Human rights and democratization in Latin America : Uruguay and Chile / Alexandra Barahona de Brito.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Brito, Alexandra Barahona de.

Series:

• Oxford studies in democratization.
• Oxford studies in democratization

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Human rights--Uruguay.
• Human rights--Chile.
• Democracy--Uruguay.
• Democracy--Chile.
• Uruguay--Politics and government--1973-1985.
• Uruguay--Politics and government--1985-.
• Chile--Politics and government--1973-.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (348 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1997.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This title analyzes the attempts by Chile and Uruguay to resolve the human rights violations conflicts inherited from military dictatorships. It is part of a series which concentrates on the study of the democratization processes that accompanied the decline and termination of the Cold War.

Contents:

• Problems of transitional truth and justice in comparative perspective and human rights violations under military rule in Uruguay and Chile
• Truth and justice in transition
• Truth and justice under successor democratic regimes
• Assessing truth and justice in Uruguay and Chile : the road to democratic consolidation?

Notes:

• Description based upon print version of record.
• Includes bibliographical references (p. [293]-327) and index.
• Description based on print version record.
• Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

• 0-19-159885-2
• 1-281-97811-6
• 9786611978112

OCLC:

922953818