Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-51735-5 - The Politics of Exile in Latin America Mario Sznajder and Luis Roniger Frontmatter More information The Politics of Exile in Latin America The Politics of Exile in Latin America addresses exile as a major mechanism of institutional exclusion used by all types of governments in the region against their own citizens, while at the same time these governments often provided asylum to aliens fleeing persecution. The work is the first systematic analysis of Latin American exile on a continental and transnational basis and on a long-term perspective. It traces variations in the saliency of exile among different expelling and receiving countries; across different periods; with different paths of exile, both elite and massive; and under authoritarian and democratic contexts. The project integrates theoretical hindsight and empirical findings, analyzing the importance of exile as a recent and contemporary phenomenon, while reaching back to its origins and phases of development. It also addresses presidential exile, the formation of Latin American communities of exiles worldwide, and the role of exiles in shaping the collective identities of these countries. Mario Sznajder holds the Leon Blum Chair in Political Science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is also Research Fellow at the Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace. Among his works are the books The Birth of Fascist Ideology (with Zeev Sternhell and Maia Asheri), Constructing Collective Identities and Shaping Public Spheres: Latin American Paths (coedited with Luis Roniger), and The Legacy of Human Rights Violations in the Southern Cone: Argentina, Chile and Uruguay (with Luis Roniger). He has also published numerous articles on Fascism, democracy, and human rights. Luis Roniger is Reynolds Professor of Latin American Studies at Wake Forest University. A comparative political sociologist, Roniger’s publications include books such as Patrons, Clients and Friends (with Shmuel N. Eisenstadt), Hierarchy and Trust in Modern Mexico and Brazil, The Legacy of Human Rights Violations in the Southern Cone (with Mario Sznajder), The Collective and the Public in Latin America (coedited with Tamar Herzog), and Globality and Multiple Modernities (coedited with Carlos Waisman). He is currently completing a book on Transnational Politics in Central America. © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-51735-5 - The Politics of Exile in Latin America Mario Sznajder and Luis Roniger Frontmatter More information The Politics of Exile in Latin America MARIO SZNAJDER Hebrew University of Jerusalem LUIS RONIGER Wake Forest University © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-51735-5 - The Politics of Exile in Latin America Mario Sznajder and Luis Roniger Frontmatter More information cambridge university press Cambridge, New York, Melbourne, Madrid, Cape Town, Singapore, São Paulo, Delhi Cambridge University Press 32 Avenue of the Americas, New York, ny 10013-2473, usa www.cambridge.org Information on this title: www.cambridge.org/9780521517355 © Mario Sznajder and Luis Roniger 2009 This publication is in copyright. Subject to statutory exception and to the provisions of relevant collective licensing agreements, no reproduction of any part may take place without the written permission of Cambridge University Press. First published 2009 Printed in the United States of America A catalog record for this publication is available from the British Library. Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication data Sznajder, Mario. The politics of exile in Latin America / Mario Sznajder, Luis Roniger. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. isbn 978-0-521-51735-5 (hardback) 1. Exile (Punishment) – Latin America. 2. Exiles – Psychology. 3. Exiles – Social conditions. 4. Statelessness – Latin America. 