Hispanic Division Special Events

THE HISPANIC DIVISION
PRESENTS

American short story writer C.M. Mayo discusses and signs her book

THE LAST PRINCE OF THE MEXICAN EMPIRE:
BASED ON THE TRUE STORY (2009)

Prince Agustin de Iturbide y Green was the grandson of Agustín de Iturbide, the first emperor of independent Mexico. In order to perpetuate the Habsburg dynasty in Mexico, the child was adopted by second emperor, Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico and Empress Carlota of Mexico. In writing this novel, the author did research at the Library of Congress, at Georgetown University and at the Historical Society of the District of Columbia.

Monday, July 20,2009
Noon to 1 p.m.
Mary Pickford Theater, Madison Builidng, 3rd Floor
101 Independence Ave.,  SE.
Washington, DC

For more  information: (202) 707-2013

THE HISPANIC DIVISION

PRESENTS

THOMAS WRIGHT
Professor of History, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

THE EROSION OF IMPUNITY IN CHILE AND ARGENTINA

Prof. Wright examines the changing domestic and international conditions that ended the impunity enjoyed by former repressors during the 1990s and resulted, in recent years, in the trials and convictions of hundreds of military men for human right violations carried out under state terrorist regimes: the Pinochet dictatorship in Chile (1973-1900) and the "dirty war" in Argentina (1976-1983). Chile and Argentina are the only Latin American countries to systematically bring human rights violators to justice in their own courts---a phenomenon that is virtually unprecedented in modern world history.

Thursday, July 30, 2009
Library of Congress Madison Building, 3rd Floor,
Dining Room C

For information call: 202-707-2013