Dr. Francesca Lessa, the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at the Latin American Centre at the University of Oxford, joined Steven to talk about Operation Condor and the pursuit of justice and accountability for the states and actors responsible for transnational human rights crimes in the 1970s.

See Francesca’s recent article in the Journal of Latin American Studies – “Operation Condor on Trial: Justice for Transnational Human Rights Crimes in South America“

See also her 2011 monograph Memory and Transitional Justice in Argentina and Uruguay: Against Impunity

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Historias 56 – Francesca Lessa on Operation Condor, accountability, and justice

Have a listen to Steven and Dustin’s conversation with Molly Avery, a doctoral candidate in International History at the London School of Economics.  The group talks about Ms. Avery’s new article, “Promoting a ‘Pinochetazo’: The Chilean Dictatorship’s Foreign Policy in El Salvador during the Carter Years, 1977-81,”  as well as her broader research agenda.  Settle in to learn more about the transnational right and the significance of human rights in inter-American relations.

Historias 123 - Molly Avery On Pinochet And El Salvador

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Historias 123 - Molly Avery On Pinochet And El Salvador

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