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Elizabeth Quay Hutchison,
Thomas Miller Klubock,
Nara B. Milanich,
and Peter Winn, editors
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The
Chile
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H I S T O R Y , C U L T U R E , P O L I T I C S
Elizabeth Quay Hutchison, Thomas Miller Klubock,
Nara B. Milanich, and Peter Winn, editors
D U K E U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S Durham and London 2014
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he hile reader : history, culture, politics /
lizabeth Quay utchison, homas iller lubock, ara . ilanich,
and eter Winn, eds.
pages cm (atin merica readers)
ncludes bibliographical reerences and index.
ISBN 978-0-8223-5346-1 (cloth : alk. paper)ISBN 978-0-8223-5360-7 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1. hileistory. 2. hileivil ization.
3. hi leolitics and government.
. utchison, lizabeth Q. (lizabeth Quay)
. lubock, homas iller.
. ilanich, ara ., 1972
. Winn, eter.
. eries: atin merica readers.
3081.C485 2013983dc23
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ontents
cknowledgments xiii
ntroduction 1
IEnvironment and History 9
o etter and,Pedro de Valdivia 17
he oetry o lace: y ountry, Gabriela Mistral 21
razy eography, Benjamn Subercaseaux 25
atastrophe and ational haracter,Rolando Mellae 30
eorestation in hile: n arly eport, Claudio Gay 36
atastrophe in ewell,Pablo Neruda 42
all to onservation,Raael Elizalde Mac-Clure 45
n eense o the Forests,Ricardo Carrere 48ollution and olitics in reater antiago, Saar Van Hauwermeiren 52
II Chile beore Chile: Indigenous Peoples, Conquest,and Colonial Society 59
aleolithic Footprint 67
hinchorro: he Worlds ldest ummies 68
iaguita eramics 70
apuche extiles: ulture and ommerce 72
he nca eet the apuche, Garcilaso de la Vega 74
onquistador leads is ase to the ing,Pedro de Valdivia 80
xalting the oble avage,Alonso de Ercilla 85
ebating ndian lavery,Melchor Caldern and Diego de Rosales 92
o ell, ive, onate, rade, or xchange: ertication o ndian
nslavement 98
ortrait o ate olonial antiago, Vicente Carvallo y Goyeneche 102
From War to iplomacy: he ummit o apihue 109
he nsolence o eons,Mine Owners o Copiap 117
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III The Honorable Exception: The New Chilean Nationin the Nineteenth Century 121
evolutionary Journalist: Fundamental otions o the ights o
eoples, Camilo Henrquez 129n nglishwoman bserves the ew ation,Maria Graham 133
he uthoritarian epublic,Diego Portales 139
olitical atechism,Francisco Bilbao 143
iterature o ts wn:Martn Rivas,Alberto Blest Gana 147
he niversity and the ation,Andrs Bello 153
olish cientist among the apuche, Ignacio Domeyko 157
erman mmigrants in the outh, Vicente Prez Rosales 163
The Beagle Diary: eculiar ace o en, Charles Darwin 167ow to un an acienda,Manuel Jos Balmaceda 172
Franco-hilean in the aliornia old ush,Pedro Isidoro Combet 178
he Worst isery: etters to the antiago rphanage 183
ace o agabonds, Augusto Orrego Luco 186
IV Building a Modern Nation: Politics and the Social Questionin the Nitrate Era 193
udacious and ruel poilations: he War o the acic,Alejandro
Fierro 199
apuche hietain emembers acication,Pascual Coa 205
hile and ts thers 210
ace, ation, and the oto hileno,Nicols Palacios 213
itrates, ationalism, and the nd o the utocratic epublic, Jos Manuel
Balmaceda, Arturo Alessandri, and a popular poet 217
aniesto to the hilean eople,Democratic Party 224
od istributes is its nequally: n rchbishop eends ocialnequality, Mariano Casanova 227
Workers ovements and the irth o the hilean et,Luis Emilio
Recabarren 233
itrate Workers and tate iolence: he assacre at scuela anta ara
de quique,Elas Laertte 238
Women, Work, and abor olitics,Esther Valds de Daz 245
he ion o arapac, Arturo Alessandri 251
utocrats versus ristocrats: he ecay o hiles arliamentary epublic,Alberto Edwards 256
escuing the ody olitic: aniesto o a ilitary oup 259
he oet as reator o Worlds:Altazor, Vicente Huidobro 262
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other o hile? Womens urage and alle de lqui, Gabriela
Mistral 267
V Depression, Development, and the Politics o Compromise 273heir Work as aid the Foundation or reatness: hiles rab
ndustrialists 279
Is Chile a Catholic Country? Alberto Hurtado 284
old ysel ust Find Work, annot ontinue ere:
nterview with a ousehold Worker 289
Fundamental heoretical rinciples o the ocialist arty,Julio Csar
Jobet 293
ublic ealth risis, Salvador Allende 297rogress or ll ocial lasses: ampaigning or the opular Front,
