Download or read book Luz Arce and Pinochet s Chile written by M. Lazzara and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-04-25 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the demise of the Pinochet dictatorship in 1990, collaboration and complicity - both in the torture chamber and civil society - have been taboo topics not only for the Chilean left but also for society at large. By revisiting the experience of Luz Arce Sandoval - a leftist militant turned collaborator with Pinochet's secret police - Luz Arce and Pinochet's Chile raises urgent political and ethical questions about how nations carry out unspeakable violence in the name of "progress" and "democracy." Juxtaposing interviews, legal documents, and academic analysis, this book probes the personal and collective dimensions of torture, collaborationism, truth, justice, reconciliation, and memory, issues that resonate in Latin America and beyond.
Download or read book The Inferno written by Luz Arce and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Luz Arce's testimonial offers the harrowing story of the abuse she suffered and witnessed as a survivor of detention camps, such as the infamous Villa Grimaldi.
Download or read book Civil Obedience written by Michael Lazzara and published by University of Wisconsin Pres. This book was released on 2018-05-15 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boldly breaks new ground in studies of Latin American postdictatorial memories by tackling a taboo topic--civilian complicity with the Pinochet regime--that Chilean society has strategically avoided.
Download or read book Civil Obedience written by Michael J. Lazzara and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the fall of General Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship (1973-1990), Chilean society has shied away from the taboo subject of civilian complicity, preferring to pursue convictions of military perpetrators. But the torture, murders, deportations, and disappearances of tens of thousands of people in Chile were not carried out by the military alone; it required a vast civilian network of support. Some actively participated in the regime's massive violations of human rights for personal gain or from a sense of patriotic duty. Others supported Pinochet's neoliberal economic program while ignoring the crimes of that era. Michael J. Lazzara boldly argues that today's Chile is a product of both complicity and complacency. Combining historical analysis with deft literary, political, and cultural critique, he scrutinizes the post-Pinochet rationalizations made by politicians, artists, intellectuals, bystanders, former revolutionaries-turned-neoliberals, and common citizens. He looks beyond victims and perpetrators to unveil the ambiguous, ethically vexed realms of memory and experience that authoritarian regimes inevitably generate.
Download or read book The Investigative Brigade written by Pascale Bonnefoy Miralles and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2022-08-25 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the seventeen-year Pinochet dictatorship, more than three thousand Chileans were murdered or disappeared without a trace. In 1991, a year after the brutal military regime ended, the new civilian government tasked the nation's detective force to investigate these crimes. Chilean journalist Pascale Bonnefoy tells the dramatic story of the detectives who hunted down and attempted to bring human rights violators to account. Led by a tiny group called Department V, the effort took place in the context of a frail transition to democracy and while the force itself was undergoing profound reforms. With Pinochet still in charge of the army, a center-left government tested how far it could go to bring criminals to justice without risking military backlash. To uncover this story, Bonnefoy gained the trust of detectives assigned to the cases and drew on their direct testimony. She excavated investigative files, witness testimony, and previously secret documents that helped her chronicle the dedicated brigade's dangerous mission. While substantial justice and institutional change took another decade to kick in, the detectives' work made it possible. Still unfolding, the post-Pinochet example is admired by many working for transitional justice around the globe.
Download or read book The Chilean Dictatorship Novel written by Helene Carol Weldt-Basson and published by University of New Mexico Press. This book was released on 2024-06-01 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though the civil-rights abuses by the Pinochet dictatorship in Chile (1973-1990) were later recognized by reparations and truth commissions, the difficult emotions suffered by the victims and their families were often pushed into the background or out of the national conversation entirely. In response, novelists began writing memory of feelings experienced during the dictatorship into their books. In The Chilean Dictatorship Novel, Weldt-Basson examines fifteen novels and one testimony written on the topic of dictatorship to illustrate how these Chilean narratives center on affect and emotions. Each chapter focuses on a different emotion: feelings of loss because of father abandonment and spatial injustice caused by the neoliberal urbanization of Santiago; despair articulated through tragic romances and affective landscapes; left-wing nostalgia and melancholia communicated through allegory; feelings of abjection caused by torture and betrayal; and the creation of affect through violent events, aggressive child play, and sexual torture. Through a close look at the work of José Donoso, Ariel Dorfman, Diamela Eltit, Carlos Franz, and Nona Fernández, among others, Weldt-Basson effectively argues that by inspiring emotion and creating empathy within readers, the authors of these books instill a drive in the readers for ongoing social-justice advocacy, thereby transforming the process of reading into a platform for future action. Weldt-Basson's landmark study will serve as a basis for the future study of Latin American literature for decades to come.
