argentina

A collection of oral histories from sixty-three young people who were too young to remember the events of the military dictatorship in Argentina between 1976 and 1983, and explores the effects of the war on their lives.

Compares political repression in three military regimes--Brazil, Chile, and Argentina--focusing on political trials and each regime's approach to the law.

Examines the experiences of women who took to the streets in Argentina to protest military rule and the disappearance of thousands of people who dared go against the government from 1976 to 1983.

Analyzes the political spectacles that comprised Argentina's armed forces' "Dirty War" against its people between 1976 and 1983, and examines the theatrical productions, demonstrations, and other performances that were undertaken to resist and subvert the military.

The young Argentine artist, Marianela Forconesi, discusses the culture and landscape of Argentina and describes a painting she made while spending time on a farm.

When the falling Sky causes the Sun to crash to the Earth, Alet?n saves the situation and finds that his people and their world have been changed forever.

A collection of poems by Marjorie Agosin that give voice to the victims of the corrupt dictatorships that existed in Latin America during the late twentieth century.

Presents the history of the group of spies, Holocaust survivors, and lawyers who persued Adolf Eichmann, a Nazi war criminal, for fifteen years in order to bring him to justice for his leadership role in the killing of thousands of Jews during World War II.

A young Quechuan boy sets out on his own to bring the rains back to his parched homeland and is rewarded by a gift of carob beans that come to be prized across Argentina.