Pedro Aguirre Cerda 301
ural Workers, andowners, and the olitics o ompromise, The League o
Poor Campesinos o Las Cabras and the National Society o Agriculture 305
A Case o Frustrated Development,Anbal Pinto 309
he ovement or the mancipation o hilean Women: nterview with
lena aarena 315
oetry and olitics:Memoirs and he eights o acchu icchu,PabloNeruda 320
iners trikes and the emise o the opular Front: .. tate
epartment ables 327
tates o xception,Elena Cafarena 331
he irth o a hantytown,Juan Lemuir 334
lein-aks: hiles First xperiment with eoliberalism 340
VI The Chilean Road to Socialism: Reorm and Revolution 343
etween apitalism and ommunism: ocial hristianity as a hird Way,
Eduardo Frei 353
roperty and roduction: amphlet romoting hristian emocracys
grarian eorm 356
he hristian et and ommunitarian ocialism,Jacques Chonchol and
Julio Silva Solar 362
he ew ong ovement: n nterview withnti-llimani 366
yrics o the ew ong ovement, Violeta Parra and Victor Jara 371
he lection o 1970 376
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he lection o alvador llende: eclassied .. overnment
ocuments 380
he apuche and akeoverat ucaln: nterviews with easants and
andowners 386
evolution in the Factory: nterviews withWorkers at the
arur otton ill 393
he hilean evolution ne ear n, Salvador Allende Gossens 400
Women ead the pposition to llende: nterview with armen
aenz 406
o hat hile an enew ts arch Forward, Chilean Business and
Proessional Associations 410
he emands o the eople,Movement o the Revolutionary Let 415
reasonous istory,A Group o Retired Generals and Admirals 420nited tates olicy and overt ction against llende, The Church
Committee 422
veryone nows What s oing to appen,Radomiro Tomc to
General Carlos Prats 426
hese re y Final Words, Salvador Allende Gossens 428
VII The Pinochet Dictatorship: Military Rule andNeoliberal Economics 433
iary o a oup,Peter Winn 443
n the yes o od and istory, Government Junta o the Armed Forces
and Carabineros o Chile 450
inochets aravan o eath,Patricia Verdugo 454
Women and orture,National Commission on Political Detention and
Torture 459
peration ondor and the ransnationalization o error, U.S. FederalBureau o Investigation 465
rotected emocracy and the 1980 onstitution,Jaime Guzmn 468
hantytown rotest: nterviews with obladores 474
here s o Feminism without emocracy,Julieta Kirkwood 482he ids o arrio lto,Alberto Fuguet 487
exuality and occer,Pedro Lemebel 493
ompeting erspectives on ictatorship as evolution,Joaqun Lavn
and Ernesto Tironi 498
he Whole World Was Watching: he 1988 lebiscite, The Observer Group
o the Latin American Studies Association 512
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VIII Returning to Democracy: Transition and Continuity 521
Justice o the egree ossible: he ettig eport,Patricio Aylwin
Azcar 527
urveillance Within and Without: The Custody o the Eyes,DiamelaEltit 534
egislating ender quality? oices rom ongress and ivil ociety 538
ender and exuality in ransition 544
he redit-ard itizen, Toms Moulin 547
hiles reatest ddition to the panish anguage: Huevn,John Brennan
and Alvaro Taboada 553
ever ooked or ower,Augusto Pinochet Ugarte 555
istorians ritique inochets nti-istory,Eleven ChileanHistorians 560
he apuche ation and the hilean ation,Elicura Chihuaila 568
rowth with quity,Alejandro Foxley 575
o onservative and et o odern? he olitics o oncertacin,
Alredo Jocelyn-Holt 581
he atholic hurch oday,Antonio Delau, S. J. 585
o ever gain ive t, o ever gain eny t: he alech eport on
orture,Ricardo Lagos 588
he hilean rmy ater inochet,Juan Emilio Cheyre Espinosa 592
La Seora Presidenta,Michelle Bachelet 595
he icentennial eneration 601
elected eadings 605
cknowledgment o opyrights and ources 613
ndex 623
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cknowledgments
work o this size and complexity requires that a great many people share
the editors painas well as their successin bringing the project to rui-
tion. he editors would like to start by expressing our gratitude to each
other or persevering in this project over the last decade. lthough nishing
this book has been a shared enterprise, many o our most important debtsare individual. iz utchison would thereore like to thank egina, ante,
asqual, ita, eth, Justin, iguel, ymm, Jason, am, eidi, ricka, ole,
and ara or their unwavering support. om lubock would like to thank
shan, iran, and andhya. ara ilanich thanks icola, iacomo, and
uca. eter Winn would like to thank than, asha, and ue or their pa-
tience and support.