5. Latin America – Politics and government. I. Roniger, Luis, 1949– II. Title. III. Series. hv9310.5.s96 2009 325 .21 – dc22 2009000952 isbn 978-0-521-51735-5 hardback Cambridge University Press has no responsibility for the persistence or accuracy of urls for external or third-party Internet Web sites referred to in this publication and does not guarantee that any content on such Web sites is, or will remain, accurate or appropriate. Information regarding prices, travel timetables, and other factual information given in this work are correct at the time of first printing, but Cambridge University Press does not guarantee the accuracy of such information thereafter. © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-51735-5 - The Politics of Exile in Latin America Mario Sznajder and Luis Roniger Frontmatter More information To Shmuel N. Eisenstadt and Zeev Sternhell, in deep appreciation of their scholarship, intellectual wisdom, and public commitment © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-51735-5 - The Politics of Exile in Latin America Mario Sznajder and Luis Roniger Frontmatter More information Contents Acknowledgments List of Acronyms Introduction: The Politics of Exile 1 2 3 Defining the Exilic Condition Prevailing Approaches Translocation, Displacement Analytical Dimensions Forceful Exclusion and the Will to Retain Control of Life Decisions Moving into Exile The Impaired yet Persistent Will to Return Research Lines Forceful Displacement, the Construction of Collective Identities, and State Formation Banishment as a Portuguese Colonial Practice Spanish Americas: Practices of Expulsion Constructing Collective Identities from Afar Expatriation and the New States Forceful Translocation as Tactical Movement Territorial Identities in Undefined Boundaries Confrontational Politics and Expatriation Factionalism and Elites Transregional Political Dynamics The Format of Early Exile The Three-Tiered Format of Early Exile Returning to the Homeland The Construction of Collective Imageries page ix xi 1 11 13 16 20 23 29 31 36 40 40 41 45 49 51 55 58 62 67 73 73 76 78 vii © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-51735-5 - The Politics of Exile in Latin America Mario Sznajder and Luis Roniger Frontmatter More information Contents viii Exile and New State Identities Politics of Exit 4 5 6 7 8 Sites of Exile Selecting Factors Early Asylum in the Americas: Chile as a Site of Exile Exiles in the City of Light Mexico and Its Tradition of Asylum Conclusion Widening Exclusion and the Four-Tiered Structure of Exile Massive Exile: The Counterface of Political Inclusion Asylum and the Protection of Persecuted Individuals The Emergence of a Four-Tiered Structure of Exile Patterns of Exile Escape and Exile Serial Exile Exile Communities, Activism, and Politics Communities of Exiles Brazilian Exiles: Between Elite Exile and Revolutionary Activism The Argentine Diaspora: Debating Political Strategies and Struggle The Chilean Diaspora: Political Mobilization and Openness to Global Trends The Uruguayan Diaspora: Blending Economic and Political Motivations The Exile Communities and the Centrality of the Fourth Tier Presidents in Exile The Return of the Dead Circumstances of Exile The Impact of Presidential Exile Timing, Duration, and Trends of Presidential Exile Exile and Expatriation, Expulsion and Reception Is Return the End of Exile? The Impact of Exile Exiled Women and Gender Undoing Institutional Exclusion Returning from Exile The Possibility of Undoing Exile Redressing the Evils of Exile Present and Future Exile Conclusions Bibliography Index © Cambridge University Press 83 88 91 91 93 105 117 133 136 136 146 152 162 169 183 193 193 195 207 229 243 252 257 260 264 265 273 278 286 287 293 297 301 308 312 314 319 325 347 www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-51735-5 - The Politics of Exile in Latin America Mario Sznajder and Luis Roniger Frontmatter More information Acknowledgments We owe a debt of gratitude to many individuals and institutions that contributed in various ways to the completion of this work. We are indebted to the Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace, the Consejo de Investigaciones Cientı́ficas of Spain in Madrid, the Davis Center for International Relations, the Aims Byudks Research Fund and the Shain Center for Research in the Social Sciences of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the Social and Behavioral Sciences Fund of Wake Forest University, and the U.S.