Guerre froide, sécurité nationale et Dirty War

Abstract

Despite of the growing success achieved by digital humanities, we often forgot that on-line documentation about gloomy periods of recent history played a causal role for latinamerican countries. Such is the case for so-called declassified documents, which offer a new knowledge about Cold War decades and bring back a formerly not mentionned hemispheric dimension. National Security dictadorships, the Condor Operation and another violent events (may 68 in Mexico) or interventions (Pigs Bay in Cuba), repression and even genocide (Guatemala) are central facts within the tragical list of present times dark events. So this essay deals with a critical and outline approach to theses sources to estimates its impact on the haunting past knowledge and memory, from the historical research point of view as from human rights politics in Latin America.

Keywords

• United States
• Cold War
• Dirty War
• National Security
• Dictatorships
• Human Rights