Review Essays

Topical Foci: Human Rights in Latin America

Now We Know About Pinochet, but Where Do We Go from Here? by Gerald Robert Pace

Chile Under Pinochet: Uncovering the Truth by Mark Ensalaco. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999. 296pp.

"¡Tierra y libertad!" A 100 Year-Old Echo for the Maya of Chiapas by Sharon Healey

Conflict in Chiapas: Understanding the Modern Mayan World by Worth H. Weller. North Manchester, IN: DeWitt Books, 2000. 152pp.

Darkness in Anthropology By Peter Van Arsdale

Darkness in El Dorado: How Scientists and Journalists Devastated the Amazon by Patrick Tierney. New York: W.W. Norton, 2000. 417pp.

Pinochet’s Chile: The United States, Human Rights, and International Terrorism By Todd Landman

International Human Rights and Authoritarian Rule in Chile by Darren Hawkins. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2002. 259 pp.

The Pinochet File: A Declassified Dossier of Atrocity and Accountability by Peter Kornbluh. New York and London: The New Press, 2003. 551 pp.

The Condor Years: How Pinochet and His Allies Brought Terrorism to Three Continents by John Dinges. New York: The New Press, 2004. 322 pp.

Structures of Violence: The Proliferation of Atrocity Environments under the Brazilian Military Government and the Bush Administration By Kara Martinez

Violence Workers: Police Torturers and Murderers Reconstruct Brazilian Atrocities by Martha K. Huggins, Mika Haritos-Fatouros, and Philip G. Zimbardo. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2002. 293 pp.

The Promise and Limitations of International Human Rights Activism By Rebecca Evans

Breaking Silence: The Case that Changed the Face of Human Rights by Richard Alan White. Washington D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 2004. 320pp.

A Life in the Realm of Rights: A Man and a Movement's History By Tom J. Farer

Taking Liberties: Four Decades in the Struggle for Human Rights by Aryeh Neier. New York: PublicAffairs. 400pp.

In Plain Sight? Human Trafficking and Research Challenges By Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick

In Modern Bondage: Sex Trafficking in the Americas. Edited by David E. Guinn and Elissa Steglich. Ardsley, NY: Transnational Publishers, 2003. 475pp.

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