Unit 5: Extra Resources

Explore these resources to delve into the crimes and political turmoil in the Southern Cone, with insights from declassified documents, interviews, music, videos, and survivor testimonies.

Readings

Letter from DW Survivor Alicia Partnoy

For those of you who don’t read Spanish, this is a statement in support of the victims of genocide in Argentina, by the Team of Psychologists and health professionals who accompanied victims and survivors when testifying in court in Cordoba. New legislation in Argentina decides to reduce to half the sentences of the genocide perpetrators. The measure, known as 2×1, in reference to the sentence reduction has very dangerous implications.

Alicia Partnoy is now a founding member of Proyecto VOS–Voices of Survivors, an organization dedicated to bringing survivors of state-sponsored violence to lecture at U.S. universities.

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  • New Memo: Kissinger Gave the “Green Light” for Argentina’s Dirty War by David Corn

 

The readings follow the order below: 

Videos

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  • Democracy Now! Interview with John Dinges, author of The Condor Years: How Pinochet And His Allies Brought Terrorism To Three Continents.

Music

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  • “Tiburón” by Ruben Blades. Blades sings controversial song against U.S. intervention in Latin America, defending his position before playing the song.