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This article proposes the concept of 'memory script' to analyse how, in the aftermath of political violence, memory activists narrate their lives in a way that is practised, repetitive and performative. Through a self-reflective life history of Aluízio Palmar, a Brazilian human rights activist and former political prisoner who suffered intense torture under military rule, this approach seeks to elucidates the personal and political contours of somebody's decision to transform their experiences into a public narrative. A close reading of Palmar's various platforms of memory-sharing reveals the complex moral reckoning of an activist's own trauma.

AbstractThis article chronicles the fifteen-month border conflict between the military regimes of Brazil and Paraguay that occurred between March of 1965 and June of 1966 – a stand-off that paved the way for the Itaipu project that would become the largest dam in the world. In the context of the 1960s Cold War, both governments saw a large-scale dam on the Paraná River as a means to catalyse industrialisation and strengthen the political legitimacy of their respective authoritarian regimes. Yet the border crisis was not a stand-off between equal powers. Brazil was the much stronger force, and, with the backing of the United States, the Brazilian dictatorship brought Paraguay firmly under its sphere of influence while also marginalising neighbouring Argentina. The border question at Guaíra served as a springboard for Brazil's rising power, and subsequently transformed the geopolitical landscape of the Southern Cone.

"A transnational approach to the history of a key Latin American border region"--Provided by publisher

Intro -- Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction: From the National to the Transnational -- The National and the International in Latin American Communism -- Part I: Bolshevism and the Americas (1917-1943) -- 1. The Comintern, the Communist Party of Mexico, and the "Sandino Case": The History of a Failed Alliance, 1927-1930 -- The Beginnings of the Pro-Sandinista Campaign -- The Formation of the MAFUENIC and Its First Tasks -- The Mexican Government Speaks Out -- The Crisis and Rupture of Relations between the PCM and Sandino -- Final Considerations -- 2. Black Caribbean Migrants and the Labor Movement and Communists in the Greater Caribbean in the 1920s and 1930s -- Communists and the Negro Question in the United States -- The African Blood Brotherhood -- Communists and Antillanos in Panama and Costa Rica -- Antillanos in Costa Rica -- The 1934 Banana Workers' Strike and West Indians -- The Comintern, CPUSA, and Caribbean Bureau -- El Mundo Obrero and the Negro Question -- 3. The "Negro Question" in Cuba, 1928-1936 -- The Negro Question in Cuba -- Defense of the Scottsboro Nine -- The "Faja Negra" -- Defense of Antillano Workers -- Dawn of the Popular Front -- Conclusion -- 4. Semicolonials and Soviets: Latin American Communists in the USSR, 1927-1936 -- Visitors to the Future -- Classifying Latin America -- Dilemmas of the Third Period -- A "Forge for Cadres"? -- The Hair's-Breadth Universe -- Conclusion -- 5. A Relationship Forged in Exile: Luís Carlos Prestes and the Brazilian Communist Party, 1927-1935 -- New Paths in the 1920s -- The May Manifesto -- The Knight of Hope in Moscow -- The Seventh World Congress, the ANL, and the 1935 Revolt -- Conclusion: Imprisoned but on the Rise.