J Patrice Mcsherry
Biographic Data
| ID | 728000 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J Patrice Mcsherry |
| GIVEN NAMES | J Patrice |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcsherry |
| SIGNATURE | MCSHERRY J P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Long Island University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 29 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Student Resistance to Dictatorship in Chile, 1973–1990: ‘Security to Study, Freedom to Live!’ by Richard G. Smith (review)
Ránquil: Rural Rebellion, Political Violence, and Historical Memory in Chile by Thomas Miller Klubock
Reviewed by: Ránquil: Rural Rebellion, Political Violence, and Historical Memory in Chile by Thomas Miller Klubock J. Patrice McSherry Klubock, Thomas Miller. Ránquil: Rural Rebellion, Political Violence, and Historical Memory in Chile. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2022. Thomas Klubock has amassed a rich store of information about the injustices faced by Chilean campesinos in the years preceding the historic Ránquil rebellion of 1934 and…
Beatriz Allende: A Revolutionary Life in Cold War Latin America by Tanya Harmer
Reviewed by: Beatriz Allende: A Revolutionary Life in Cold War Latin America by Tanya Harmer J. Patrice McSherry Harmer, Tanya. Beatriz Allende: A Revolutionary Life in Cold War Latin America. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2020. Tanya Harmer's illuminating book explores the life of Beatriz Allende, the oldest daughter of Salvador Allende, within the tumultuous setting of Cold War politics, widespread revolutionary ideals, and d…
El movimiento de la Nueva Canción chilena: Cultura Y Contrahegemonía
Este artículo analiza el movimiento de la Nueva Canción chilena (NCCh) como un componente integral de un poderoso movimiento contrahegemónico, que se formó en los mediados de los años 1960 y fue clave en la elección del presidente Salvador Allende en 1970. Las canciones de la NCCh no solo denunciaron las injusticias sino que articularon los sueños y esperanzas de multitudes de chilenos por un futuro de justicia social y dignidad. Simultáneamente …
B rian D’H aeseleer . The Salvadoran Crucible: The Failure of US Counterinsurgency in El Salvador, 1979–1992
Prisoner of Pinochet: My Year in a Chilean Concentration Camp by Sergio Bitar
Reviewed by: Prisoner of Pinochet: My Year in a Chilean Concentration Camp by Sergio Bitar J. Patrice McSherry Bitar, Sergio. Prisoner of Pinochet: My Year in a Chilean Concentration Camp Trans. Erin Goodman. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2017. This powerful account provides an intimate view of the fate of Sergio Bitar and other high-ranking members of Salvador Allende's Popular Unity government [End Page 226] after the 1973 military co…
Politics of Violence in Latin America
Latin America is one of the most violent regions in the world. It has suffered waves of repressive authoritarian rule, organized armed insurgency and civil war, violent protest, and ballooning rates of criminal violence. But is violence hard wired into Latin America? This is a critical reassessment of the ways in which violence in Latin America is addressed and understood. Previous approaches have relied on structural perspectives, attributing th…
Operation Condor and Transnational State Violence against Exiles
This article aims to provide a deeper understanding of Operation Condor and its lethal focus on exiles through an examination of new evidence that offers fresh insights into how the repressive system functioned. Operation Condor targeted persons who had escaped Latin American military coups and dictatorships in their own countries in the 1970s. Condor forces pursued these exiles—many of whom were under United Nations protection—using covert, cros…
The Labor of Literature: Democracy and Literary Culture in Modern Chile by Jane D Griffin
Reviewed by: The Labor of Literature: Democracy and Literary Culture in Modern Chile by Jane D Griffin J. Patrice McSherry Griffin, Jane D. The Labor of Literature: Democracy and Literary Culture in Modern Chile. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2016. In this absorbing book, Jane D. Griffin examines the impact of the Pinochet dictatorship on culture in Chile and the ways artists and writers resisted and protested by semi-clandestinely …
Hugo Chávez, Alí Primera and Venezuela: The Politics of Music in Latin America by Hazel Marsh
Reviewed by: Hugo Chávez, Alí Primera and Venezuela: The Politics of Music in Latin America by Hazel Marsh J. Patrice McSherry Marsh, Hazel. Hugo Chávez, Alí Primera and Venezuela: The Politics of Music in Latin America. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. Hazel Marsh has written a thought-provoking and original analysis of how popular song and folk musicians can generate unforeseen and rippling impacts for years to come in the politics of a changi…
