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When General Augusto Pinoehet ar- rived in Valparaiso last March to hand over power to Christian Democrat Patri- cio Aylwin and a coalition of opposition parties, crowds lining the streets screamed "Murderer!" and threw eggs and toma- toes. For relatives of victims of human rights abuses, that moment was "like a liberation," according to one member of the Organization of Relatives of the De- tained and Disappeared (AFDD).
THE BLACK AND THE ROSE-COLORED LEGENDS -two extremes that leave us outside of history, out- side of reality. These interpretations of the conquest of America reveal a suspicious veneration of times past, of a re- splendent corpse whose'brilliance blinds us to the daily reality of our lands.
The Town That Raised Its Head Although news of army human rights violations in Guatemala raises few eyebrows anymore, the recent massacre in Santiago Atitlin (December 2, 1990) merits special attention. It is notewor- thy less for the event itself, than for the local and national response.
FINE WORDS AND PRETTY CEREMONIES ARE about to descend upon us: The five-hundredth anniversary of the so-called Discovery is approaching. I think Alejo Carpentier was right when he called this the greatest event in the history of humankind.