Prensa, derecho y poder político

Exhibition in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the National History Museum in Santiago de Chile. The exhibition show, through 166 varied objects, not only the creation of the Museum, but also different cultural axes that inspired its creation and how the objects displayed (painting, photography, furniture, weapons, coins, textiles, documents, decorative arts, etc..) came from various collections, donations and purchases throughout time during the last century.

They have been complex in recent years for Chile, especially if we add corporate corruption and the discrediting of republican politics and institutions to the erosion of the government projects of the Concertación and the New Majority. Therefore, during a year of elections, critical reflection on the representativeness of the Poder Legislativo and, especially, the one hundred and twenty "honorable" representatives that allow or impede changes in our country become urgent. In this detailed and no less ironic analysis, the journalist Nancy Guzmán bares with humor what each deputy does and...

Un recuerdo puede diluirse con el tiempo y dejar sólo la sensación, la idea, el concepto. Un recuerdo puede borrarse a punta de calmantes, ansiolíticos, antidepresivos, somníferos, terapias, exceso de trabajo, mucha vida social y ocupaciones, pero hay cosas que se anclan en la memoria y que permanecen ahí esperando que uno tenga el valor suficiente para bucear en ellas.

"Desarrollo del conflicto entre el antes y el ahora, entre las ilusiones que existían previas al golpe militar de 1973 en contraste con la derrota y la clausura posteriores, relatado mediante una sobresaliente composición que le confiere a esta novela un lugar destacado en el bienio 1996-97"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.