NACLA Report on the Americas, Volume 56, Issue 2 (2024)

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EDITOR’S NOTE

Editorial
The Violence of Absence
Jorge E. Cuéllar
Pages: 107-109
Published online: 29 May 2024
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AROUND THE REGION

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Calls Grow to Cut Military and Commercial Ties with Israel
Despite pressure from below, even the most pro-Palestine Latin American leaders have struggled to go from diplomatic spats to boycotting, divesting from, and sanctioning the Israeli government.
Gabe Levine-Drizin
Pages: 110-115
Published online: 29 May 2024
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“We Will Not Be Silenced by Our Executioners”
In a Colombian community long dedicated to nonviolence and environmental defense, two recent murders underline the challenges facing the leftist government’s plans for lasting peace.
Moira Birss
Pages: 116-121
Published online: 29 May 2024
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REPORT

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“You’re One of the Disappeared?” How I Came to Accept My Place in History
Nelson de Witt & Roberto Coto
Pages: 122-129
Published online: 29 May 2024
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Guatemala’s Death Squad Dossier on Trial
More than 20 years after a bombshell intelligence log of dictatorship-era abductions and executions came to light, justice hangs in the balance. Families of the victims are still searching for answers.
Roman Gressier
Pages: 130-136
Published online: 29 May 2024
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Tracking Absence Through Presence at Colombia’s Palace of Justice
Among the unanswered questions about the military’s response to the 1985 attack on the seat of the judiciary is what happened to the disappeared victims. New research sheds light on the unknowns, including how an unassuming museum was part of the story.
Oscar Pedraza
Pages: 137-145
Published online: 29 May 2024
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Reappearing the Memory of Mexico’s Twice Disappeared
As the government hides the staggering proportions of Mexico’s forensic crisis, the searching families of El Bosque de la Esperanza take control of their own narratives to resist stigmatization and erasure.
Sergio Beltrán-García
Pages: 146-153
Published online: 29 May 2024
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Femicidal Disappearance in Peru
In struggles for justice, from the abuses of the armed conflict to gender violence today, impunity for crimes against women remains a constant. Silencing, too, is a violent form of disappearance.
María Eugenia Ulfe
Pages: 154-161
Published online: 29 May 2024
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Lineages of Resistance, from the Mothers and Grandmothers to Mass Feminist Struggles
As a far-right, denialist government threatens to roll back hard-won gains, Argentine feminists and the mothers and grandmothers fighting for justice for the disappeared remain linked in a decades-old friendly bond of struggle.
Malena Nijensohn & Luciana Serrano
Pages: 162-169
Published online: 29 May 2024
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In Argentina, Trans Victims Refuse to Be Erased from History
As a present-day hate crime recalls the violence of decades past, trans survivors—long forgotten in the archives of dictatorship-era state terrorism—finally get their day in court.
Gary Nunn
Pages: 170-174
Published online: 29 May 2024
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Art Against Forgetting
When the story of forced disappearance in Mexico is told through statistics, it lacks a beginning and an end. Artistic practices of resistance seek to make absences visible.
Leonardo Aranda Brito & Dora Ytzell Bartilotti Bigurra
Pages: 175-182
Published online: 29 May 2024
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Documenting the Disappeared
How do we compel more people to care about missing migrants? Anthropologist Jason De León calls for innovative storytelling and pushing the boundaries of academic study.
Jorge E. Cuéllar & Jason De León
Pages: 183-191
Published online: 29 May 2024
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Garífuna Land Defenders Fight to Survive Extermination
For community leaders, the violence and displacement facilitating profit-driven land grabs along Honduras’s Caribbean coast is nothing short of a genocide against Garífuna people.
Kenny Castillo & Cristian Padilla Romero
Pages: 192-197
Published online: 29 May 2024
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In Colombia, Ex-Combatants Dig for Truth in the Aftermath of Conflict
In the wake of the peace accords, the memories of former FARC rebels are one piece in a complex puzzle of locating the disappeared. In their search, they also find reconciliation and repair.
Jhon León & Anna Wherry
Pages: 198-204
Published online: 29 May 2024
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Blind Spots in the Archive of Ecocidal War
Following archives of images, military documents, and governmental agencies reveals the role of herbicides in u.S.-backed counterinsurgency campaigns across Latin America and beyond.
Hannah Meszaros Martin
Pages: 205-213
Published online: 29 May 2024
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Interview
From State of War to State of Exception
Arbitrary detentions under el Salvador’s draconian crackdown on crime have recalled painful histories of forced disappearance. Salvadoran human rights defenders and organizers connect the dots of state violence, past and present.
Yaneth Martínez, Ana Julia Escalante, Jaime López, Pablo Benítez & Jorge E. Cuéllar
Pages: 214-223
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ARTS AND REVIEWS

Book Review
Rufina Amaya
Maryam Ivette Parhizkar
Page: 224
Published online: 29 May 2024
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Truth Commission
Ojo Taiye
Page: 225
Published online: 29 May 2024
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Ice
Daniel Borzutzky
Pages: 226-227
Published online: 29 May 2024
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Review of Until I Find You: Disappeared Children and Coercive Adoptions in Guatemala
Julie Gibbings
Pages: 228-229
Published online: 29 May 2024
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Review of Who Killed Marta Ugarte? Poems in memory of the victims of Augusto Pinochet
Sara Abadía Alvarado
Pages: 230-232
Published online: 29 May 2024
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