Download or read book Women Memory and Dictatorship in Recent Chilean Fiction written by Gustavo Carvajal and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2021-11-15 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study is the only book in English to analyse Chilean memory culture using an interdisciplinary angle (memory studies, gender studies, literature in post-dictatorship Chile) It includes comprehensive material, from award-winning authors (Diamela Eltit, Carlos Franz, Arturo Fontaine), rising stars of the Chilean literary scene (Nona Fernández) to first-time published novelists (Pía González, Fátima Sime) It is the only book in English that focuses on women, memory and dictatorship in contemporary Chile from a cultural and literary perspective. It offers a new way of comprehending Chilean memory culture, considering gender and literature as two key elements in this cultural approach to the recent past.
Download or read book The Pinochet File written by Peter Kornbluh and published by The New Press. This book was released on 2016-04-12 with total page 485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revised and updated: the definitive primary-source history of US involvement in General Pinochet’s Chilean coup—“the evidence is overwhelming” (The New Yorker). Published to commemorate the fortieth anniversary of General Augusto Pinochet’s infamous September 11, 1973, military coup in Chile, this updated edition of The Pinochet File reveals the shocking, formerly secret record of the US government’s complicity with atrocity in a foreign country. The book now completes the file on Pinochet’s story, detailing his multiple indictments between 2004 and his death on December 10, 2006, including the Riggs Bank scandal that revealed how the dictator had illegally squirreled away over $26 million in ill-begotten wealth in secret American bank accounts. When it was first released in hardcover, The Pinochet File contributed to the international campaign to hold Pinochet accountable for murder, torture, and terrorism. A new afterword tells the extraordinary story of Henry Kissinger’s attempt to undercut the book’s reception—efforts that generated a major scandal that led to a high-level resignation at the Council on Foreign Relations, illustrating the continued ability of the book to speak truth to power. “The Pinochet File should be considered the long awaited book of record on U.S. intervention in Chile . . . A crisp compelling narrative, almost a political thriller.” —Los Angeles Times
Download or read book El infierno written by Luz Arce and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Es marzo de 1974. Una joven militante socialista es detenida por agentes de la DINA y condenada a errar por siniestros centros de tortura. Resiste cinco meses, pero cuando enfrenta amenazas dirigidas a su familia, decide colaborar. Da nombres, participa en poroteos, confecciona diccionarios marxistas, diseña organigramas de movimientos de izquierda, entabla relaciones amorosas con sus captores y, finalmente, en 1975 es oficialmente reclutada como funcionaria de la DINA por su director, Manuel Contreras. "Me llamo Luz Arce. Me ha costado mucho recuperar este nombre. Existe sobre mí una suerte de leyenda negra, una historia imprecisa, elaborada al tenor de una realidad de horror, humillación y violencia". Así se inicia esta memoria que -como la de tantos otros ciudadanos proscritos- se confunde con los retazos de una historia nacional aún silenciada. Más allá de su valor testimonial, El Infierno es un libro clave de la historia reciente. Sintomáticamente desatendido por la crítica al momento de su aparición, este texto "maldito" revela, desde dentro, el engranaje de los servicios de inteligencia de Pinochet: la tenebrosa forma en que convivieron los aspectos más pedestres de la institución -ambiciones de poder, riñas intestinas, fiestas, deslices, alcohol y affaires-, con los mecanismos de opresión más crueles de la dictadura. Esta memoria nos sumerge en los calabozos donde los cuerpos de los detenidos -y, en especial, de las mujeres- fueron sometidos a vejaciones que, en nombre de un orden patriarcal, fracturaron sus biografías: parrillas, electro-shock, celdas, mordazas y juguetes bélicos son las huellas que dejó, en el cuerpo y en la memoria de miles de chilenos anónimos, una temporada en "El infierno"." --Contratapa.
Download or read book Pinochet written by Hugh O'Shaughnessy and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2000-03 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Near midnight on October 16, 1998, officers of Scotland Yard entered the London hospital room of former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet and arrested him on charges of torturing and murdering Spanish citizens. The arrest sent shockwaves around the world, delighting his detractors and the families of his regime's victims, and dismaying his supporters, including Margaret Thatcher. It marked the first time a former head of state had been detained outside his own country on charges of crimes against humanity, and thus signaled a clear warning to former dictators and heads of abusive regimes. Through interviews, eyewitness accounts, and new sources, veteran journalist Hugh O'Shaughnessy here sifts through the General's personal life, rise to power, and arrest and internment. In clear, unforgiving prose, Pinochet: The Politics of Torture tells the riveting story of legal intrigue behind the search for justice.
Download or read book Prisoner of Pinochet written by Sergio Bitar and published by University of Wisconsin Pres. This book was released on 2017-12-12 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gripping account of daily life as a political prisoner by a former Chilean cabinet minister, offering personal insight into the political climate and historical events of 1970s Chile under military dictator Augusto Pinochet.
