HIST 381 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Henry Kissinger, Carlos Menem, Ernesto Geisel
29 Apr 2016
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States used detention, torture, murder and disappearances. Politiciall right- supported by u. s because it wasn"t communism(cold war) Argentina(general jorge videla): 8,960-14k-30k, women 1/3, were between 20-30, 12% under 20. All these numbers are misleading because they were not documented. Each country used the courts in different ways: described in political (in) The violence was not a product of the politics, violence was politics. Politics and economics: guillermo o"donnell- business and economic elit shifted their investiments from productive to speculative areas-plunder economy technocratics and bureaucratic-authoritarian . James scott- seeing like a state - using natural, social, political economic and cultural mechnicasms to transform ideas in a state. Early on countries were practicing liberalism with constitutional republican government. Few people control the vast amount of wealth, these people also controlled the political system. Populist: created large support by promising access to rights, healthcare, education, industrialization- trying to mimic industrialized countries u. s,
