Abstract
This article examines the role the Latin American Program of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, created in 1979, played in the discussion and organization of scientific meetings, seminars and congresses on the issues of transition and reconciliation as strategies for overcoming dictatorships, specifically the Brazilian one, during the Cold War. We start from the observation that the activities of the Latin America Program established parameters for the discussion and for the seminal political strategies to legitimize alliance policies at the end of the Brazilian dictatorship in the Cold War. Focusing on reconciliation, these strategies explicitly sought not only to safeguard the coalition between liberals and right-wing groups that supported the dictatorship but also tried to stop the advance of left-wing currents into power.
Keywords
Transition; reconciliation; intellectual networks; dictatorship; Latin American Program