ABSTRACT
The origins, developments, and challenges of the forensic anthropology teams in Latin America are subjects that have been deeply connected in the region to the human rights violations that took place during the Cold War years. From stories with a fairly related political archaeology to those that are most dissimilar, the developments have coincided in the ideological and repressive timeframe of violation conjunctures and in the types of crimes. Despite the dissimilarity of the political regimes in which the repressive strategy was developed and exercised from the Southern Cone to Central and North America, shared the doctrinal conception of the bipolar world generated in the middle of the 20th century. In the countries of the Southern Cone, repressive strategy was deployed from regimes that annulled democratic institutionalism, within a precise timeframe that goes from the establishing of the dictatorships to their conclusion.
