On the eve of the 50th anniversary celebrations of its founding couppresident Chili pepper, Gabriel Boricopened an artistic installation in the Palacio de la Moneda, which was the target of the bombs. ‘A democrat’s march In the center of Santiago, the address of the narrow street from which you can enter the Executive Headquarters is located at Morandé 80. This is a showcase Contains the shoes Allende wore on September 11, 1973. This is how the visitorreplace anotherIn other words, that “other” is the socialist president who committed suicide by not accepting this constitution. unconditional surrender what the military conspirators demanded.
“My father’s long journey as a social warrior and interpreter of social justice,” the senator said in a statement Monday. Isabel Allende. “We must have memory. I tried to write a story 50 years after the coup, but it was not easy. I should have been the last person from my father’s entourage to enter the palace that day. We have a duty to explain: what the truth of your government means and the barbarism it implements. “We must ensure that what happened that day does not happen again.”
“What a beautiful name they chose for this commemoration. Let’s think about what it means,” said Boric, standing at Morandé 80. They took Allende’s body there, wrapped in a blanket. And at the same gate, the enormous challenge that persists in Chile half a century later is being staged. Right-wing forces did not attend the ceremony attended by numerous Latin American presidents and former presidents, such as that of Spain. Felipe Gonzalez, and Nobel Peace Prize, Colombian Juan Manuel Santos. Former head of this conservative field, bigwig Sebastian PiñeraHe signed the Santiago Pledge, encouraged by the Government, to register his will. “never again” Repeat the 9/11 experience. However, he is not participating in this Monday’s events.
The heirs of the forces that not only greeted and accompanied the coup, but also were its political support, could not or did not want to put themselves “in the shoes” of Allende or others who suffered from the coup. Dictatorship since the day of the coup. Chile Vsmos coalition, Piñera’s party National Renewal (RN), the Independent Democratic Union (UDI) and Evópoli signed a document that did not include the word “coup” and replaced it with the phrase “institutional collapse”. However, in addition to reaffirming its current commitment to human rights and democracy, the declaration condemned the use of violence as a political act.
far right
Republicans, a far-right group led by Pinochetista who hegemonized the Constituent Council José Antonio Kast, He completely turned his back on the anniversary. Kast contented himself with denying the damage suffered by Jaime Guzmán’s grave last Sunday. Guzmán, the former senator who was assassinated by the armed group Manuel Rodríguez Patriotic Front in 1991 in the midst of the democratic transition, was the intellectual author of the Constitution promulgated during the military regime. “Boric should have been in the cemetery, defending Jaime Guzmán’s right to rest in peace. The same scene of violence is repeated every year, and no president has had the courage to overcome violence and impunity.” The young president had harshly denied this fact on the same Sunday, as well as the damage that hooded men inflicted on La Moneda headquarters a few hours after the opening of the facility at Morandé 80.
Dissent was found in this episode and in some of the president’s statements (in which he described the general as a coward when the police went to his home looking for him and imprisoned him for his responsibility in the killing of the police). singer-songwriter Víctor Jara) reason for leaving commemoration and national mourning.
In fact, the UDI, created in 1980 with the unequivocal support of Pinochet, went much further this Monday. “We regret that the government has thwarted the majority’s desire to commemorate unity.” According to him, it was the People’s Unity experience that caused this situation. “The collapse of democracy.” “September 11, 1973”It has become inevitable“. The reasons for this “rupture” should be sought in what happened “between 1970 and 1973”. Although the UDI places responsibility on Allende and the left, it argues that Chile “must insist on the path of justice and reparations through institutional, civil and criminal means”.
critics
“There was a right Frankly, it’s an immature, ridiculous attitude. We once held out hope—a modest hope, it might be added—that a democratic, liberal right would emerge. But the right showed itself as it is: holding on to the trauma of UP (Popular Unity) and not being able to break away from the dictatorship. The latter is truly incredible,” said Carlos Peña, president of the prestigious Diego Portales University. “I have listened to right-wing figures and right-wing intellectuals who are incapable of issuing moral condemnation of a coup. . “How is this possible after 50 years?” he asked.
The domain of disagreement was also virtual. ExAnte portal recorded 300,000 mentions of Allende on X in recent days. The figure on Facebook is much larger. Meanwhile, Pinochet was mentioned 200,000 times but received only half the reactions.
According to Allende’s Minister of Mining, Jorge Arrate, the opposition distance has an intentionality that relates not only to the past, but also to the present and the desires of the conservative field to return to power in 2026 in connection with Magna Carta. to his own ideological universe. “They want to do the same thing they did to President Allende: to make President Boric his victim. The victim of the mistakes he made, the victim of what he said, the victim of having accompanied the pilgrimage (the procession that ended with the events on Sunday). This also happened during the term of this Government. Whether yes or no, the right and the far right criticized President Boric’s government, no matter what the president did. “There is always an angle where they hit and bombard La Moneda with slander and extreme or inaccurate political assessments.”