Unsettled accounts: militarization and memory in postwar Peru.
Part of a special section on the struggle over the past in Latin America. The writer discusses the attempts to achieve honest accounts of the past in postwar Peru. It is considered almost subversive to challenge the official version of history in postwar Peru. Thus, struggles over memory have rem...
| Published in: | NACLA Report on the Americas Vol. 32; no. 2; pp. 35 - 41 |
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North American Congress on Latin America
September/October 1998
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