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Debbie Sharnak @dsharnak.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

The hard right turn in Latin America, Colombia edition: from Nicolas Forsans

Debbie Sharnak @dsharnak.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

ladiaria.com.uy/politica/art... Senadores del Frente Amplio presentaron un proyecto para establecer los “juicios por la verdad”. El objetivo de estos procesos es “esclarecer las violaciones a los derechos humanos” y así “tutelar el derecho a la verdad” tanto de las víctimas como de la sociedad

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la diaria

la diaria es un medio de comunicación independiente que se edita en Uruguay.

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Debbie Sharnak @dsharnak.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

🤦‍♀️ Court Lets National Parks Keep Removing Signs on Slavery, Climate www.nytimes.com/2026/07/02/c...

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Court Lets National Parks Keep Removing Signs on Slavery, Climate

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Debbie Sharnak @dsharnak.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

If you’re at LASA, come join me for either of these panels today!

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Debbie Sharnak @dsharnak.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Hantavirus Isn’t Just a Threat. It’s a Test for Public Health Officials. So far, they're failing. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/13/o...

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Opinion | Hantavirus Isn’t Just a Threat. It’s a Test.

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Debbie Sharnak @dsharnak.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Is your semester done? Grading in? Fantastic! Time to pick up your 594 page copy of this brilliant new book by @britttevis.bsky.social

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Debbie Sharnak @dsharnak.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

This should be required reading for anyone wavering: “Measles Took My Daughter. This Is What I Want Everyone to Know.” www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/o...

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Opinion | Measles Took My Daughter. This Is What I Want Everyone to Know.

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Jessica Mack @jrmack.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

How did people imagine UNAM's Ciudad Universitaria in Mexico City before it was built? I took a dive into the archive of unbuilt plans for CU and wrote about them in the Journal of Urban History. Check out "Imagining University City" (open access!): journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Debbie Sharnak @dsharnak.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

"Kast’s appointment of 30-year-old evangelical Judith Marín as women and gender equality minister underscores his hardline stance. Marín disrupted a senate session on abortion decriminalisation in 2017, shouting “return to the lord” while being forcibly ejected by police."

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Debbie Sharnak @dsharnak.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

From the article: "Chile allowed abortion for medical reasons from the 1930s until Gen Augusto Pinochet issued a total ban in 1989 as one of his final decrees. An unapologetic supporter of Pinochet, Kast upholds much of the regime’s antiquated values on society and patriarchal family order."

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Debbie Sharnak @dsharnak.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Happy Women's History Month... www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

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Debbie Sharnak @dsharnak.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

First female Sec Gen finally??

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Josh Shepperd @joshshepperd.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

I gave a second interview with the Columbia Journalism Review (CJR) about why the right is attempting to shut down NPR and PBS, and how rural station closures will affect democratic discourse. Thanks to the excellent Lucy Schiller.

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The NPR and Colorado stations that took Trump to court.

“It isn’t just an affront to localism. It’s an attempt to reengineer thought.”

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Debbie Sharnak @dsharnak.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Kast names worrisome cabinet members in Chile.. "Fernando Rabat, who defended Pinochet in an illicit funds case, will lead the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights, which is still overseeing cases linked to the dictatorship." www.reuters.com/world/americ...

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Chile’s Kast names Quiroz finance minister, taps Pinochet defenders for cabinet

Chilean President-elect Jose Antonio Kast on Tuesday named economist Jorge Quiroz as finance minister, part of a cabinet that includes two lawyers who defended dictator Augusto Pinochet, a move that h...

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Debbie Sharnak @dsharnak.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

"But the attendant rehabilitation of one of the continent’s most infamous autocrats is a particularly agonizing setback in a country where many considered the long struggle for democracy to have been won."

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Debbie Sharnak @dsharnak.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

"Some might call his rise just one more alarming case of a worldwide trend toward nativist authoritarianism — and it is..."

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Mikkel Dack @mikkeldack.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Our Phi Alpha Theta chapter made the main page of the national website. This is what “unlocking your historical potential” looks like…

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Renata Keller @renatakeller.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Today at @rowanuniversity.bsky.social, come (lots of) rain or shine! @dsharnak.bsky.social just sent me some advance questions from her students and they are 💯. So excited!!