The Political Impact of Chilean New Song in Exile
The musical movement known as Chilean New Song became a key mobilizing force in politics in the 1960s and early 1970s in Chile, inspiring, uniting, and motivating people in a common cause and articulating the dreams and hopes of masses of people for progressive social change. Similarly, the New Song movement in exile, after the 1973 coup, helped to generate and sustain the support and solidarity of Chilean exiles and foreign nationals around the …
The Fate of Freedom Elsewhere: Human Rights in US Cold War Policy toward Argentina ‐ by Schmidli, William M
Schmidli, William M. (2013) The Fate of Freedom Elsewhere: Human Rights in US Cold War Policy toward Argentina, Cornell University Press ( Icatha, NY), xiii + 273 pp. £39.95 hbk. William Michael Schmidli has written a useful diplomatic history of US policy toward the brutal Argentine military junta (1976–1984), particularly during the Carter administration. The author argues that Argentina became a defining case of Carter's nascent human rights f…
Impunity, Human Rights, and Democracy: Chile and Argentina, 1990-2005 - by Wright, Thomas C
Chilean Students Challenge Pinochet’s Legacy
(2011). Chilean Students Challenge Pinochet’s Legacy. NACLA Report on the Americas: Vol. 44, No. 6, pp. 29-34
Counterterror Wars and Human Rights: From Operation Condor to the Present
(2009). Counterterror Wars and Human Rights: From Operation Condor to the Present. NACLA Report on the Americas: Vol. 42, No. 6, pp. 10-14
The School of the Americas: Military Training and Political Violence in the Americas (review)
When States Kill: Latin America, the U.S., and Technologies of Terror
Since the early twentieth century, technological transfers from the United States to Latin American countries have involved technologies of violence for social control. As the chapters in this book illustrate, these technological transfers have taken various forms, including the training of Latin American military personnel in surveillance and torture and the provision of political and logistic support for campaigns of state terror. The human cos…
In Brief News from Latin America
For frequently updated news from Latin America, check our Web site www.nacla.org. Register on the site to receive our email newsletter
Death Squadrons: The French School. Directed by Marie-Monique Robin. New York: First Run/Icarus Films, 2003. 60 min. Color VHS. $390.00 sale; $75.00 rental
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Tracking the Origins of a State Terror Network: Operation Condor
Operation Condor was a secret intelligence and operations system created in the 1970s through which the South American military regimes coordinated intelligence information and seized, tortured, and executed political opponents in combined cross-border operations. Condor's key members were Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Paraguay, Bolivia, and Brazil, later joined by Ecuador and Peru. In Condor operations, combined military and paramilitary commandos …
In Briefs
The Armed Forces and Democracy in Latin America
There is much to commend in J. Samuel Fitch’s thoughtful and comprehensive book, which assesses changes and continuities in military roles and attitudes and patterns of civil-military relations in Latin America’s new democracies. The book has theoretical, empirical, normative, and policy dimensions. Fitch explores the tensions between traditional forms of military tutelage of politics and democratic consolidation and suggests “democratic professi…
Cross-Border Terrorism: Operation Condor
(1999). Cross-Border Terrorism: Operation Condor. NACLA Report on the Americas: Vol. 32, No. 6, pp. 34-35
The Military in Politics
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The Emergence of “Guardian Democracyȍ
In guardian democracy, military power endures as a check against and counterweight to popular majorities. The latent threat of military reaction has the power to shape government decision making and inhibit popular political participation
Tracking the Origins of a State Terror Network: Operation Condor
Operation Condor was a secret intelligence and operations system created in the 1970s through which the South American military regimes coordinated intelligence information and seized, tortured, and executed political opponents in combined cross-border operations. Condor's key members were Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Paraguay, Bolivia, and Brazil, later joined by Ecuador and Peru. In Condor operations, combined military and paramilitary commandos …
Military Power, Impunity and State-Society Change in Latin America
The transition from military to civilian rule in Latin America has thrown a searchlight upon the legacy of military repression from the era of the national security states, and the problem of still-powerful and unrepentant armed forces. These intertwined problems have profound implications for the possibility of fundamental change in a region long characterized by extreme social inequality and political instability. As Rouquié notes, civilianizat…
