17.55, Introduction to Latin American Studies, Fall 2006
Prof. Chappell Lawson
Session 13: Bureaucratic Authoritarianism in Chile and Elsewhere
Handout: Repression under Military Regimes in the Southern Cone
In Brazil
Imprisoned for political reasons
Charged with national security offenses
Investigated but not charged
Tortured
~50,000
7,367
6,385
1,918 documented; ~20,000 total
Exiled
~10,000
Banished
130
Dismissed from civil service
3,783
Banned
780
Murdered by government
~300
Repression in Southern Cone (Truth Commission figures)
Country
Murdered
Argentina
Brazil
Chile
Uruguay
10,260
300
2,279
282
Population in 1980
27.0M
122.3M
11.1M
2.9M
Use of the materials should be cited as follows: Chappell Lawson, MIT OpenCourseWare (http://ocw.mit.edu/index.html) course materials for
17.55J/21A.430J/21F.084J (Introduction to Latin American Studies, Fall 2006), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, downloaded on [Insert Date].