James Cañón

The Disappeared (Los Desaparecidos)

The Disappeared, a remarkable traveling exhibition organized by the North Dakota Museum of Art and curated by Laurel Reuter, opened last night at El Museo del Barrio. It brings together visual artists’ responses to the tens of thousands of persons who were kidnapped, tortured, killed and “vanished” in Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Uruguay by repressive right-wing military dictatorships during the late-1950s to the 1980s, and, more recently, in Colombia’s fifty-year civil war. The Disappeared gathers 14 contemporary living artists from seven countries in Central and South America, all of whose work contends with the horrors and violence stemming from the totalitarian regimes in each of their countries. Some of the artists worked in the resistance; some had parents or siblings who were disappeared; others were forced into exile. The youngest were born into the aftermath of those dictatorships. And still others have lived in countries maimed by endless civil war. These artists are fighting “amnesia” in their own countries, but they’re also asking North Americans to question what role the US played in supporting the Latin American governments which killed, and still do, their own people. Any resemblance to what’s going on in Irak and Afghanistan is a pure coincidence.
For more information, visit El Museo’s website.

I saw the exhibit in Santa Fe and want to know the touring schedule to see it again either in Washington DC or Los Angeles, CA.

A forced disappearance occurs when force is used (by, for example, agents of a state) to cause a person to vanish from public view, followed by a refusal to acknowledge the deprivation of liberty (and/or by concealment of the fate or whereabouts of the disappeared person),ruby ring thereby placing the victim outside the protection of law.

According to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, which came into force on 1 July 2002, when committed as part of a widespread or systematic attack directed at any civilian population, a “forced disappearance” qualifies as a crime against humanity, and thus is not subject to a statute of limitation.

On December 20, 2006, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance.

Often forced disappearance implies murder. The victim in such a case is first kidnapped, then illegally detained, often tortured, then killed, and the corpse is then hidden. Typically, a murder will be surreptitious, with the body disposed of in such a way as to prevent it ever being found, so the person apparently vanishes. The party committing the murder has deniability, as there is no body to gold ringprove that the victim is actually dead.

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