Download or read book Fear in Chile written by Patricia Politzer and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 1989 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is an extraordinary first person chronicle of life under dictatorship. Journalist Patricia Politzer has interviewed men and women from every strata of Chilean life for a broad, vivid, yet non-ideologial view of modern life under military rule.
Download or read book L Enfer Terreur et survie sous Pinochet written by Luz Arce and published by Les petits matins. This book was released on 2014-06-05 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " Il fallait collaborer avec la Dina ou mourir. Moi, je voulais vivre. " Arrêtée en 1974 pour avoir poursuivi ses activités de militante socialiste après le coup d'État qui renversa le gouvernement de Salvador Allende, torturée, violée, menacée de représailles contre sa famille, Luz Arce est placée devant une alternative impossible. Il s'agit de sauver sa vie en envoyant les autres en enfer. Elle choisit de vivre et sa vie devient un enfer. L'ancienne membre de la garde rapprochée d'Allende se voit contrainte de trahir ses anciens amis et de travailler pour la tristement célèbre Dina, la police politique de Pinochet. Si elle parvient à quitter cette organisation en 1980, il faudra plus de dix ans à Luz Arce pour trouver la force de raconter son histoire. Depuis, ses nombreuses dépositions auprès des tribunaux ont joué un rôle déterminant dans l'inculpation de plusieurs hauts responsables de la police chilienne. L'intérêt de ce témoignage dépasse largement le cadre du Chili et de son histoire. Par-delà la violence des régimes totalitaires, il révèle une face cachée de la condition humaine.
Download or read book La Vida Doble written by Arturo Fontaine and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2013-05-28 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When she is captured and tortured by agents of the Chilean repression during the darkest years of the Pinochet dictatorship, Lorena, a leftist militant, must either forsake the allegiances of motherhood or betray the political ideals to which she is deeply committed. 5,000 first printing.
Download or read book The Condor Years written by John Dinges and published by New Press, The. This book was released on 2012-03-13 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “compelling and shocking account” of a brutal campaign of repression in Latin America, based on interviews and previously secret documents (The Miami Herald). Throughout the 1970s, six Latin American governments, led by Chile, formed a military alliance called Operation Condor to carry out kidnappings, torture, and political assassinations across three continents. It was an early “war on terror” initially encouraged by the CIA—which later backfired on the United States. Hailed by Foreign Affairs as “remarkable” and “a major contribution to the historical record,” The Condor Years uncovers the unsettling facts about the secret US relationship with the dictators who created this terrorist organization. Written by award-winning journalist John Dinges and updated to include later developments in the prosecution of Pinochet, the book is a chilling yet dispassionately told history of one of Latin America’s darkest eras. Dinges, himself interrogated in a Chilean torture camp, interviewed participants on both sides and examined thousands of previously secret documents to take the reader inside this underground world of military operatives and diplomats, right-wing spies and left-wing revolutionaries. “Scrupulous, well-documented.” —The Washington Post “Nobody knows what went wrong inside Chile like John Dinges.” —Seymour Hersh
Download or read book The Murder of Chile written by Samuel Chavkin and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Chile in Transition written by Michael J. Lazzara and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A lucid and well-thought-out study of artistic expressions that evoke experiences from the years of the military dictatorship in Chile. . . . The perceptive analyses, intelligent insights, and breadth of information . . . make this [book] compelling reading."--Maria Ines Lagos, University of Virginia Lazzara examines the political, ethical, and aesthetic implications of the diverse narrative forms Chilean artists have used to represent the memory of political violence under the Pinochet regime. By studying multiple "lenses of memory" through which truths about the past have been constructed, he seeks to expose the complex intersections among trauma, subjectivity, and literary genres, and to question the nature of trauma's "artistic" rendering. Drawing on current theorizations about memory, human rights, and trauma, Lazzara analyzes a broad body of written, visual, and oral texts produced during Chile's democratic transition as representations of a set of poetics searching to connect politics and memory, achieve personal reconciliation, or depict the "unspeakable" personal and collective consequences of torture and disappearance. In so doing, he sets the "politics of consensus and reconciliation" against alternative narratives that offer an ethical counterpoint to "forgetting and looking toward the future" and argues that perhaps only those works that resist hasty narrative resolution to the past can stand up to the ethical and epistemological challenges facing postdictatorial societies still struggling to come to terms with their history. Grounded in Lazzara's firsthand knowledge of the post-Pinochet period and its cultural production, Chile in Transition offers groundbreaking connections and perspectives that set this period in the context of other postauthoritarian societies dealing with contested memories and conflicting memorializing practices, most notably with Holocaust studies.