-Israel Bi-National Science Foundation for their support at different stages of the work. Special thanks are due to those who shared their experiences and hindsight with us, particularly the late Daniel Recanati, Elda González, Pablo Yankelevich, Clara Obligado, Mempo Giardinelli, Mauricio Frajman, Laurence Whitehead, Pinchas Avivi, Claudia Garcı́a, Alan Angell, former Israeli ambassador Benjamin Oron, Yehuda Dominitz, Ran Curiel, Blas Matamoros, Abrasha Rotemberg, Adriana Muñoz, Arnoldo Liberman, Maria Luiza Tucci Carneiro, Tulio Halperin Donghi, Nora Bendersky, Ingrid Hecker, Orit Gazit, Ifat Bachrach, Avital Appel, Yuval Ben-Dov, Esther Lifshitz, Gustavo Silva, Fanny Muldman, Carlos Fuentes, Batia Siebzehner, Samuel Ouman, Nahum Solan, Leonardo Senkman, Florinda Goldberg, the late Dr. Mario Cohen, the late Daniel Moore, and librarians Brenda Golan, Regina Gruzman, and Amnon Ben-Arieh. Interviews with former president of Brazil Professor Fernando Henrique Cardoso and former president of Chile Professor Ricardo Lagos were particularly instructive. We are grateful to the directors and staff of the following institutions and libraries: the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam, the Library of the Iberoamerican Institute of the Prussian Heritage Foundation in Berlin, the CIEMI-Centre d’Information et d’Etudes sur les Migrations Internationales in Paris, the Library of Congress in Washington, the National Library of Argentina, the National Library of Santiago de Chile, the Bodleian Library of the University of Oxford, the National Library in San José de Costa Rica, Cuba’s National Library in Havana, the National Archives of Israel in Jerusalem, the library of the Ministry of Interior of Spain ix © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-51735-5 - The Politics of Exile in Latin America Mario Sznajder and Luis Roniger Frontmatter More information Acknowledgments x in Madrid, the FASIC and the Biblioteca del Congreso in Chile, the Library of the Center for Latin American Studies at the University of Cambridge, and the Fondazione Lelio and Lili Basso in Rome, Italy. We are indebted to Tamar Soffer of the Department of Geography of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem for her elaboration of the maps included in this book, and to Ronit Nirel and Bella Vakolenko-Lagun, of the Applied Statistics Laboratory of Jerusalem, for their advice and work on the statistical elaborations of the book. We would also like to thank Irina Babchenko of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Ronit Sasson of the Department of Political Science of the Hebrew University. The research assistance of Haim Portnoy, Nathan Brener, Leandro Kierszenbaum, Yaara Angres, Deby Babis, Caroline Kaplan, Andrés Lindner, Hillen Meirovich, Peter Morris, Melissa Velarde, and Orly Haimovich, at various stages of this project, is kindly acknowledged. We are also grateful to Eric Crahan, Editor of History and Politics at Cambridge University Press, who invested his talent and energy in bringing this project to completion. Parts of this work were presented in several forums and later appeared as articles in Journal of Latin American Studies, 37 (2005), Soziologia Israelit, 6 (2005), Revista de Ciencia Polı́tica, 27 (2007), Latin American Perspectives, 34 (2007), and Estudios Interdisciplinarios de América Latina y el Caribe, 18 (2007), we gratefully acknowledge these journals for granting us permission to reproduce parts of them here.1 We are indebted as well to all those who commented on this work in seminars at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2003, the Department of Political Science of Wake Forest University in 2004, and the University of São Paulo in 2005; at the conference of the Centro de Documentación e Investigación de la Cultura de Izquierdas in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in