
Remembering the Rescuers of Victims of Human Rights Crimes in Latin America
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Carla De Ycaza teaches at the Center for Global Affairs at New York University and serves as editor of Dialogues on Historical Justice and Memory Network at Columbia University.
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Introduction: Why Remember the Rescuers in Latin America?
Marcia Esparza and Zachary McKiernan
Chapter 1: Rescued From Fear: The Sebastian Acevedo Movement Against Torture in Chile
Christopher Ney
Chapter 2: Bending the Rules: An Ambassador's Quest to Save Lives
Pascale Bonnefoy
Chapter 3: The Santo Tomás Chichicastenango's Municipal Firefighters: "Green Pines Covering the Dead Bodies"
Marcia Esparza, Stephanie Alfaro and Kristy Sanandres
Chapter 4: Strategic Rescue Responses to Genocide: The Guatemalan Case
Roddy Brett
Chapter 5: Between Memory and Oblivion: The Cases of Eureka and Afadem
Isabel de León Olivares, Maribel Rivas-Vasconcelos and Miriam Rodriguez
Chapter 6: From Rescue to Solidarity: (Re) Humanizing Relationships for Social Transformation
Jenny Escobar and Angie Tamayo
Chapter 7: Argentine Rescuers: A Study on the "Banality of Good"
Jessica Casiro
Conclusion: On the Moral Value of Rescue and Remembering Rescuers: Conceptualizing Rescue in the Latin American Context
Jeffrey Blustein
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