Many Duke Authors Sign Letter to Human Rights Watch

A number of Duke University Press authors, all well-known experts in Latin American Studies, have signed an open letter to Human Rights Watch questioning the organization's recent report on Venezuela. The letter's signers write that the report "appears to be a politically motivated essay rather than a human rights report" and question its accuracy and impartiality. They ask Human Rights Watch to retract the report and commission a new one. Among the signers are Marisol de la Cadena, author of Indigenous Mestizos; Arturo Escobar, author of Territories of Difference; Sujatha Fernandes, author of Cuba Represent!; Lesley Gill, author of The School of the Americas; Jeffrey Gould, author of To Rise in Darkness; Greg Grandin, author of The Blood of Guatemala; Florencia E. Mallon, author of Courage Tastes of Blood; Jocelyn Olcott, author of Revolutionary Women in Postrevolutionary Mexico; Mark Overmyer-Velasquez, author of Visions of the Emerald City; Miguel Tinker Salas, author of The Enduring Legacy; and Steven Topik, co-editor of From Silver to Cocaine.

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human rights sign letter can be influenced by politics.. it needs to be consider the real motive