August 2005; at the International Political Science World Congress in Fukuoka, Japan, in July 2006; at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México in Mexico in August–September 2006; at the annual meetings of the Chilean Association of Political Science at the Catholic University of Santiago in November 2006; at the MACLAS annual meetings in Reading in March 2007; at the Social Sciences Seminar of WFU in September 2007; at the Latin American Studies Association Conference in Montreal in September 2007; and at the Second International Congress on the Analysis of Genocidal Social Practices, held at the Universidad Tres de Febrero in Buenos Aires in November 2007. 1 Thanks are due to the following: Cambridge University Press, for using materials from “From Argentina to Israel: Escape, Evacuation and Exile.” Journal of Latin American Studies, 37, 2 (2005): 351–377; the Israeli Sociological Association, for using “Israel and the Escape of the Victims of Military Repression in Argentina (1976–1983).” Israeli Sociology, 6, 2 (2005): 233– 263; Sage Publications, for “Political Exile in Latin America.” Latin American Perspectives, 34, 4 (2007): 7–30; the Instituto de Historia y Cultura de América Latina of the School of History of Tel Aviv University, for “Los antecedentes coloniales del exilio polı́tico y su proyección en el siglo 19.” Estudios Interdisciplinarios de América Latina y el Caribe, 18, 2 (2007): 31–51; and the Catholic University of Chile, for “Exile Communities and Their Differential Institutional Dynamics: A Comparative Analysis of the Chilean and Uruguayan Political Diasporas.” Revista de Ciencia Polı́tica (Chile), 27, 1 (2007): 43–66. © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-51735-5 - The Politics of Exile in Latin America Mario Sznajder and Luis Roniger Frontmatter More information List of Acronyms AAA ACHA ACNUR AD AGELA AHSDREM ALN APE APEC APRA ARDI CADHU CAFRA CAIS CAS CBA Alianza Anticomunista Argentina/Argentine Anti-Communist Alliance Acción Chilena Anticomunista/Chilean Anti-Communist Action Alto Comisionado de las Naciones Unidas para los Refugiados; Spanish acronym for UNHCR: Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Acción Democrática/Democratic Action (Social Democratic Party of Venezuela) Asociación General de Estudiantes Latinoamericanos/General Association of Latin American Students Archives of the Foreign Affairs Ministry of Mexico Ação Libertadora Nacional/National Liberation Organization (Brazil) Acuerdo Paraguayo en el Exilio/Paraguayan Accord in Exile Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Alianza Popular Revolucionaria Americana/American Popular Revolutionary Alliance (Peru) Alianza Revolucionaria de Izquierda/Revolutionary Alliance of the Left (Colombia and Venezuela) Centro de Abogados por los Derechos Humanos/Lawyers’ Center for Human Rights (Argentina) Comité Anti-Fascista contra la Represión en Argentina/Anti-Fascist Committee against Repression in Argentina (Italy) Centre Argentine d’Information et Solidarité/Argentinean Center of Information and Solidarity (France) Comisión Argentina de Solidaridad/Argentinian Solidarity Commission (Mexico) Comitê Brasil pela Anistia/Brazilian Committee for Amnesty (Brazil) xi © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-51735-5 - The Politics of Exile in Latin America Mario Sznajder and Luis Roniger Frontmatter More information xii List of Acronyms CCHR CDPPU Chile Committee for Human Rights (United Kindgdom) Comité de Défense de Prisonniers Politiques en Uruguay/Committee for the Defense of Political Prisoners in Uruguay (France) CELS Centro de Estudios Legales y Sociales/Center of Legal and Social Studies (Argentina) CEP Conferencia Episcopal Paraguaya/Assembly of Paraguayan Bishops (Paraguay) CEPAL Comisión Económica para América Latina/Economic Commission for Latin America (ECLA) CEPAR Center for Psykosocialt Arbejde med Flygtninge og Indvandrere/Centre for Psychosocial Assistance to Refugees and Immigrants (Denmark) CIDE Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económica/Center