Chronicle of a Childhood in Captivity: Niños en Cautiverio Político and the (Re)Construction of Memory in Contemporary Uruguay

Authors

  • Cara Levey Department of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies University of Leeds

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14288/acme.v9i3.873

Keywords:

Human Rights Violations, Impunity, Memory

Abstract

Impunity is a term that is all too familiar to the Uruguayan lexicon, often employed in relation to the gross human rights violations committed during the civil-military dictatorship of the 1970s and 1980s. However, since the mid 1990s, Uruguayans have witnessed an upsurge in the societal mobilisation around past human rights violations, as actors voice their demands for truth, memory and justice. This paper focuses on one of the most recent additions to the Uruguayan human rights movement: Niños en Cautiverio Político (Children in Political Captivity), a group formed in 2007, and assesses the role it plays in reminding Uruguayans of their recent traumatic past and the ongoing legacy of state terror in a context of continuing cultural and legal impunity.

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How to Cite

Levey, C. (2015). Chronicle of a Childhood in Captivity: Niños en Cautiverio Político and the (Re)Construction of Memory in Contemporary Uruguay. ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies, 9(3), 368–376. https://doi.org/10.14288/acme.v9i3.873

Issue

Vol. 9 No. 3 (2010): Various Articles

Section

Research

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