Chile: a troublesome legacy

Chile has in its history one of the bloodiest dictatorships in Latin America. On September 11, 1973, General Pinochet put an end to the Chilean path to socialism dreamed by Salvador Allende in a bloodbath.
 

Until the 2000s, in a region of the world that was more than politically, economically and socially unstable, Chile was an exception.
 

Yet, 50 years after the country's darkest period, and while universal suffrage has set the pace for political life for more than thirty years, the ghosts of those sinister years still haunt Chileans. Thus, in the fall of 2019, an eruption of popular discontent brought to power a president determined to turn the tables. Yet, paradoxically, the voters have just refused to end the Constitution in place since the dictatorship.
 

We aim to revisit this troublesome legacy in the light of the most recent historiography. By drawing a mirror between several eras, several generations, we'll highlight the ideological impasse that the country is going through.