Las armas de ayer

"An interesting collection of speeches and writings from 1990-93 by the influential, but frequently embattled, 39-year-old leader of the moderate right-wing Renovación Nacional party. Of particular interest are his thoughts on the transition to democracy, human rights abuses and national reconciliation, economic and political development, and developments within the rival Christian Democratic party"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.

Catalog of books deposited in the library, and books by Chilean authors, or relating to Chile, published in other countries.

Detailed documentary of the Asociación de Fotógrafos Independientes that was created officially on June 19, 1981 with the signature of 29 Chilean independent photographers and ended in a symbolic act in mid-1993. The diverse and bountiful production of the collective under intense censorship and repression of the military regime was an incredible feat. The photography documented the social protest, repression, marginality, as well as the artistic material. Biographies of each of the photographers with their work and a chronology puts the work in historical context. This book is the first to ...

"No es la historia de los ropajes del poder y la víctima, tampoco, la restauración archivistita de la catástrofe, es lo que ha quedado entre, flotando en las locaciones del pensamiento que reproduce a golpes de chispazos y sonsonetes el dolor magro, hundido de los vencidos. En este libro, no son las grandes transformaciones o los procesos sociopolíticos los narrados -ellos tienen la costumbre de olvidar los cuerpos que sacrifican para realizarse-, sino que individuos solos, arrojados a la penumbra, detenidos por la poética paranoica de un sistema que necesitaba salir a cazar cuerpos para ...