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Artículo publicado en La Tercera (periódico chileno) sobre la muestra de Memoria Desierta en la Cineteca Nacional de la Moneda en Santiago de Chile (27 de Junio del 2007).
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*Los siguientes artículos están en inglés. Estaban públicados en el periodico inglés en Chile: Santiago Times.
CHILE’S CHACABUCO PROJECT EXPLORES PINOCHET PRISON CAMP’S GRIM PAST by Will Sherman. Published in the Santiago Times, Santiago, Chile (June 4, 2006).
There’s a sign outside the abandoned city of Chacabuco that tells the history of this salitrera nitrate mining center in Northern Chile. But the story ends in 1971, when President Allende declared Chacabuco a National Monument. Read the full article at the Santiago Times (link no longer available at the Santiago Times).
MEMORY REMOVAL IN FORMER CHILE CONCENTRATION CAMP - OPERATION CLEANUP by Will Sherman. Published in the Santiago Times, Santiago, Chile (June 11, 2006).
The city planning in Chacabuco is diabolically precise. Founded by a British mining firm looking to pick up slack in the sunset of the nitrate boom, it’s a model work camp, an imperial gem with a place for everything, and everything in its place. Read the full article at the Santiago Times (link no longer available at the Santiago Times).
CHILE’S HISTORIC NITRATE MONUMENT STILL BEING PILFERED by Will Sherman. Published in the Santiago Times, Santiago, Chile (June 18, 2006).
For decades, foreign companies in Chile scraped nitrate off the desert’s skin to fuel massive agricultural development in the northern hemisphere. The mines were integral to the Chilean economy, and their brutal working conditions spawned leftist movements that define, in part, Chilean politics and culture to this day. Read the full article at the Santiago Times (link no longer available at the Santiago Times).
FILM TO BE MADE IN CHILE ABOUT PINOCHET-ERA DESERT PRISON CAMP by Niles Atallah. Published in the Santiago Times, Santiago, Chile.
Jorge Montealegre, a Pinochet concentration camp survivor, uses his eyes more than his lips to smile. Sitting next to his desk in downtown Santiago, he talks about what it was like to be a political prisoner in Chile over three decades ago. He has a deep voice and punctuates his words with a serious nod. Lining the walls of his study are numerous comic books – Chile’s equivalents to Garfield, Mafalda and Calvin and Hobbes. Read the full article at the Santiago Times (link no longer available at the Santiago Times).
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