Francesca Lessa

Francesca Lessa

Dr Francesca Lessa is a postdoctoral researcher at the Latin American Centre at the University of Oxford, specialising on issues of justice and human ... rights in Argentina and Uruguay.


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Ac­tivists in Uruguay re­main hope­ful, de­spite enor­mous chal­lenges, that jus­tice will be served to dic­ta­tor­ship vic­tims.

Opinion by Francesca Lessa and Pierre-Louis Le Goff
Published On 13 Feb 2014
URUGUAY-JUSTICE-MOTA-POLICE

Uruguay con­tin­ues to strug­gle with its dic­ta­to­r­i­al past.

Opinion by Francesca Lessa and Pierre-Louis Le Goff
Published On 18 Nov 2013

It’s time for Uruguay to make the an­niver­sary of the mil­i­tary coup a na­tion­al day of re­mem­brance.

Opinion by Francesca Lessa and Pierre-Louis Le Goff
Published On 27 Jun 2013
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The Plan Con­dor tri­al has re­ver­ber­a­tions be­yond Ar­genti­na, of­fer­ing the op­por­tu­ni­ty of jus­tice de­nied to many vic­tims.

Opinion by Francesca Lessa and Pierre-Louis Le Goff
Published On 27 Mar 2013
Jorge Videla and Reynaldo Bignone listen to the verdict during their trial in a courthouse in Buenos Aires