of Economic Research and Teaching (Mexico) CIMADE Comité inter-mouvements auprès des evacués/Comité Inter-Movimientos por los Evacuados/Inter-Movements Committee for Refugees (France) CIPAE Comité de Iglesias para Ayudas de Emergencias/Council of Churches for Emergency Help CNR Comisión Nacional de Repatriación/National Commission of Repatriation (Uruguay) CNRAE Comisión Nacional de Retorno de Argentinos en el Exterior/National Commission for the Return of Argentines Abroad (Argentina) CODEPU Corporación de Promoción y Defensa de los Derechos del Pueblo/Corporation for the Promotion and Defense of People’s Rights (Chile) COLAT Colectivo Latinoamericano de Trabajo Psicosocial/Latin American Collective of Psychosocial Work (Belgium) COMAR Comisión Mexicana de Ayuda a Refugiados/Mexican Commission of Aid to Refugees (Mexico) CONADEP Comisión Nacional Sobre la Desaparición de Personas/National Commission of Inquiry on the Disappeared (Argentina) CONAR Comisión National de Ayuda a Refugiados/National Commission of Aid to Refugees (Chile) COPEI Comité de Organización Polı́tica Electoral Independiente/Committee of Independent Electoral Political Organization (Venezuela) CORFO Corporación de Fomento/Development Corporation (Chile) CO.SO.FAM Comision de Solidaridad con Familiares de Presos y Desaparecidos en la Argentina/Commission of Solidarity with Family Members of Prisoners and Disappeared Persons in Argentina © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-51735-5 - The Politics of Exile in Latin America Mario Sznajder and Luis Roniger Frontmatter More information List of Acronyms COSPA CUT DAS DC DIEX DINA DOPS ERP ESMA FASIC FLACSO GAAEF GDR ICJ IGO IISG ILO ILPES INE INSEE JA MAPAM MAPU MAPU-OC MDP xiii Comité Argentino de Solidaridad con el Pueblo Argentino/Argentinean Committee of Solidarity with the Argentinean People (Mexico) Central Única de Trabajadores/Workers’ Union Organization (Chile) Departamento Administrativo de Seguridad/Administrative Department of Security (Colombia) Democracia Cristiana/Christian Democracy (Chile, Italy) Dirección Nacional de Identificación y Extranjerı́a/National Directorate of Foreigners and Identification (Venezuela) Dirección Nacional de Inteligencia/National Intelligence Directorate (Chile) Delegacia de Ordem Polı́tica e Social/Department of Political and Social Order (Brazil) Ejército Revolucionario del Pueblo/People’s Revolutionary Army (Argentina) Escuela de Mecánica de la Armada/Navy Mechanics School (Argentina) Fundación de Ayuda Social de las Iglesias Cristianas/Social Aid Foundation of the Christian Churches (Chile) Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales/Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences Groupe d’avocats argentines exiles en France/Group of Argentinean Lawyers Exiled in France German Democratic Republic (also known popularly as East Germany, 1949–1990) Institute of Contemporary Jewry of Jerusalem (Israel) international governmental organization International Institute of Social History (Netherlands) UN International Labor Organization Instituto Latinoamericano de Planificación Económica y Social/Latin American Institute of Social and Economic Plannning attached to CEPAL-ECLA Instituto Nacional de Estadı́stica/National Institute of Statistics (Spain and other countries) Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques/ National Institute for Statistics and Economics (France) Jewish Agency Mifleguet Poalim Meuhedet/United Workers Party (Israel) Movimiento de Acción Popular Unitaria/Movement of United Popular Action (Chile) Movimiento de Acción Popular Unitaria Obrero Campesino/Workers-Farmers MAPU (Chile) Movimiento Democrático Popular/Popular Democratic Movement © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-51735-5 - The Politics of Exile in Latin America Mario Sznajder and Luis Roniger Frontmatter More information List of Acronyms xiv MFA MIDA MIR MNRI MOPOCO MPL MR-8 NGO NKVD OAS OBAN OEA OFPRA OIM ONR ORVEX OSEA PADR PASOK PCC PCU PDC PIT-CNT PLRA PMDB PPC Ministry of Foreign Affairs Movimiento de Izquierda Democrático