Human Rights Policies in Chile: The Unfinished Struggle for Truth and Justice

ISBN-13: 9783319852195 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 229 str.

Silvia Borzutzky

Spis treści

1. Transitional Justice                                                                          

2. Pinochet and the Politics of Destruction

Introduction

The Abusers and the Abused

General Pinochet, DINA and the Military                                                

The Courts                                                                              

Other Accomplices                                                                      

The Business Class                                                                      

The Human Rights Actors

Conclusions       

                                                                              

3. The Aylwin Administration: Doing As Much As Possible

Introduction

A Very Limited Transition to Democracy                                                  

The Executive Branch: Pursuing the Truth through the TRC           

The Military Reacts: Civil-Military Conflicts                                           

Pursuing Injustice: The Courts and the Amnesty Decree

Full Stop Laws and other Attempts to Legislate the Past                                 

Conclusion: Some Truth, but no Justice         

                                                                                                  

4. The Frei Administration and the Politics of Denial     

                                            

Introduction

Before 1998: Transition to Nowhere

The Inexistent Human Rights Policy

Failed Attempts to Reform the Constitution and End Trials through 

Human Rights Bill                                                                       

Post 1998: The Human Rights Issues are Back in Full Force                               
General Pinochet’s Arrest in London                                

Pursuing the Truth and The Mesa de Diálogo

Pursuing Justice: The Trials Begin

Conclusions: 1990-2000                        

                                                 

5. The Lagos Administration: Moving Along Multiple Fronts

Introduction

The Roundtable Report and its Aftermath

Pursuing the Truth: The National Commission on Political Imprisonment and Torture      

Pursuing Justice: More Trials                                                         

Legislative Actions: the 2005 Constitutional Reforms

Other Executive Actions                                                                 

General Cheyre: Never Again and Criminal Responsibility

Congress and the Executive: Another Failed Attempt to get Full Stop Legislation      

Conclusions   

                                                                                    

6. The Bachelet Administration: Identifying and Remembering the Victims      

                                                       

Introduction

Executive Actions: Improvements in Forensic Identification Techniques 

Executive Actions: Museums and Memorial

Executive Actions: Extending the Valech Commission’s Mandate

The Courts, the Caravan Case “again” and the Death of the General

Conclusions    

                                                                                      7. Commemorating Chile’s Bicentennial and the Coup’s 40th Anniversary During the Piñera Administration

Introduction                                                                            

The Approach to Human Rights

Judicial Reform and the Court Cases

The Bicentennial Pardon and the Promotion Agreement

September 11, 2013: The 40th Anniversary of the Coup

Conclusion

                                                                              

8. Conclusions

O autorze

Silvia Borzutzky is Teaching Professor of Political Science and International Relations at Carnegie Mellon University, USA.