Augusto Pinochet's right-wing rule was marked by tens of thousands of arrests, torture and disappearances.
“Some people don’t know anything about what happened and aren’t interested, others are tired that...even after 50 years, many people still don’t know what happened to their disappeared relatives,” said Elvira Cádiz, who was six years old in 1973.She remembers neighbors being lined up in the streets and troops checking house by house in the working-class neighborhood of Estación Central in the capital Santiago where she still lives.
Violent protests against inequality rocked Santiago in 2019, sparking off a movement to redraft the Pinochet-era constitution. But that was rejected by voters last year in a major blow to the country’s progressives. A far right leader, José Antonio Kast, an outspoken supporter of Pinochet, is now playing a central role in a second redraft attempt.
“There are some who invite us to turn the page, to forget the past,” Boric, an admirer of Allende, said recently. “But there is no possible bright future without memory and truth.” Gaby Rivera, president of the Group of Relatives of Disappeared Detainees, saw her father Luis Rivera taken in November 1975. Over the years her family has been given several versions of his fate, including that his body was thrown into the sea.
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