Dictators and The Disappeared: Democracy Lost and Restored One of Five Books for the 2024 Juan E. Mendez Book Award- with Between Here and There by Francisco Letelier

The Duke Human Rights Center at Franklin Humanities Institute, the Duke Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, and the Human Rights Archive at the Rubenstein Library announce the shortlist of five books for the 2024 Juan E. Méndez Book Award shortlist: Dictators and the Disappeared: Democracy Lost and Restored is a timely look at a tumultuous period in Latin American history. Essays by Maryam Ahranjani, Francisco Letelier, Nancy Morris, Michael Nutkiewicz, Alicia Partnoy, and Natasha Zaretsky Edited by Russ Davidson and Leslie Blaugrund Kim Museum of New Mexico Press.

 I connected my work in Los Angeles and New Mexico with work in Chile  in the essay:
Between Here and There/ Entre Aqui y Alla.







The exhibit opened at the Albuquerque Museum in 2023 curated by editors Russ Davidson and Leslie Blaugrund Kim. Well deserved congratulations go to: Still Life with Bones: Genocide, Forensics, and What Remains (Crown, 2023) by Alexa Hagerty is the winner of the 2024 Juan E. Méndez Book Award for Human Rights in Latin America.



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