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...Verónica Valdivia Ortiz de Zárate 2003 by MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization, Inc. 2003 17-Zarate.cs 11/19/02 4:03 PM Page 182 REFLECTIONS AND REPORTS Terrorism and Political Violence during the Pinochet Years: Chile, 1973...

... and institutional benefits of involving justice system institutions in the search for accountability for past crimes. © 2016 by MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization, Inc. 2016 Pinochet trials Chile courts REFLECTIONS: MEMORY AND HUMAN RIGHTS Human Rights Defense in and through...

... of the largest discretionary executive branch releases of records on any country or foreign policy issue. The worldwide attention to Augusto Pinochet's detention in London put an international onus on the United States, whose classified government archives could provide pivotal evidence for Spain's efforts...

... vanishes). I thought of the Chilean woman whose family I'd stayed with in Santiago in the fif- teenth and final year of General Pinochet's total role. Back in the late 1970s soldiers charged into her house in the mid- dle of the night and dragged away her oldest son, a teenager at the time...

...Michael J. Lazzara Civilian complicity remains one of the least studied aspects of Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship and, to this point, has not been a matter of widespread public debate in Chile. This article examines the case of Mariana Callejas, a literary writer who married the American-born DINA...

... as a mobilizing language that symbolized the drive for truth, justice, and democracy? This essay traces, for the iconic case of Chile, the dialectics of street struggle and cognitive struggle during the Pinochet dictatorship of the 1970s and 1980s that turned memory into a strategic language for victim-survivors...

...Paula T. Cronovich This article sheds light on the process of the unprecedented “No” campaign of 1988 in Chile, whereby Augusto Pinochet was ousted by a simple yes/no referendum, thus ending his more than fifteen years in power. Pablo Larraín's 2012 film No takes this historical event as the basis...

...Alicia del Campo The 2011 student movement radically challenged the Chilean political process by exposing the hidden legacy of Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship and demanding a complete restructuring of its neoliberal reforms. The demonstrators contended that these so-called reforms transformed...

...Pablo Álvarez; Francisco Rodriguez Abstract During the dictatorship in Chile, which lasted from 1973 to 1990, a small number of publications openly published prodemocracy critiques. APSI magazine was one of them. This teaching tool shows how to read for criticisms of Pinochet in an overground...

...Johanna Gautier Morin [email protected] [email protected] Copyright © 2025 by MARHO: The Radical Historians’ Organization, Inc. 2025 The Chilean “miracle” during the Pinochet dictatorship is a modern-day chimera: with a gun in one hand and a monetarist stethoscope in the other...

... to concern themselves with. In the Chilean case, Heidi Tinsman has shown that the agricultural boom that occurred under Pinochet had roots in the pre-1973 period. “The economic miracle for which Chile’s military regime would become famous in the 1980s,” she writes, “was a product long in the making.” 15...

... at Vassar College. She is author of Politics and the Art of Commemoration: Memorials to Struggle in Latin America and Spain (2012; in Spanish, 2013) and When the Romance Ended: Leaders of the Chilean Left, 1968 – 1998 (2000) and coeditor of The Politics of Memory in Chile: From Pinochet to Bachelet...

..., lush rainforests, health spas, fine wines, and European-like cities. Nonetheless, Chile’s association with military rule, and the fame of its ex-dictator, Augusto Pinochet, were considered well enough known to the informed tourist so as to merit oblique references...

... through a liberal democratic process, and it ushered in seventeen years of a bloody military dictatorship under General Augusto Pinochet, a regime that became iconic of authoritarian rule and human rights violations throughout Latin America in the 1970s and 1980s. During military rule, and enabled...

... the reigns of Gabriel González Videla (1946–1952), Carlos Ibáñez del Campo (1952–1958) and Augusto Pinochet (1973–1990), Pisagua has served as a site for the detention, tor- ture, and murder of leftists and queer “sexual dissidents” throughout the latter half of the twentieth century.3 Radical...

... the Right,3 fol- lowed shortly by the arrest of Augusto Pinochet in London in 1998 and the piling up of cases against him in Chilean courts. The impact of Pinochet’s arrest cannot be emphasized enough, especially its cathartic effect through which Chilean society rediscovered a language...

... society: to end Chile’s centuries-­old hacienda and peonage labor system (inquilinaje), the basis of elite power. During military rule in the 1970s and 1980s, the goals were no less ambitious. Under Augusto Pinochet, things did not “go back to the way they were.” Instead, for the first time...

... Violeta Parra Pinochet torture site of memory CURATED SPACES Sergio Castilla The Emblematic Chilean Filmmaker Verónica Cortínez The life and art of Sergio Castilla (b. 1942, Santiago) are a dramatic individual con- densation of fifty years of Chilean history. He inherited his passion...

... who appear in the images held at gunpoint by soldiers: most are dead or disappeared. During first the Pinochet dictatorship (1973–90) and then the governments of the center-left Concertación de los Partidos por la Democracia (Coalition of Par...

... opposition — a self- amnesty that would be emulated by the military junta headed by Augusto Pinochet in 1978. In 1895, only four years after the civil war, members of Balmaceda’s Lib- eral Democratic Party joined a governing coalition. The Liberal Democratic Party became a key element in tipping...