his book would not have been possible without the support and gener-
osity o our many colleagues and riends, on whose specialized advice wehave relied to identiy and obtain many o the texts and images that make
up this book. his long list includes many o those named elsewhere in
these acknowledgments, as well as arjorie gosn, argarita lvarado,
isa aldez, erike loeld, renda lsey, ario arcs, lredo Jocelyn-
olt, atherine ite, ala tun, ara nglica llanes, Jadwiga ieper,
Julio into, ricka erba, ngela ergara, and oledad rate. lthough
the elected eadings indicate some o the vast bibliography we have re-
lied on or the books scholarly apparatus, we are particularly indebted torian oveman or his enduring work, Chile: The Legacy o Hispanic Capi-
talism, without which many more errors o act and interpretation would
have surely crept into our manuscript. We extend special thanks to col-
leagues who gave us access to their archival materials, ricka eckman
and eonardo eon, and to those who shared their original interview tran-
scripts, namely isa aldez, icardo alladares and lison ruey, Florencia
allon, and argaret ower. For permission to reprint excerpts o their
published interviews, we thank uis iuentes and ilar olina. We aredeeply indebted to colleagues who have authored major published collec-
tions o historical documents, including eter ornbluh, author o The
Pinochet File; oa orrea, onsuelo Figueroa, lredo Jocelyn-olt, lau-
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dio olle, and anuel icua, editors oDocumentos del siglo XX chileno;
ergio rez, editor oLa cuestin social en Chile: Ideas y debates precursores,
18041902; and to the curators and scholarly contributors to the hilean
ational ibrarys remarkable digital archive, Memoria chilena (www
.memoriachilena.cl).
lmost all o the selections in The Chile Readerare rom primary sources,
but licura hihuaila, Jacques honchol and Julio ilva olar, lejandro
Foxley, ergio rez and abriel alazar, Joaqun avn, and oms oulin
did grant us permission to publish translated excerpts o their longer works.
ost o the remaining texts selected or the book required permissions
granted by authors agents and publishers, including the ociedad hilena
de erechos de utor, LOM diciones, and ditorial niversitaria. ther
permissions were granted directly by the authors amilies or estates, suchas the rden Franciscana de hile, the amily o adomiro omic, and the
ictor Jara, ablo eruda, alvador llende, and Jaime uzmn ounda-
tions. We particularly wish to thank ngel arra or the rights to publish his
mothers work, as well as assistance with the nglish-language lyrics, and
Juan Flores or his generosity in granting rights to republish the translation
by his ather, ngel Flores, o enjamin ubercaseauxs Crazy Geography.
he guts o this bookits historical documentswere made possible by
a crew o translators who worked tirelessly to render them in nglish: wethank Justin elacour, nrique argun, yan Judge, imothy orek, Jane
osaw, elissa ann, revor artenson, arson orris, avid chreiner,
arolyn Watson, and John . White or their translations o this material.
