Reexaminando los golpes de estado en la tardía Guerra fría en América Latina.

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Coups d’état, Latin America, Cold War, Military Dictatorships, Political Violence, State Terrorism.

Abstract

The latest wave of coups d’état in Latin America has shaped the current reality in the region. Resulting from extensive collective research on the historical roots of this phenomenon during the late Cold War, this article has a dual purpose, one historiographic and the other methodological. The first involves a reevaluation of the various factors that influenced the rise to power of the military in nine countries between 1964 and 1982. The second purpose is to demonstrate the productivity of formulating the same set of questions for the entire subcontinent, so that the answers reveal both the similarities and differences of each national process

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Author Biographies

Sebastián CARASSAI, Center for Intellectual History - University of Quilmes

Sebastián Carassai holds a Ph.D. in History (Indiana University), is a regular professor of Introduction to Knowledge of Society and the State (University of Buenos Aires), professor of the Master's Degree in Intellectual History (Universidad Nacional de Quilmes) and researcher at CONICET. He has been a fellow of the National Humanities Center and the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (Harvard University) and a visiting professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Duke University, among others. He is the author of The Argentine Silent Majority. Middle Classes, Politics, Violence and Memory in the Seventies (2014); a version of that book in Spanish, The Seventies of Common People. The Naturalization of Violence (2013); What We Don't Know About Malvinas. The Islands, Their People and Us Before the War (2022); and co-editor of Coups d'Etat in Cold War Latin America 1964-1982 (2024). In 2016 he received the Konex Prize in Humanities.

Kevin COLEMAN, History Department- University of Toronto

Kevin Coleman is an associate professor of history at the University of Toronto. He is the author of A Camera in the Garden of Eden (2016) and co-editor of Capitalism and the Camera (2021) (Chinese edition: 資本主義與相機－論攝影及榨取 [2024]) and Coups d’État in Cold War Latin America, 1964-1982 (2024). His research has been funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). Coleman is the director and screenwriter of Stolen Photo, a documentary that links physical and archival violence, the murder of banana workers in the 1928 strike, and the historical oblivion that allows bananas to continue being produced at a cheap price. Stolen Photo was co-produced by Señal Colombia/RTVC and supported by the National Film Board of Canada.

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Published

2025-01-08

Issue

No. 137 (2024)

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ARTICLES

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