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Just like the rest of the Southern Cone, Uruguay too lived through a repressive military regime between 1973 and 1985. Uruguay was the country with the longest democratic tradition in the region; still, it similarly fell under the spell of military rule, bearing witness to grave human rights violations, including systematic torture and mass prolonged imprisonment. At the time, Uruguay earned the macabre title of the Torture Chamber of Latin America, due to the brutality of repression;1 there, over 60,000 people were imprisoned and, between 1973 and 1977, Uruguay had the “highest percentage of political detainees per capita in the world.”2
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Lessa, F. (2011). No hay que tener los ojos en la nuca: The Memory of Violence in Uruguay, 1973–2010. In: Lessa, F., Druliolle, V. (eds) The Memory of State Terrorism in the Southern Cone. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230118621_9
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