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Remembrance, democracy and development in Chile 1973-2003

Abstract

“The political projects for the present and the future are a projection in time and in new circumstances, or in the face of new issues and problems, of those experienced in certain historical crystallisations that define the identity of a nation”. Collective memory is one of the building blocks of modernity models. In today’s Chile, the absence of a frank debate on the memory of certain key milestones in recent history, such as the experience of the People’s Unit (1970-1973) and the 1973 coup d’état, is instrumental in maintaining a low-intensity democracy that is incapable of calling into question the current model of development and modernity. In particular, the conflict between the different interpretations of history made explicit at the time of the coup lawsuits has resulted in a functional official narrative in terms of legitimising important institutional and socio-economic continuity between Chile dictatorial and democratic Chile, encouraging the establishment of a formal and unparticipatory democracy in which social and political ‘consensus’ has been established as the supreme value, over and above the search for alternative national development patterns and projects. The inclusion of memories belonging to the social movements and the left-wing groups in the political debate is an essential step for the ethical reconstruction of a Chilean national community, for deepening its democracy and for opening up the alternatives of its projection towards the future Palabras Key: Remembrance, Gope d’État, Popular Unity, Democracy, Izquierdas, Participation.

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