Flyer for Renata Keller's talk about The Fate of the Americas at Rowan University on Oct 30 at 2pm

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Debbie Sharnak @dsharnak.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

The first chapter deals with McNamara and the success of this project in overseas arenas. I think you’ll love it!

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Debbie Sharnak @dsharnak.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

It was a pleasure to review Karen Robert's book, Driving Terror: Labor, Violence, and Justice in Cold War Argentina. It's a deep history of the Ford Falcon before, during, and after the nation's dictatorship. I highly recommend getting a copy! www.h-net.org/reviews/show... @h-diplo.bsky.social

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Debbie Sharnak @dsharnak.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Take a read for yourself! (🧵/11) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Debbie Sharnak @dsharnak.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

"Ultimately, the Friends’ innovation and legacy in human rights work are its protection-based advocacy and its coalitional politics that make it worth studying from the perspective of scholarship on transnational social movements."(🧵/10)

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Debbie Sharnak @dsharnak.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

As I write, "In the context of the explosion of grassroots human rights activity and work in the 1970s and 1980s, the Friends brief tenure and limited impact was not unusual. The more famous and long-lasting groups, such as Amnesty and eventually @hrw.org are the anomalies."(🧵/9)

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Debbie Sharnak @dsharnak.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

It's a hard searched for story of one of the many, smaller human rights groups that arose in response to the massive violations taking place during the period of Argentine state terror, albeit with a short lifespan. (🧵/8)

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Debbie Sharnak @dsharnak.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

What came out of this journey is finally in published form and I'm thrilled to see this in print. "Protection-based advocacy: assessing the United States Friends of the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo." (🧵/7) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Protection-based advocacy: assessing the United States Friends of the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo

The article analyzes the formation and impact of the United States Friends of the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, a little-known but well-connected group of prominent Americans that operated during A...

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Debbie Sharnak @dsharnak.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

And we called archives we couldn't visit from all over the country and many were generous enough in the immediately post-Covid/archives reopening phase to send us scanned files as well. (🧵/6) {Shout out to amazing archivists--truly the best people!}

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Debbie Sharnak @dsharnak.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

we visited archives all over the northeast looking for needles in the haystacks. We researched any member of the group's personal papers, public documents, memoirs. We tried to interview any surviving members of the Friends- sometimes successful, sometimes in vain. (🧵/5)

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Debbie Sharnak @dsharnak.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

And after that, well, I knew I had to do more research on this group and see if anything was there. I invited that student to accompany me on the journey and learn about archival research. Over the next year and a half...(🧵/4)

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Debbie Sharnak @dsharnak.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

That summer, I was in the Ford Foundation archives at the Rockefeller Archive Center, doing research for an unrelated project, and found a series of documents about the group's founding! (🧵/3)

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Debbie Sharnak @dsharnak.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

After some more of my own searches, I still didn't find anything. The student went on to write a great capstone paper on the US government & the Madres, and I all but forgot about the group until...(🧵/2)

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Debbie Sharnak @dsharnak.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

In 2022, a student came to me asking about this group they had found mentioned in State Department documents called the United States Friends of the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo. I asked twitter for help and got no response. (🧵/1)

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Debbie Sharnak @dsharnak.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

I can't get through "I Love You Forever" without weeping, which my daughters think is hysterical. Apparently though I am not the only one. Also, Paperbag Princess is a mainstay in our house. I have gifted it to many a friend!

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NACLA Report @nacla-report.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Check out this week's newsletter for original reporting on Peru's uprising and a review of a book on Brazilian Jews. Read as well about U.S.-Venezuela tensions, Peru's new president, Milei's bailout, Guatemala's prisons, and more. nacla.salsalabs.org/oct_17_25

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What's new on nacla.org

Don't miss the latest stories from NACLA!

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Debbie Sharnak @dsharnak.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

And even though my own current book project doesn't cover Brazil, I was fun to use some research from my own archival visits (the review starts with this survey from 1968).

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