We are particularly grateul to achel tein or her masterul work with
challenging colonial texts, to ea odrguez-alanta or expert translations
o literary materials, and to ricka erba and loria lvarez or rendering
poetry and song in beautiul nglish. ristina ordero, arin osemblatt,
liot Weinberger, and nrique apata also generously granted us the rightsto their excellent published translations o hilean texts. hese translations,
as well as the reproduction and permissions costs, were unded by generous
nancial support rom UNMs atin merican and berian nstitute and the
epartment o istory, uke niversity ress, and olumbia niversitys
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payments, and aren oniachik and aula acheco at olumbias lobal
enter in antiago, or their assistance in bringing The Chile Reader to abroader audience.
urningThe Chile Reader into a book that would provide readers with
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dozens o artists, photographers, and activists, as well as the agents, archi-
vists, and amily members who oten manage their work. lejandro ar-
ruel, Juan arlos ceres, om illehay, arcos onzlez aldz, lvaro
oppe, ugo nante, Fernando aldonado oi, arcelo ontecino, ic-
tor ugo obles, John pooner, avid ryse, pencer unick, and uido
argas gave us permission to publish their original photographs, while Jos
almes, uillo astias, and icardo orales allowed us to reproduce their
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oracio alinas (and ugusto and alena amaniego, who put us in touch
with him) or photos o nti-llimani; ario guirre aldonado or his a-thers historic photos o ewell (www.imagenesdesewell.cl); Fernanda u-
bio or her athers photos o laza ungay and inister llende; lizabeth
ira and iviana iaz or assistance with arpilleras; and ebastin os .,
or use o his grandathers lein-aks poster. We received extraordinary
help in securing reproductions and rights rom arolina uaznabar o the
useo istrico acional, Jimena osenkranz o the iblioteca acional,
lena amora o reamagen, arlena enna o the rchivo del rzobiz-
pado de antiago, and Father amuel Fernndez o the entro de studios yocumentacin adre urtado. uzanne chadl graciously provided access
to the am lick ollection o atin merican olitical osters at the ni-
versity o ew exico, while van oserup o the anish ational ibrary,
atie ishler o the rtists ights ociety, and erben van der eulen o
the nternational nstitute o ocial istory provided other reproductions.
he editors particularly want to thank arjorie gosn or generously al-
lowing us to place rma ullers remarkable arpillera on the books cover, as
well as photographer ddison oty and curator ey ariana unn o theational ispanic ultural enter or providing the reproduction or our
use.
uring the long gestation oThe Chile Reader, busy colleagues have in-
vested their time in reading our proposals, drats, chapters, and manuscript.
We deeply appreciate the support and eedback we have received rom John
inges, aul rake, rian oveman, aterina izzigoni, and Fernando ur-
cell; eidi insman has spent so much time with this book that she knows
it better than some o the editors! We thank ill elson or creating hisne maps o the long narrow country, and at the niversity o ew ex-
ico, iz utchison wishes to thank ellie aker, atricia ent, and licia
omero or their tireless work to obtain authors permissions; ana llison,
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olanda artnez, and arbara Waer or a variety o rescue operations; and
hawn ustin or his arduous labor on the index. For their help in obtaining
and processing copyright permissions at uke we thank anessa oriott
nderson, lena Feinstein, itch Fraas, hina edel, om obinson, sa-
bel ios-orres, egan Williams, and particularly orien live, who gave
so much time and heart to make this book turn out well. iriam ngress
has patiently shepherded this project through multiple editorial stages over
many years, and iz mith and hris rochetire have supported our work
at the production stage. artha amsey was a dedicated and sympathetic
copy editor. bove all, we warmly thank alerie illholland, senior editor
and creator o the eaders series, or her patience and heartelt devotion to
The Chile Reader. We hope that our whole community o colleagues, riends,
amily, translators, contributors, and publishers nds satisaction and rec-ompense in what we have created together.
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Intrductin
In Septeber 200, ater aking wrd headines with a ajr earthquake,
the inauguratin a new cnservative president, and the nging draa
thirty-three iners trapped undergrund, Chie arked its bicentenary
with an utpuring pubic ceebratins. Fr weeks bere and ater the
Septeber 8 natina hiday, Chiean edia bried with reectinsn the cuntrys 200 years natina ie. In cncerts and perrances,
ectures, and parades, and in the pages the press, Chieans exained,
ceebrated, and critiqued every aspect their histry and identity as a na-
tin. Majr pubic events, such as the inauguratin in Santiags Santa Luca
Parksite the rst Spanish setteent a cerative statue dedi-
cated t Chies indigenus pepes and sybicay returning t the
the parks ain paza, as regrunded signicant events and thees in
the natina ery. Especiay ntewrthy was the diversity perspec-tives represented; angside the rsters cia estivities a pethra
aternative events prierated whse rganizers prised a ess cnven-
tina, re critica visin the natin.
