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Memory and Transitions |
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The Conflict, Memory and Transitions program brings together
speakers from Latin America, Europe and the United States to
address the subjects of violence, memory, fear, truth commissions
and postwar reconciliation.
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Carlos
Castresana Fernández
“The Legacy of the Pinochet Case”
Judge
Carlos Castresana Fernández served in the Central
Prosecution Service against Corruption in the Attorney General’s
Office in Spain. He authored the formal complaint and subsequent
reports in “the Pinochet Case” which led to the
arrest of former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet and his
prosecution under international law. Prof. Castresana is
an expert in international legal cooperation and is currently
a visiting professor at the University of San Francisco where
he teaches International Criminal Law.
Thursday,
January 27, 4:00 pm
Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall
Analysis
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Film
Showing: The Pinochet Case
Director: Patricio Guzmán
Augusto
Pinochet, the general who overthrew President Salvador Allende
of Chile in 1973, was the first dictator in
Latin America,
or the world, to be humbled by the international justice system
since the Nuremberg trials. This film investigates the legal
origins of the case in Spain, where it began two years before
Pinochet’s arrest in England. 109 minutes, 2001.
Friday,
January 28, 10:00 am and 2:00 pm
CLAS Conference Room, 2334 Bowditch Street
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Juan
Guzmán
“Creating Justice: The Pursuit of Human Rights Crimes in Chile”
Justice
for human rights cases in Chile has been a long time coming.
Judge Juan Guzmán will discuss the progress of justice
from the time of the 1973 coup that overthrew President Salvador
Allende to the present. He divides the process into four stages:
1) the period of “absolute concealment” from 1973–78
when only 10 out of 10,000 habeus corpuses filed were accepted;
2) the period of “total impunity” from 1978–90
when a general amnesty law protected those who had committed
human rights abuses; 3) the “as much justice as possible” period
from 1991–98 when the first rulings on human rights crimes
took place; 4) the period from 1998–present when the
institutions of justice began to perform the full scope of
their duties.
A
judge since 1972, Juan Guzmán has spent the last seven
years overseeing the Chilean case against former dictator Augusto
Pinochet. He is Professor of Procedural and Penal Law at the
Universidad Católica, SEK Internacional, Universidad
de las Américas and Universidad de la República
in Chile and teaches at the Chilean Police Academy.
-Judge
Guzman's notes from the talk
Monday,
April 25, 7:00 pm
Morrison Room, Doe Library
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