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“I picked McSherry because, first of all, it was one of the earlier books on this topic. It relies on a lot of archival material. What I found particularly interesting was her discussion of state responsibility—she’s looking at the extent to which the United States can be understood as responsible for Condor. The argument is a very nuanced one; not blaming explicitly the United States. Condor was run primarily by military dictatorships within Latin American, with a protagonist role for Pinochet’s Chile, and to a certain extent Argentina. But it does say that the United States was such a powerful actor in Latin America, and that perhaps we need a broader understanding of state responsibility and involvement, which is also an argument I tried to make in my own book.” Read more...
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