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Keywords: Human rights, Latin America, death squads, Colombia, El Salvador, Guatemala

Global Regions: Latin America

Countries: Colombia , El Salvador , Guatemala



Subjects: Government, History and Social Studies

Resource Types: Bibliography, Curriculum

Time Periods: Contemporary, Modern

Themes: Culture and Society, Human Rights, Multiculturalism

Levels: High School (9-12)

 

Human Rights in Latin America

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Resources on death squads

Warning: this lesson involves very disturbing materials and may be inappropriate for your students.

Students confront a variety of socio-political issues related to death squads. In exploring these issues, students grapple with complex questions of human behavior and try to understand the underlying forces involved. They also learn to find information at various sources, and analyze, digest and synthesize the information for presentation. At the end of the lesson, students will be familiar with various manifestations of death squads, who the victims and perpetrators are, what social forces are involved in this struggle, and how international interests, particularly those of the USA, are affected.

RETANET recommends this lesson primarily for its excellent bibliography.

 

Produced at: University of New Mexico, Latin American and Iberian Institute

Recommended by: RETANET: Resources for Teaching about the Americas

Length: Three weeks

Year Produced: 1996

Material: Online curriculum and bibliography

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