The dictatorship in Chile: a narrative boarding to the regime of terror of Pinochet

Abstract

During decades everything what concerns the Chilean dictatorship was a fertile field for the literature, and the journalism. This dictatorship included from September 11, 1973 until March 11, 1990. In the journalistic - literary context we propose a tour that goes from the plots to put end to the government of Salvador Allende up to the restoration of the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet, who was characterized by the restoration of a regime of terror and cruel attempts to the human rights. Particularly, the journalistic contemporary chronicle endows a statement that seeks to rescue the memory with own tools of the field of the literary fiction. Of this form we approach García Márquez's chronicle on the intrigues to the government of Allende. In addition we consider the murder of one of the icons of this process since he was the musician Víctor Jara, the chronicle that we analyze was written by Juan Christopher Peña. Finally, we propose a chronicle that reports the approximation with the dictator Augusto Pinochet in the west of his life written by the American Jon Lee Anderson. We think that the analyzed texts offer a different perspective to bring over and to know the complex Chilean reality of the epoch from a journalistic - literary look.