Human Rights and Transnational Solidarity in Cold War Latin America

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Human Rights and Transnational Solidarity in Cold War Latin America C r i t i c a l H u m a n R i g h t s Series Editors Steve J. Stern  Scott Straus Books in the series Critical Human Rights emphasize research that opens new ways to think about and understand human rights. The series values in particular empirically grounded and intellectually open research that eschews simplified accounts of human rights events and processes. How does the rise of human rights as a normative force in world culture relate to ideas of political community? In Human Rights and Transnational Solidarity, Jessica Stites Mor and her collaborators engage this question for the important case of Cold War Latin America. They show that human rights emerged within a broader story—the making of transnational “solidarity” values and relationships by social actors rooted in particular urgent contexts, even as they built an emerging idea of the global “South.” This fresh approach yields striking results. It flips the common idea of human rights as values and empathy emanating from the global North, while assessing how activists in Latin America, by forging an alternative transnational solidarity from below, shaped human rights and political community. Human Rights and Transnational Solidarity in Cold War Latin America Edited by Jessica Stites Mor The University of W isconsin Press Publication of this volume has been made possible, in part, through support from the Anonymous Fund of the College of Letters and Science at the University of Wisconsin−Madison. The University of Wisconsin Press 1930 Monroe Street, 3rd Floor Madison, Wisconsin 53711-2059 uwpress.wisc.edu 3 Henrietta Street London WC2E 8LU, England eurospanbookstore.com Copyright © 2013 The Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any format or by any means, digital, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, or conveyed via the Internet or a website without written permission of the University of Wisconsin Press, except in the case of brief quotations embedded in critical articles and reviews. Printed in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Human rights and transnational solidarity in Cold War Latin America / edited by Jessica Stites Mor. p. cm. — (Critical human rights) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-299-29114-3 (pbk. : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-0-299-29113-6 (e-book) 1. Human rights advocacy—Latin America—International cooperation—Case studies. 2. Solidarity—Latin America—Case studies. 3. Latin America—Politics and government—20th century. 4. Cold War—Social aspects—Latin America. I. Stites Mor, Jessica. II. Series: Critical human rights. JC599.L3H815 2013 323.098'09045—dc23 2012013284 To Patricia Pessar ...