A Chilean artist shaped by the nightmare of Pinochet subverts colonial time. Review: Alfredo Jaar: Decolonial Time and the Aesthetics of the Unfinished, Florencia San Martín, 2026, Duke University Press
Categories: Chile
Radical remembrance
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Tag: Dictatorship
Aide-mémoire
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Latin America’s need to remember a darker past is influencing literature. Review: Exemplary Humans, Juliana Leite, translated by Zoë Perry, 2026, Two Lines Press
Categories: Brazil
Soldiers of the sub-empire
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Brazil’s role in Pinochet’s coup has disturbing modern echoes. Dictatorship Across Borders: Brazil, Chile, and The South American Cold War, Mila Burns, 2025, University Of North Carolina Press
Categories: Brazil, Chile, North America, South America, United States
The death squads’ auto of choice
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Men with guns
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Coups can tell us all about democracy. Coups d’État in Cold War Latin America, 1964–1982, eds Sebastián Carassai and Kevin Coleman, 2025, Cambridge University Press
Categories: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Caribbean, Central America, Colombia, Cuba, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, North America, South America, United States, Uruguay, Venezuela
The roots of terror
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Comment: Walter Salles’ chilling warning about authoritarianism ducks the role of the US
Categories: Brazil, North America, South America, United States
Memory on film
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Documentaries offer a unique insight into South America’s authoritarian trauma. Transnational Memories and Post-Dictatorship Cinema: Brazil, Chile and Argentina, Tatiana Signorelli Heise, 2024, Palgrave Macmillan
Categories: Argentina, Brazil, South America