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