Stephen Phelan: Diary

Stephen Phelan: Diary https://ift.tt/aYwcF29 Emilio Silva set up the Asociación para la Recuperación de la Memoria Histórica to improve and formalise the process of recovering the desaparecidos, ‘the disappeared’. ‘That word was important in creating the association,’ he said. The term is more often used of those killed by the juntas in Chile or Argentina, and many were shocked by its being used of Spain. ‘We had progressive historians telling us: “No, no, no, desaparecidos is for Latin America.” But how is it different?’