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Human Rights Policies in Chile -- Preface -- Notes -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- 1 Transitional Justice: A Short Introduction -- Notes -- 2 The Pinochet Dictatorship: The Destruction of Society and the Construction of Impunity -- Introduction -- The Dictatorship's Foundations and Goals -- The Abusers and the Abused -- General Pinochet, DINA, and the Military -- The Courts -- Other Accomplices -- The Business Class -- The Human Rights Actors -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 3 The Aylwin Administration: Doing As Much As Possible -- Introduction -- A Very Limited Transition to Democracy -- The Executive Branch: Pursuing the Truth through the TRC -- The Military Reacts: Civil Military Conflicts -- Pursuing Injustice: The Courts and the Interpretation of the Amnesty Decree -- Full Stop Laws and Other Attempts to Legislate Past Crimes -- Other Executive Actions -- Conclusion: Some Truth but No Justice -- Notes -- 4 The Frei Administration and the Politics of Denial -- Introduction -- Before 1998: The Transition to Nowhere -- The Inexistent Human Rights Policy -- Failed Attempts to Reform the Constitution and to End Trials through "the Human Rights Bills" -- Post 1998: The Human Rights Issues Are Back in Full Force -- The Military's Power, the Impeachment Efforts, and the Stange and Contreras Affairs -- General Pinochet's Arrest in London -- Pursuing the Truth: The Mesa de Diálogo -- Pursuing Justice: Trials Begin -- From 1990 to 2000: Conclusions -- Notes -- 5 The Lagos Administration: Moving Along Multiple Fronts -- Introduction -- The Lagos Administration: An Overview -- The Roundtable Report and Its Aftermath -- Pursuing the Truth: The National Commission on Political Imprisonment and Torture -- Pursuing Justice: More Trials -- Legislative Actions: The 2005 Constitutional Reform -- Other Executive Actions -- Formers Political Prisoners

This essay reviews the following works:Health Equity in Brazil: Intersections of Gender, Race, and Policy. By Kia Lilly Caldwell. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2017. Pp. xii + 226. $28.00 paperback. ISBN: 9780252082474. State of Health: Pleasure and Politics in Venezuelan Health Care under Chávez. By Amy Cooper. Oakland: University of California Press, 2019. Pp. 216. $29.95 paperback. ISBN: 9780520299290. Social Policies and Decentralization in Cuba: Change in the Context of 21st Century Latin America. Edited by Jorge I. Domínguez, Maria del Carmen Zabala Argüelles, Mayra Espina Prieto, and Lorena G. Barberia. Cambridge, MA: David Rockefeller Center Series of Latin American Studies, Harvard University, 2017. Pp. 282. $24.99 paperback. ISBN: 9780674975309. Movement-Driven Development: The Politics of Health and Democracy in Brazil. By Christopher L. Gibson. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2019. Pp. 328. $30.00 paperback. ISBN: 9781503607804. A Right to Health: Medicine, Marginality, and Health Care Reform in Northeastern Brazil. By Jessica Scott Jerome. Austin: University Press of Texas, 2015. Pp. 192. $21.95 paperback. ISBN: 9781477311318. Uneven Social Policies: The Politics of Subnational Variation in Latin America. By Sara Niedzwiecki. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Pp. xvii + 256. 256 pp. $34.99 paperback. ISBN: 9781108454896. Banking on Health: The World Bank and the Health Sector Reform in Latin America. By Shiri Noy. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. Pp. 241. ISBN: 9783319617657.

Reseña de Sylvia Borzutski del libro de Oriana Bernasconi (editora) "Resistance to Political Violence in Latin America: Documenting Atrocity".

This article argues that based on Chile's 38‐year experience with a privately administered, fully funded, defined contribution system, the adoption of this kind of approach in the United States will be very damaging. We argue that this policy will be especially harmful to low‐income groups, to women, to both racial and gender minorities, and to those who have part‐time employment or find themselves in and out of the labor market. Additionally, this kind of policy does not solve the financial problems of the Social Security system. In fact, transferring either the entire, or a part of the payroll tax to private accounts will add a new burden to the fiscal coffers via transition costs, as fiscal receipts will diminish and the obligation to pay pensions to old and new retirees will continue. From the standpoint of the insured and potential retiree, the cost of administering the retirement accounts will increase, but there is no certainty that the benefits will increase due to the unpredictable nature of the market and the increase in administrative costs. Most importantly, for lower‐income groups, the redistributive effect that Social Security has today will be eliminated.

AbstractThe purpose of this paper is to provide a brief overview of Conditional Cash Transfers (CCTs) in Latin America and to assess Chile's anti‐poverty policies, including Chile Solidario and the Ethical Wage. The paper has a summary evaluation of the most important CCTs in Latin America, an analysis of the nature and limited impact of Chile Solidario, a discussion of poverty and vulnerability in Chile, and the Ethical Wage approach pursued by the Piñera administration The paper concludes by questioning the capacity of market oriented approaches to poverty reduction and argues that because poverty is a multifaceted situation, poverty reduction requires a multidimensional approach that includes at the very least educational, employment and labor policies.

AbstractThis paper addresses what is one of the thorniest issues in Chile's economic policy making today: the question of poverty and the Chile Solidario program which was designed to combat extreme poverty. The paper discusses who is poor in Chile, the problems with the existing data on poverty and extreme poverty, and the content of the program. The paper also contains an assessment of the short term effects of Chile Solidario. Based on the existing data, the conclusion is that Chile Solidario has failed to reduce poverty in the short term.