The bicentennia reectins nand cpeting arguents abutthe
past were by n eans a unique ccurrence. Ater the arrest the ex-
dictatr August Pinchet in 998 and again during a wave 20 student
prtests, Chieans engaged in passinate debates abut their sciety that
were siutaneusy debates abut the cuntrys past. The Chile Readertakes its cue r this ipuse t think abut the eanings natina his-
try and the reatinship Chies past and present.
Fr uch its histry, Chie has ebraced the ante exceptina-
isthe ntin that Chie is sehw diferent r its Latin Aerican
neighbrs. In recent years bth inside and utside Chie, in Latin Aerica
and beynd, this siver a cuntry has been tuted r its ecnic per-
rance, pitica stabiity, and dernity. In act, this aura histrica
exceptinais itse has a ng histry. During the cnia perid, Chiesdistinct character derived r its status as a rete backwater the
Spanish Epire, a cny pagued by a perpetua war with an unusuay
resistant indigenus ppuatin. In the eary nineteenth century, bserv-
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ers inside and utside the newy independent repubic bserved that Chie
had avided the vience and pitica chas that characterized st the
heispheres new natins, adpting a stabe and centraized, i authritar-
ian, pitica syste.
In the id-twentieth century Chiean exceptinais reached its peak.
Chie enjyed a reputatin as a de cuntry, a participatry decracy
that basted peaceu eectra pitics in a heisphere pagued by iitary
interventins in pitica ie. During the Cd War, Chie becae ne the
wrds key idegica battegrunds, bringing Savadr Aende t pwer
as the rst decraticay eected Marxist president in the wrd. This back-
drp as heps expain the gba ipact the cup 973, when that st-
ried decratic traditin et a bruta end at the hands the dictatrship
August Pinchet. Then again during seventeen years iitary rue,Chie was tuted as a de by bth critics and deenders the dictatr-
ship: a disturbing ebe the vient pitica repressin that swept the
regin at the height the Cd War, Chie was as seen as a success stry
neibera arket rer in Latin Aerica. The transitin t civiian
decracy in the 990swhich presented the rearkabe case a bruta,
ng-running dictatrship terinated thrugh a nnvient pebiscitehas
urther strengthened ntins Chiean exceptinais, as has the Chiean
ecnic irace, re than a decade high grwth with w inatinand a draatic drp in pverty. Tday, r any in Chie and beynd, the
cuntry enjys an enviabe status as a stabe, dern, capitaist decracy
withut peer in the regin.
The Chile Readerprbes this distinctive character, seeking t expain hw
and why, in the present as at key ents in the past, Chie has wed a
path that appears s diferent r that its Latin Aerican neighbrs. But
it as prbes exceptinais as yth, that is, hw particuar ideas abut
Chies exceptina character have been centra t natina identity and havebth eerged r and heped shape Chies histrica devepent. One
ga this vue is t hep readers recgnize these yths, the histry
n which they are buit, and hw they have served natinaist, cass, and
idegica agendas. Traveers and students cnteprary Chie wh are
uent in the stries Chieans te abut thesevesand that thers te
abut thewi be better abe t navigate the pitica and cutura terrain
the de cuntry in the twenty-rst century.
The Chile Readeris cpsed priary dcuents, incuding bth writ-ten texts and iustratins, spanning re than 500 years Chiean his-
try. Mst these wrks are by Chiean authrs, and any these are
pubished here in Engish r the rst tie. Brie intrductins accpany
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each dcuent, prviding histrica cntext and expaining its signicance.
Whie this signicance is in se cases bviusas in an 82 prcaatin
caing r independence r Spain r President Savadr Aendes na
radi address t the natinwe as present aterias that reect uncia
expressins and pints view. The Readerakes avaiabe interviews, iter-
ature, artwrk, cartns, crrespndence, aniests, ethngraphies, and
phtgraphs that reect the perspectives a wide variety pepe, dis-
senting views, and cntested eries the past. Thus we hear r Ma-
puche Indians and Spanish cnists, peasants and aristcrats, einists and
iitary strngen, entrepreneurs and wrkers, priests and pets. These
dcuentary seectins as prvide pints departure r readers t ex-
aine thees gender, cass, and ethnic reatins in Chie acrss tie. In
the end, this seectin is neither cprehensive nr exhaustive: rather, theeditrs have chsen ebeatic texts and iages that speak t thees such
as decracy, scia inequaity, ecnic devepent, the envirnent,
and ethnicity that are particuary reevant in tdays Chie.
