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The article aims to problematize the issues of memory and Transitional Justice from the context of the establishment of the Brazilian National Truth Commission - (CNV, in Portuguese). The disputes about what to remember, how to remember, and what to forget (or not to forget) can become very complex in times of political polarization. By problematizing the Brazilian case between 2008 and 2014, we seek to highlight how the institution path of the CNV dealt with legislative and empirical obstacles around memory, history, forgetting, and resentment. Methodologically, the research used primary sources (legislative and judicial documents, reports, opinions) and secondary sources (specialized literature on the subject). Using the descriptive method, we present the Brazilian transitional context and the course of the CNV to demonstrate how the tension between resentment and the right to memory and the right to truth were organized by the Commission. While the outcome of the CNV Report is relevant, the accountability of human rights violators in Brazil is neutralized by the justice system. The promise of a public policy on memory remains in oblivion controlled by political elites. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

After 30 years of the end of the Chilean military dictatorship, since October 18, 2019, Chile has faced one of the most serious Human Rights crises in recent years. The massive social mobilizations that began that month have been responded to the Government with systematic Human Rights violations against protesters. In this context, I introduce the role of memory policies on the dictatorial past, in the construction of a cultural hegemony capable of promoting and consolidating a commitment to Human Rights, having as its fi rst task to avoid the reproduction and public projection of memories that vulnerate these fundamental rights. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The work reviewed here offers an exploration and characterization around the theory of the demons and its present "reloaded" version. The theory was presented in the Prologue of the text Nunca Más (Never again), elaborated by the National Commission for the Disappearance of People (CONADEP, by its acronym in Spanish) in 1984, and became very important during the 80s as a central element for the social recomposition of the return of democracy, and started to be questioned as from the 90s. With it, the state and insurgent violence were equated in their responsibilities for unleashing terror, presenting the society as a victim of this abstract and depoliticising violence. Through its multiple paths, this work offers the opportunity to reformulate the analysis about the relationship between these types of violence in other scenarios of the region in order to think, especially, about the dictatorial processes of the second half of the 20th century and the consequences suffered in the present regarding the different ways in which the collective memory about political repression in the region was constructed. In this sense, the author dissects the reloaded version of the theory and shows how denial and the demonization of the past were revisited in order to stigmatise actors of the present, relegitimise the repressive violence of the state and the advancement of regressive social and economic policies that are currently deployed in the Argentinian territory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article provides a look into tensions, initiatives and experiences related to some of the policies of memory, both official and non-official, that have assigned meaning to the past in Colombia in recent years. A deep insight on the origins and identity reconfiguration of Sons and Daughters for Identity and Justice against Forgetting and Silence (known in Spanish as H.I.J.O.S.) a collective that has negotiated different initiatives of historical memory reconstruction, one of them referenced in the article, for more than ten years. The policies of hegemonic memory in Colombia have established constant denial and invisibility of the systematic violations to Human Rights against different populations; they have also created tension and confrontation with the historical experience of movements and collectives that, as in the case of H.I.J.O.S., negotiate disruptive memories that oppose forgetting and confront impunity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Our article contains four times that interweave in order to account for the outcome that has gone through the concept of memory and its relation to transitional justice. We therefore consider it imperative to analyze the current social reality from a special context and how such graphical situation like the domestic violence has been forgotten by its main protagonists: the citizens. This will allow us to understand our present regarding our indifference and ignorance is concerned. It also reviewed the role of history, not as a mere recorder of time, but as the architect of a construction that aims to establish ties with transitional justice so that social coexistence, not to the detriment of the state and a democracy which itself prove to be fragile in structure. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Based on the theory of ideology and methodological framework of depth hermeneutics, proposed by John B. Thompson, the text aims to analyze how the Brazilian media deals with the matter of the historical memory, which is presented in the 3rd National Program for Human Rights (PNDH-3), based on the assumptions of how the weekly magazines Veja, Época, IstoÉ and CartaCapital talked about this issue. The choice for these mainstream media is due to the fact of the influence and power they exert upon the public opinion, either directly upon their readership, or the assumptions of other media segments, in addition to exerting an important ascendancy on the discussions conducted in the political environment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article analyzes HIJOS, the human rights organization comprised of children of the victims of state terrorism in Argentina. It examines some of the distinctive characteristics of this group, particularly with regard to the ruptures and continuities with the practices of the human rights movement. It analyzes how the group emerged, shaped its collective identity, formulated its demands for justice, and tells stories about the recent past. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]