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The photos of the plebiscite in Chile against Pinochet

2020-10-23T21:47:45.202Z


Photographers who documented human rights violations during the dictatorship tried to protect themselves “behind the camera


  • 1Advertising campaign in favor of the 'yes' that would give continuity to the power of Augusto Pinochet.

    Photo in a periphery of Santiago de Chile, 1988.

  • 2Because of Pinochet's fraud in the 1980 plebiscite, which imposed its Constitution, in 1988 some of the opposition feared that voting would mean participating in the general's new fraud.

    Photo on the outskirts of Santiago, 1988.

  • 3Demonstration for 'yes', in 1988.

  • 4Photo in the upper-class neighborhood of Vitacura, Santiago.

  • 5Repression against protesters on May 1, 1988, in San Joaquín, Santiago.

  • 6Campaign for 'no' by the opposition movement Mujeres por la Vida.

    "We need each other to end this national drama," they wrote in 1986.

  • 7Pinochet handed over thousands of homes to the most vulnerable before the plebiscite.

    Photo from 1987 south of Santiago.

  • 8Demonstrators for the 'yes', in Santiago de Chile, in 1988.

  • 9Demonstrators for the 'no' in Santiago.

  • 10 “Joy is coming,” read the 'no' campaign logo.

    Campaign volunteers in 1988.

  • 11In front of the polling station at the National Stadium, a detention and torture center after the 1973 coup d'état. It is estimated that about 20,000 people were there.

  • 12 Row to vote in Santiago, a city in which gigantic queues formed and some delays in the formation of the tables to cast the vote.

  • 13Voting location in Cerrillos.

  • 14 Counting of votes in the Chilean capital.

  • 15Two years after the victory, the poet Nicanor Parra in a poetry class at the University of Chile.

  • 16An image of the capital of Chile.

Source: elparis

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