Allendista/Pro-Allende Leftist Democratic Movement (Chile) Movimiento de Izquierda Revolucionario/Revolutionary Leftist Movement (Chile) Movimiento Nacionalista Revolucionario de Izquierda/National Revolutionary Leftist Movement (Bolivia) Movimiento Popular Colorado/Red Popular Movement (Paraguay) Movimiento Patria Libre/Free Fatherland Movement (Paraguay) Movimiento Revolucionário 8 de Outubro/Revolutionary Movement 8th October (Brazil) non-govermental organization Narodniy komissariat vnutrennikh del/People’s Commissariat of Internal Affairs (USSR) Organization of American States Operação Bandeirantes/Operation Bandeirantes (Brazil) Organización de Estados Americanos (Spanish-Portuguese acronym for OAS) Office Français de protection des réfugiées et des apatrides/French Office of Protection of Refugees and Stateless Persons (France) Organización Internacional de Migración/International Organization of Migration, or IOM Oficina Nacional de Retorno/National Office of Return (Chile) Organización de Venezolanos en el Exilio/Organization of Venezuelans in Exile Oficina de Solidaridad para Exiliados Argentinos/Office of Solidarity with Argentine Exiles (Argentina) personal archive of Dany Recanati (Israel) Panhellenic Socialist Movement (Greece) Partido Comunista de Chile/Communist Party of Chile Partido Comunista de Uruguay/Communist Party of Uruguay Partido Demócrata Cristiano/Christian Democratic Party (Chile) Plenario Intersindical de Trabajadores–Convención Nacional de Trabajadores/Inter-syndical Plenary of Workers–National Convention of Workers (General Trade Union) (Uruguay) Partido Liberal Radical Auténtico/Authentic Liberal Radical Party (Paraguay) Partido Movimento Democrático Brasileiro/Brazilian Democratic Movement Party (Brazil) Partido del Pueblo Cubano/Cuban Popular Party (Cuba) © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-51735-5 - The Politics of Exile in Latin America Mario Sznajder and Luis Roniger Frontmatter More information List of Acronyms PPD PRD PRD PREALC PRI PRIN PRN PRT PRV PSDP PSI PSIUP PTB RCTV REDHER ROE SCB SD SER SERPAJ SIJAU SIN TYSAE UAL xv Partido por la Democracia/Party for Democracy (Chile) Partido Revolucionario Dominicano/Dominican Revolutionary Party (Dominican Republic) Partido Revolucionario Democrático/Democratic Revolutionary Party (Mexico, Panama) Programa Regional de Empleo para América Latina y el Caribe/Employment Regional Program for Latin America and the Caribbean Partido Revolucionario Institucional/Revolutionary Institutional Party (Mexico) Partido Revolucionario de Izquierda Nacionalista/National Leftist Revolutionary Party (Bolivia) Proceso de Reorganización Nacional/National Reorganization Process (Argentina) Partido Revolucionario de los Trabajadores/Workers Revolutionary Party (Argentina) Partido Revolucionario Venezolano/Venezuelan Revolutionary Party (Venezuela) Panamanian Social Democratic Party (Panama) Partito Socialista Italiano/Italian Socialist Party (Italy) Partito Socialista Italiano di Unità Proletaria/Italian Socialist Party of Proletarian Unity (Italy) Partido Trabalhista Brasileiro/Brazilian Workers’ Party (Brazil) Radio Caracas Televisión/TV-Radio Caracas (Venezuela) Red de Hermandad y Solidaridad/Network of Brotherhood and Solidarity (Colombia) Resistencia Obrero-Estudiantil/Workers’ and Students’ Resistance (Uruguay) Central Bureau of Statistics (Sweden) Social Democracy organizations Servicio Ecuménico de Reintegración/Ecumenical Reintegration Service (Uruguay) Servicio de Paz y Justicia/Peace and Justice Service (Uruguay, Chile) Secretariado Internacional de Juristas por la Amnistı́a en Uruguay/International Secretary of Jurists for Amnesty in Uruguay (France) Servicio de Inteligencia Nacional/National Intelligence Service (Peru) Travailleurs et syndicalistes Argentines en Exil/Trabajadores y sindicalistas argentinos en el exilio/Argentinean Workers and Syndicalists in Exile (France) Unión Artiguista de Liberación/Artigas Liberation Union (Uruguay) © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-51735-5 - 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