Tracing the Dirty War's Disappeared
The Documents ofOperación Diamante
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5710436 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Adela Cedillo (0000-0002-8597-2719, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 71-90 |
| Publication date | 2013-07-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Iberian and Latin American Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1326-0219 • E-ISSN: 2151-9668 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13260219.2013.805722 |
| OpenAlex | W1992576679 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
The purpose of this paper is to illustrate how documents generated as a result of the cooperation between the secret police and the military provide evidence of human rights violations committed during Mexico's dirty war in the sixties and seventies. The paper analyses three cases concerning militants belonging to the National Liberation Forces (FLN), detained and ‘disappeared’ during a counterinsurgency operation called Operación Diamante. The reports reveal that the military made arrests without legal authorisation, and instead of presenting prisoners to the authorities for prosecution, transferred them to clandestine military prisons. Identification cards provide a face for the ‘disappeared’. Evidence such as these secret police files have led victims' relatives to file formal legal complaints about the ‘forced disappearance’ of their loved ones
Authorization · Computer security · Criminology · Political science · Sociology · Spanish Civil War · Computer Science · Law · Memory, violence, and history · Political and Social Dynamics in Chile and Latin America
| Citations per year | 1 |
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| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |