In this guest lecture, Prof. Rodrigo Patto Sá Motta offers an assessment of the year of 1973 in the context of Latin America by exploring the commonalities and particularities among different southern cone military dictatorships. Taking 1973 as a landmark, this guest lecture analyses the objectives and interests that led certain social groups to support the dictatorships and their tools of repression, as well as the impact these authoritarian regimes had on regional and global history. Now that fifty years have passed, can we consider that democracy in the region is durable? Have the structural and contextual elements that gave rise to the authoritarian wave of the 1960s-70s now been overcome?

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