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The latter half of the 20th century saw a wave of US-backed military coup d'états sinking Latin America in decades of far-right authoritarian dictatorial regimes, who cooperated between themselves and the United States to coordinate the violent repression of "political enemies" that resulted in the torture, disappearance and murder of a still unknown total number of people, among them students, workers, activists, minorities, members of armed resistance groups and even members of the military themselves.

In 2014, Brazil's National Truth Comission officially reported 434 people as dead or missing. Additionally, around 20.000 brazilians are estimated to have been subjected to torture at the hands of the State. In practice, however, the numbers are much higher, and they don't even take the State's project of genocide against indigenous peoples into acount.

Keep in mind that the data I'm showing only corresponds to Brazil, but this was happening all over the continent, in Bolivia, Argentina, Chile, Paraguay, Uruguay, Peru, Ecuador. And even before the wave of coups in South America, the US had been doing the same thing in Central America and The Caribbean.

To this day, most of the perpetrators of this violence, despite being well known, never had to pay for their crimes. On the contrary, they're praised for it more often than we'd like, and all meanwhile thousands of families are to this day deprived of even as much as a body to bury.

This was never "a thing of the past", because Latin Americans are still very much suffering from the wounds inflicted on us during that time, we're reminded of them every day and we feel them every day, no matter how many far-right politicians and their minions try to deny it. Our countries haven't been treated as anything other than colonies since 1492.

Summary:

The Darkling neglects to stop the letters flying between Alina and her tracker.

This changes more and less than you'd think.

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