Chilean redemocratization and the construction of historical memory through the Commissions of the Truth

Abstract

The historiographic research proposal entitled "History and memory: Chile in the tramas de la transición", is dedicated to the theme of the Chilean redemocratization from the 1991 and 2004 final reports of the Verdad Commissions of historical memories of the country in the face of human rights violations that took place in the 1973 authoritarian regime until 1990. We intend to analyze how Chile deals with past violations and how it relates to the mechanisms of political memory and transition justice between 1991 and 2006.

In this sense, our academic problem unfolds on how the final reports represent fundamental milestones in the process of redemocratization of the country, from where the debate about the transition remains very current and there are narratives about the past a recurring dispute in the public sphere of society, showing that disputes over the past are re-energized in the dynamic process of the present. Therefore, for this incursion, we launched an interdisciplinary look, relating the history, the memory and the field of the direction from the transition justice in the light of human rights.