Letters from Chile: A photo gallery

06 July 2012 – Zachary McKiernan

international, politics, Letters from Chile, preservation, social justice, public engagement, memory, museums, government, human rights

In addition to the photos that have accompanied Zach McKiernan’s “Letters from Chile” series this spring, there have been many more that we didn’t post with the articles, but which we’re including here in a visual addendum to the series. All are by the author unless otherwise noted.

Mural at José Domingo Canas. It reads “Peace was a dove and around the vultures…black sheep”

An activist preparing the weekly and now decade-long running velatonoutside of Jose Domingo Canas 1367

Nido 20’s activist-historian Erika Spuler preparing for a meeting with Diputado (Congressman) Tucapel Jimenez (whose father was assassinated in 1982) concerning a law to prevent public homages to human rights violators, state funding for sites of memory, and a sites of memory lobby

Escotilla 8 intervention, just visible in memorial area at center left, during an international soccer match

: Visitors on a “memory route” tour at the National Stadium

Theatre guests in the “women’s locker room” of the National Stadium minutes before the “Once Upon Time… a King, 571 Days of a Political Prisoner” performance.

Sketchings, handicrafts, and letters made in the detention centers of 3 Alamos, Ritoque, and Puchcuncavi

“Letters from Chile” author Zach McKiernan with two RMEPP members during the International Human Rights Day commemoration

: Purportedly the original parrilla (or grill) used for torture at José Domingo Cañas site, with anti-US imperialism painting in the background

Metropolitan Region of ex Political Prisoners (RMEPP) president Wally Kunstmann holding court during a visit with high school students.

Sign on the front of Nido 20

Interior of Nido 20

Exhibits inside Nido 20

Memorial Paine entranceway

Tree shadows and mosaics at Memorial Paine

: The “forest” at Memorial Paine

Three people from Nido 20 considering the last physical remnant of a torture house that was torn down. it was known as Nido 18 and was also operated by comando conjunto.

Members from Codepu, Casa Memoria Jose Domingo Canas 1367, Villa Grimaldi, and Nido 20 arriving at La Moneda to submit a letter to Chile’s President protesting the June 2012 Pinochet homage (Photo: Italo Retamai)