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Remembering the Day of the Student Martyrs
"As we bury our dead, we bury our Uruguay."
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Debbie Sharnak
June 2023
Fifty Years Ago Today...
Uruguay's President closed Parliament and the military officially took control over the country.
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Debbie Sharnak
May 2023
Uruguay's Mes de la Memoria
The State of Justice and Backlash Politics
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Debbie Sharnak
March 2023
Jimmy Carter's Human Rights Legacy in Uruguay
What does a small country in South America offer about reassessing Carter's overall human rights policies?
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Debbie Sharnak
Progressive Politics Live on in the Streets in Uruguay
With the electoral Left sidelined until at least 2024, grassroots organizing stands as the key line of defense against the government’s vigorous…
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Debbie Sharnak
February 2023
The "unofficial" coup in Uruguay: the Boiso Lanza Pact
Unsettling official start dates to dictatorship
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Debbie Sharnak
October 2022
A Plane Crashed in the Andes Mountains
Fifty Years Ago, a plane carrying an amateur Uruguay rugby team crashed on the way to match in Chile
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Debbie Sharnak
50 Years Since the Opening of Libertad Prison
Commemorating the inauspicious opening of one of the regime's most notorious torture chambers
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Debbie Sharnak
September 2022
50 Years On...
exploring Uruguay's experience of dictatorship in historical, international, and contemporary perspective.
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Debbie Sharnak
Coming soon
This is Uruguay in Perspective, a newsletter examining Uruguay's Dictatorship, 50 years later.
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Debbie Sharnak
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