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An issue facing transitional democracies around the world has been what to do with the security apparatuses left over from the old regime. This text explores this using true stories of torture victims in Brazil and Uruguay who, faced with the paralysis of the new regime, settled their own accounts.

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Acknowledgments Foreword I: A Miracle, A Universe II: The Reality of the World Afterword Notes 1998 Postscript References Index

A Miracle A Universe

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      Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
      Publication Date: 01/07/1998
      ISBN13: 9780226893945, 978-0226893945
      ISBN10: 0226893944
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      Anthropology Political structure and processes

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      An issue facing transitional democracies around the world has been what to do with the security apparatuses left over from the old regime. This text explores this using true stories of torture victims in Brazil and Uruguay who, faced with the paralysis of the new regime, settled their own accounts.

      Table of Contents
      Acknowledgments Foreword I: A Miracle, A Universe II: The Reality of the World Afterword Notes 1998 Postscript References Index

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