The Reader is rganized arund a series recurring tensins inked t
the persistent narrative Chiean exceptinais. One the st endur-
ing these narratives has been the discussin ecnic dernizatin
and its recurring neesis, sciecnic inequaitythrughut Chies
natina perid. Chieans have been debating what it eans t be dernand hw t achieve ecnic devepent since the birth the natin.
This debate runs thrugh eary nineteenth-century strugges ver the eg-
acy Spanish rue, ver reign ecnic inuence, and ver the shape
that the state shud take. By the end the nineteenth century, Chie had
ebraced a surace dernizatin thrugh an ecny based n exprts
priary cdities t wrd arkets (ntaby cpper and nitrates). Yet
even as the eary twentieth century brught such apparent signs der-
nity as the grwth cities, the unding actries, and a bradeningpitica sphere, it as spurred critica vices wh cndened unreguated
capitaist devepents ther ace, incuding scia inequaity, deepening
pverty r any Chieans, and sharpening cass divisins. Cnicts ver
these very diferent visins hw t prduce ecnic dernizatin es-
caated thrughut the 960s and 970s, as Chie passed thrugh rerist
and revutinary sciaist attepts t generate devepent whie as in-
creasing scia equaity and pitica participatin, experients that ended
abrupty with the U.S.-supprted iitary interventin 973. A deningevent Chies natina histry, the cup brught t pwer a iitary dic-
tatrship that pursued a neibera ree-arket de r ecnic grwth,
which was argey aintained by the decraticay eected caitin gv-
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ernents that rued Chie r tw decades ater the end iitary rue in
990. In 200, Chie becae the rst Suth Aerican eber the Organi-
zatin r Ecnic Cperatin and Devepent, the eite cub thirty-
ur deveped natins. But recent studies shw it has the wrst ince
inequaity and st sciecnicay segregated educatina syste
any natin in that cub. The Readergives readers access t texts and iages
that dcuent the enduring tensins between ecnic dernizatin
and scia inequaity that have pagued Chiean devepent and arked
its pitica discurse.
A secnd and reated tensin evident in even a cursry reading Chies
natina histry is the cpeting pressure between authritarian and de-
cratic rs gvernance. Fr the cnservative cnstitutin the
eary repubic t the gegraphicay and adinistrativey centraized rce twentieth-century statehd, Chiean pitica eites and histrians aike
have auded the reative success their increasingy stabe, decratic, and
centraized state. The pweru yth Chiean decratic rue is see-
ingy cnred by its tw perids dictatrship (92793 and 973990),
which are viewed as exceptina; the yth as eides the deay univer-
sa sufrage t a its citizens (universa ae sufrage 887, eae sufrage
949). On cser exainatin the state and party ratin that under-
girds Chiean decracy, rever, histrians have nted the systeaticexcusin particuar grupssuch as the peasantryeven in perids
civiian rue. Chiean pitics in the twentieth century as evidenced the
cncentratin pwer in the hands a sa pitica and ecnic eite,
even as ppuar pitica participatin expanded under ppuist and revu-
tinary gvernents. Finay, athugh Pinchets regie institutinaized
authritarian practices, this state exceptin was in se ways unex-
ceptina, as Chie was rued thrugh states exceptin r siege r uch
its histry. In additin, the iitary exercised subte rs inuencen the pitica and ecnic ie the natin bth bere and ater the
dictatrship. Teingy, the renditin Chies natina histry prduced r
the bicentennia ceebratins by the new cnservative gvernent ended
bere Aendes sciaist gvernent, the iitary cup, and the seventeen-
year dictatrship, ignring ne the st sybicay pweru ents
in Chiean histry: the bbing the presidentia paace, La Mneda, a
syb Chiean decracy, by the iitary n Septeber , 973.
One the east exained the verarching tensins inring na-tina histry is the assertin that Chiein cntradistinctin t se its
csest neighbrsis cpsed an ethnicay hgeneus ppuatin.
