“We know that the past cannot be changedIt cannot be erased, as some will like, but you can learn from it.” Gabriel Boric was not born when the night of horror swept Chile. 50th anniversary of the military coup. decline Salvador Allende and 17 years dictatorship They will be a recurring theme through September 2023. For now, an event from that past not only chills the present, but also shows how great some of the wounds of the general’s regime were. Augusto Pinochet still remains to be considered and analysed. Since March 12, most of the Chileans’ eyes have been turned to TVN’s screens. A six-part documentary series called ‘Accepted, Missing Story’ is broadcast on Sunday evenings.
your manager, Christian Leightonabout back international adoptions sponsored by the military government. Judge Mario Carroza calculated that as many as 20,000 children passed A similar road with a European destination and largely dullness or possessiveness. They separated from their mother after birth, with a recurring number: they almost always told the mother that it was her. The child had died during childbirth. They made them sign documents they didn’t understand or declared them incompetent. They were handed over to foreign couples with the complicity of medical personnel, members of the Catholic Church, and government officials. “They came looking for us. they put us on the plane. They didn’t tell us the truth: we came from a far away place,” says one of those kids in the documentary.
complaint documentaries
Leighton was 8 years old when Pinochet came to power. He had previously entered the bowels of the regime while filming ‘Colonia Dignidad: A German sect in Chile’.‘. This new series was co-created with Daniela Bunster. They filmed in Sweden, the Netherlands, France, Germany and the southern Chilean region where most of the babies come from. The director did not start from scratch. In 2014, the CIPER journalism investigation center uncovered how a priest named Gerardo Joannon left presumed dead children for adoption. university researcher Karen Alfarowent even further to shed light on this sinister plot. Publication of ‘Chilean boys and girls adopted by Swedish families’. Diplomatic closeness during the Cold War (1973-1990) periods made a strong impression in 2021. According to the academic, the regime offered to oppose the sermons of the Social Democratic government. Olof Palm Not just by engaging with the Swedish far-right against Pinochet. “The transnational adoption of poor Chilean boys and girls to Sweden was considered by the military dictatorship as a mechanism of diplomatic and political affinity.” Alejandro Vega’s documentaries have shed light on the same issue recently.
hatred of the poor
Leighton’s documentary returns to drama Alejandro Quezada He was adopted by a Dutch family. Quezada ‘introduced his campaign’Chilean Adoptives Worldwide‘. His own biography led him to a shocking conclusion: the dictatorship sought to prevent the poorest families from raising their own children. It was very difficult for mothers to confront this logic, which especially punishes the indigenous Mapuche community. “These eugenic practices were not alien to the rest of Latin American countries, as illustrated in the example of the mass forced sterilization of indigenous, rural and popular women in Peru. Alberto Fujimori“In the 1990s,” says Martina Yopo, director of the Observatory for Inequality at Diego Portales University, in a column in the newspaper ‘La Tercera’.
The temporal overlap of ‘Adopted, the story we missed’ with the most dramatic moment in half a century of Chilean history adds another weight to this documentary. Leighton believes it helps elevate”perhaps an edge that is not so well known“About the gate of hell that opened in September 1973. It is important that what happened is made visible and testified.”
Says Yopo: “Cases like forced adoption show us that as a society we still We owe it to the victims of human rights abuses.”. According to him, “it is essential to advance in judicial procedures that allow for the establishment of criminal liability and sanctions for those involved in forced adoptions, as well as recognition of victims’ suffering and the implementation of effective reparation policies.”
Six years ago, the Supreme Court appointed Judge Carroza to lead the investigations. In 2021, Sweden pledged to clarify more than 2,000 irregular adoptions of Chilean children. Boric’s government launched a pilot scheme last year to expedite the search for hundreds of victims of illegal adoption. The state has made it easier for those living abroad to access DNA sampling.