The Political Impact of Chilean New Song in Exile
The musical movement known as Chilean New Song became a key mobilizing force in politics in the 1960s and early 1970s in Chile, inspiring, uniting, and motivating people in a common cause and articulating the dreams and hopes of masses of people for progressive social change. Similarly, the New Song movement in exile, after the 1973 coup, helped to generate and sustain the support and solidarity of Chilean exiles and foreign nationals around the …
The evolution of the national security state: The case of Guatemala
(1990). The evolution of the national security state: The case of Guatemala. Socialism and Democracy: Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 121-153
The evolution of the national security state: The case of Guatemala
(1990). The evolution of the national security state: The case of Guatemala. Socialism and Democracy: Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 121-153
Military Power, Impunity and State-Society Change in Latin America
The transition from military to civilian rule in Latin America has thrown a searchlight upon the legacy of military repression from the era of the national security states, and the problem of still-powerful and unrepentant armed forces. These intertwined problems have profound implications for the possibility of fundamental change in a region long characterized by extreme social inequality and political instability. As Rouquié notes, civilianizat…
Neoliberalism: The Solution for Latin America
Why have East Asian tigers -South Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, and Hong Kong-succeeded in their economic development while Latin American countries have failed? Why can't Latin American countries emulate East Asians and reproduce their success? Two recent works examine these questions, comparing and contrasting East Asian and Latin American development experiences, sketching different historical-structural features of two regions, and detailing diff…
Strategic Alliance: Menem and the Military-Security Forces in Argentina
In December 1993, serious riots erupted in Santiago del Estero and La Rioja, Argentina, when thousands of public workers protested against economic adjustment measures and government corruption. The workers had not been paid since the previous July and had just learned that provincial government officials had granted themselves a generous raise. In Santiago, government buildings and officials' homes were burned, and workers battled police and tro…
The Emergence of “Guardian Democracyȍ
In guardian democracy, military power endures as a check against and counterweight to popular majorities. The latent threat of military reaction has the power to shape government decision making and inhibit popular political participation
Cross-Border Terrorism: Operation Condor
(1999). Cross-Border Terrorism: Operation Condor. NACLA Report on the Americas: Vol. 32, No. 6, pp. 34-35
The Military in Politics
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
In Briefs
The Armed Forces and Democracy in Latin America
There is much to commend in J. Samuel Fitch’s thoughtful and comprehensive book, which assesses changes and continuities in military roles and attitudes and patterns of civil-military relations in Latin America’s new democracies. The book has theoretical, empirical, normative, and policy dimensions. Fitch explores the tensions between traditional forms of military tutelage of politics and democratic consolidation and suggests “democratic professi…
Tracking the Origins of a State Terror Network: Operation Condor
Operation Condor was a secret intelligence and operations system created in the 1970s through which the South American military regimes coordinated intelligence information and seized, tortured, and executed political opponents in combined cross-border operations. Condor's key members were Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Paraguay, Bolivia, and Brazil, later joined by Ecuador and Peru. In Condor operations, combined military and paramilitary commandos …
When States Kill: Latin America, the U.S., and Technologies of Terror
Since the early twentieth century, technological transfers from the United States to Latin American countries have involved technologies of violence for social control. As the chapters in this book illustrate, these technological transfers have taken various forms, including the training of Latin American military personnel in surveillance and torture and the provision of political and logistic support for campaigns of state terror. The human cos…
In Brief News from Latin America
For frequently updated news from Latin America, check our Web site www.nacla.org. Register on the site to receive our email newsletter
