As emboldened far-right denialists dismiss the horrors of state terrorism, seeking truth and justice for systematic sexual political violence remains urgent, 50 years after the 1973 coup.
Fifty years after documenting the Allende government and the events of 1973, Guzmán says that if he were to make a film about Chile today “it would be a film of questions.”
Fifty years on from the coup that installed dictatorship and neoliberalism in Chile, protest art from the streets of Santiago underlines the present reverberations of an authoritarian past.
Days after the bombing of La Moneda on September 11, 1973, the military junta set a priority that would define Chile’s trajectory for decades: drafting a new constitution.
On June 27, 1973, a coup plunged Uruguay into dictatorship. Decades later, human rights movements continue to demand justice for the crimes committed under the reign of state terror.
