How the Military Remembers

Cynthia E. Milton is a professor in the Department of History at the University of Victoria and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. She is the author of Conflicted Memory: Military Cultural Interventions and the Human Rights Era in Peru and Art from a Fractured Past: Memory and Truth-Telling in Post–Shining Path Peru.Michael J. Lazzara is a professor of Latin American literature and cultural studies in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and the associate vice provost of academic programs and partnerships in Global Affairs at the University of California, Davis. His books include Civil Obedience: Complicity and Complacency in Chile Since Pinochet, Luz Arce and Pinochet’s Chile: Testimony in the Aftermath of State Violence, and Chile in Transition: The Poetics and Politics of Memory.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPART I. Refashioning Military Men in Democracies1 In the Name of the Father: Uncovering the Paternity of Military Memories of Dictatorship in Brazil, Rebecca Atencio2 Fiction, Freedom, and Relativism: Human Rights in Pinochetista Memory in Post-Pinochet Chile (1998–2019), Leith Passmore3 Heroes and Genocidaires: Retired Officers of the Argentinian Army and Their Memories of the Recent Past, Valentina Salvi4 Perpetrator Confessions and Discourses of Impunity in Post-transitional Uruguay: The Cases of Gavazzo and TrÓccoli, Mariana Achugar and Gabriela Fried Amilivia5 Military Narratives of Heroism and Sacrifice in War Crimes Trials in Guatemala, Jo-Marie BurtPART II. Memorializing Military Memories6 “The Hero of Joateca”: The Salvadoran Military’s Stubborn Memory of Domingo Monterrosa, Rachel Hatcher7 Visualizing Soldiers as Victims: Kidnapping, and Photographic Proof of Survival in Colombia, Nicolas RodrÍguez IdÁrraga8 Captive to History: Military Memories and Censorship in Public Spaces, Cynthia E. Milton9 An Unorthodox Relationship: Colombia’s Public Forces and the National Center for Historical Memory (2012–2019), MarÍa Emma Wills ObregonPART III. Inheriting Military Pasts10 The Challenges and Risks of Producing “Memory with History” Within the Peruvian Army, Carla Granados and Gladys VÁsquez11 Relatives of Perpetrators and Collaborators in Chile: Implicated Subjects, Memory, and Responsibility, Michael J. LazzaraContributorsIndex

“Examines how the militaries of Latin American countries confront truth commissions, memory sites, trials, and reparations. This book is indispensable for understanding the continent’s ongoing ‘memory wars.’” - Emilio Crenzel, author of Memory of the Argentina Disappearances: The Political History of "Nunca Más" “A timely volume. The arguments and analysis offer original perspectives on complicated processes, and the study usefully expands upon foundational sources in the field of memory studies. This excellent text is essential reading.” - Nancy Gates Madsen, author of Trauma, Taboo, and Truth-Telling: Listening to Silences in Postdictatorship Argentina