Nunca Mas (Spanish Edition)

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During the 1970s, Argentina was torn by terror from both the extreme right and the far left. With the coming of power in 1976 of the first of three military juntas, however, the ruling armed forces responded to the terrorists' crimes with a terrorism far worse than that they were combating. The security forces of the military kidnapped, tortured, and assassinated thousands of human beings with impunity. Their victims came to be called desaparecidos, "the disappeared." One of Raúl show more Alfonsín's first acts upon assuming the presidency of Argentina's new civilian government in 1983 was to set up an independent commission to investigate the fate of the disappeared. Nunca Más is the report of that commission, and it presents a harrowing picture of life in Argentina under military rule. In its pages, survivors recount how they and others were seized at their place of work, in their homes, or on the street in broad daylight, and then transported to clandestine detention centers, subjected to nightmarish tortures, and kept ignorant of their ultimate fate. The pattern of abduction, torture, and incarceration which emerges from these firsthand accounts reveals an abuse of human rights not only brutal but systematic. Since its publication in Argentina in late 1984, Nunca Más has sold some 300,000 copies. And the very words nunca más--"never again"--Have become the rallying cry of a society facing squarely a tragic chapter of lawlessness and inhumanity, and its own complicity. For his role as chairman of the presidential commission, Ernesto Sábato--one of Argentina's foremost novelists, whose On Heroes and Tombs were published here to acclaim in 1981--was awarded by King Juan Carlos I of Spain the Miguel de Cervantes Prize, the highest literary award in the Spanish-speaking world. Ronald Dworkin has contributed an introduction which also takes into account the recent trial of nine of Argentina's former military rulers for crimes documented in Nunca Más. He is a professor of law at New York University and a professor of jurisprudence at Oxford University, and the author of Taking Rights Seriously, A Matter of Principle, and Law's Empire. -- Inside jacket flaps. show less

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La CONADEP tenía como misión investigar, recibir información y denuncias sobre las desapariciones de personas, secuestros y torturas que sucedieron durante el período de la dictadura, con el objetivo final de generar informes a partir de todos estos elementos reunidos. Así sucedió y la comisión entregó su documento final al entonces presidente Raúl Alfonsín (1983-1989) el 20 de septiembre de 1984. Luego, el informe sería editado en el libro Nunca Más, también conocidos con el nombre de Informe Sábato, dado que el reconocido escritor había redactado parte de su contenido y presidido la comisión investigadora.
a Conadep fue creada por el Poder Ejecutivo Nacional en diciembre de 1983 con el objetivo de intervenir activamente en el esclarecimiento de los hechos relacionados con la desaparición de personas, ocurridos en el país. El Nunca más es un claro testimonio de la necesidad de nuestra sociedad de conservar vigente el doloroso recuerdo de la época más oscura que ha conocido la historia nacional; es una demostración de que a lo largo de los años que nos separan de aquel trágico período, la comunidad argentina no ha querido distanciarse de su historia, por mucho que sea el horror que despierte su recuerdo. Es necesario más que nunca reafirmar la consigna que el pueblo argentino hizo suya a partir del título de este libro.
La CONADEP show more fue la Comisión Nacional sobre la Desaparición de Personas, creada por el Poder Ejecutivo Nacional en diciembre de 1983 con el objetivo de intervenir activamente en el esclarecimiento de los hechos relacionados con la desaparición de personas, ocurridos en Argentina. show less

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Original title
Nunca Más: Informe de la Comisión Nacional sobre la Desaparición de Personas
Alternate titles
Informe Sabato
Original publication date
1984-09-20

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Nonfiction, History, General Nonfiction
DDC/MDS
303.6Society, Government, and CultureSocial sciences, sociology & anthropologySocial processesConflict and conflict resolution ; Violence
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HV6433 .A7 .A74Social sciencesSocial pathology. Social and public welfare. CriminologySocial pathology. Social and public welfare.CriminologyCrimes and offenses
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