and how the sheen of democracy and the weight of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund effectively carry out what was once accomplished through violence and repression.
Featuring:
Tati Almeida, member, Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo; Adolfo Perez-Esquivel, Argentine Nobel Peace Prize laureate; Claudio Duran, former Chilean political prisoner and visiting scholar at the Center for Latin American Studies at Stanford University.
For more information:
ISLA - Information Services Latin America Data Center
1904 Franklin St., Ste. 900
Oakland, CA 94612
510-835-4692; fax: 510-835-3017
isla@datacenter.org
www.igc.org/isla