Death Squadrons: The French School. Directed by Marie-Monique Robin. New York: First Run/Icarus Films, 2003. 60 min. Color VHS. $390.00 sale; $75.00 rental
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The School of the Americas: Military Training and Political Violence in the Americas (review)
Counterterror Wars and Human Rights: From Operation Condor to the Present
(2009). Counterterror Wars and Human Rights: From Operation Condor to the Present. NACLA Report on the Americas: Vol. 42, No. 6, pp. 10-14
Chilean Students Challenge Pinochet’s Legacy
(2011). Chilean Students Challenge Pinochet’s Legacy. NACLA Report on the Americas: Vol. 44, No. 6, pp. 29-34
The Fate of Freedom Elsewhere: Human Rights in US Cold War Policy toward Argentina ‐ by Schmidli, William M
Schmidli, William M. (2013) The Fate of Freedom Elsewhere: Human Rights in US Cold War Policy toward Argentina, Cornell University Press ( Icatha, NY), xiii + 273 pp. £39.95 hbk. William Michael Schmidli has written a useful diplomatic history of US policy toward the brutal Argentine military junta (1976–1984), particularly during the Carter administration. The author argues that Argentina became a defining case of Carter's nascent human rights f…
Impunity, Human Rights, and Democracy: Chile and Argentina, 1990-2005 - by Wright, Thomas C
Hugo Chávez, Alí Primera and Venezuela: The Politics of Music in Latin America by Hazel Marsh
Reviewed by: Hugo Chávez, Alí Primera and Venezuela: The Politics of Music in Latin America by Hazel Marsh J. Patrice McSherry Marsh, Hazel. Hugo Chávez, Alí Primera and Venezuela: The Politics of Music in Latin America. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. Hazel Marsh has written a thought-provoking and original analysis of how popular song and folk musicians can generate unforeseen and rippling impacts for years to come in the politics of a changi…
The Political Impact of Chilean New Song in Exile
The musical movement known as Chilean New Song became a key mobilizing force in politics in the 1960s and early 1970s in Chile, inspiring, uniting, and motivating people in a common cause and articulating the dreams and hopes of masses of people for progressive social change. Similarly, the New Song movement in exile, after the 1973 coup, helped to generate and sustain the support and solidarity of Chilean exiles and foreign nationals around the …
The Labor of Literature: Democracy and Literary Culture in Modern Chile by Jane D Griffin
Reviewed by: The Labor of Literature: Democracy and Literary Culture in Modern Chile by Jane D Griffin J. Patrice McSherry Griffin, Jane D. The Labor of Literature: Democracy and Literary Culture in Modern Chile. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2016. In this absorbing book, Jane D. Griffin examines the impact of the Pinochet dictatorship on culture in Chile and the ways artists and writers resisted and protested by semi-clandestinely …
B rian D’H aeseleer . The Salvadoran Crucible: The Failure of US Counterinsurgency in El Salvador, 1979–1992
Prisoner of Pinochet: My Year in a Chilean Concentration Camp by Sergio Bitar
Reviewed by: Prisoner of Pinochet: My Year in a Chilean Concentration Camp by Sergio Bitar J. Patrice McSherry Bitar, Sergio. Prisoner of Pinochet: My Year in a Chilean Concentration Camp Trans. Erin Goodman. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2017. This powerful account provides an intimate view of the fate of Sergio Bitar and other high-ranking members of Salvador Allende's Popular Unity government [End Page 226] after the 1973 military co…
Politics of Violence in Latin America
Latin America is one of the most violent regions in the world. It has suffered waves of repressive authoritarian rule, organized armed insurgency and civil war, violent protest, and ballooning rates of criminal violence. But is violence hard wired into Latin America? This is a critical reassessment of the ways in which violence in Latin America is addressed and understood. Previous approaches have relied on structural perspectives, attributing th…
Operation Condor and Transnational State Violence against Exiles
This article aims to provide a deeper understanding of Operation Condor and its lethal focus on exiles through an examination of new evidence that offers fresh insights into how the repressive system functioned. Operation Condor targeted persons who had escaped Latin American military coups and dictatorships in their own countries in the 1970s. Condor forces pursued these exiles—many of whom were under United Nations protection—using covert, cros…
Political science (25 works) · Law (21 works) · Politics (16 works) · Political and Social Dynamics in Chile and Latin America (15 works) · Law (11 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Democracy (9 works) · History (8 works) · History (7 works) · Latin Americans (7 works)