In act, this natina attribute has ng been invked t expain its pitica,
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ecnic, and iitary achieveents. Reegating indigenus ppuatins
and their histries either t the past as cnquered pepes r arginaiz-
ing their signicance in the present, Chiean natin-buiding has typicay
hgenized ethnic diference and et Mapuches and ther native and
Arican-descended grups ut the natina narrative. This tendency was
st ceary expressed by se turn--the-twentieth-century inteectuas,
wh advcated Eurpeanizatin and viewed Chies indigenus ppuatin
as an ipedient t prgress, whie thers ceebrated Chies Indian war-
rir rts and vaunted the estiz ppuatin as the basis the natins
iitary triuphs and ptentia ecnic success. Even in the atter view,
hwever, the gries the Mapuche were reegated t a distant past and na-
tinaist writers ked rward t the bigica and cutura absrptin
Mapuches int a natina, ethnicay estiz citizenry. The excusin theMapuche, wh cpse 0 percent the Chiean ppuatin, r bth
the cuntrys decracy and r the ruits ecnic dernizatin
was again evident in the cuntrys bicentennia ceebratins. Even as the
Chiean state returned the Santa Luca hi t the Mapuche, ast every
ajr eader the gvernent, incuding the president hise, were en-
jying a re cnventina bicentennia ceebratin in the city Vaparas
where the Cngress is cated, denstrating the inia iprtance they
attributed bth t Mapuche histry and Mapuches current cnditin as aarginaized ethnic inrity.
By cntrast, Chies iigrant ppuatins, thugh saer than thse
se its neighbrs, have received greater recgnitin. A pace has been
ade in the natina iaginary r iigrant cunities (r Geran
arers in the suth t Paestinian anuacturers in Santiag and British
ining entrepreneurs in the nrth). The cutura and racia cntributins
Nrth Aericans and Eurpeans t natina prgress have been ceebrated.
The Chile Readeraddresses the histrica rts, as we as degraphic andcutura efects, this ethnic diversity, a part Chies histry that reveas
a variety distinct cutura and regina identities and inrs episdes
territria, ecnic, and reigius cnict. By exaining the varied his-
try ethnic cunities in the Chiean natin and iustrating hw racia
hierarchies and ethnic diferences have structured Chiean ntins cass
and natin, the Reader prepares readers t engage thughtuy with the
ways Chieans haveand have ntcnrnted the pitics ethnic di-
erence in the past and the present.In apparent cntrast t current schary trends that ephasize gba
and transnatina raes anaysis, The Chile Reader, ike a the readers
in the Duke series, is rganized arund a natin. This cntrast, which we
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suggest is as apparent, pints t yet anther tensin that has arked Chie
thrughut its histry, that between isatin and gba insertin. Since
cnia ties Chies gegraphic isatin has been requenty highighted;
the territry has ten been described as a ng, thin siver enveped be-
tween the ridabe peaks the Andes and the vast expanse the Pacic,
cut f t the nrth by the hstie Atacaa Desert, the wrds driest, and
t the suth by the rete and rbidding ands and waters Patagnia,
Tierra de Fueg, and Antarctica. This pecuiar gegraphy served as the ba-
sis r the regins adinistrative isatin under Iberian rue and ater as
the tepate r territria cais ade by the Chiean natin-state against
neighbring Argentina, Bivia, and Peru. But such isatin asks a his-
trica reaity vita gba cnnectins between Chie and the rest the
wrd, cnnectins that ng predate ate twentieth-century gbaizatin,athugh they have utipied greaty in recent decades. Cais t isa-
tin (and by ipicatin, exceptinais) are beied by evidence regina
trade netwrks, trans-Andean indigenus cunities in the suth, i-
gratin and territria expansin in the nrth, and ceanic shipping net-
wrks that cnnected Vaparas t prts in Nrth and Suth Aerica,
Eurpe, Austraia, and East Asia. In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries,
Chies ecny reied n substantia reign investent and trade, ink-
ages that have shaped everything r the natins ethnic cunities tits scia and pitica veents. During the nineteenth century, British
erchants, wh wud ce t cpse se Chies eading aiies,
payed a centra re in the ecny and sciety, dinating trade and exer-
cising cnsiderabe inuence in banking, rairads, and even nitrate prduc-
tin, whie during the twentieth century U.S.-wned cpper ines in the
Andes and Atacaa desert prduced the cuntrys ajr surce reign
revenue. The tensin between natina isatinis and gba integratin
was particuary evident during the iitary regie, whse vient excessesdrve a dipatic wedge between Chie and the internatina cunity
and whse rigid censrship isated Chie cuturay, even as the regie
ebraced a de neibera ecnic integratin. Since the return t
decracy in 990, this integratin with regina and gba arkets has
ny increased. AReaderdedicated t a natina histry reains reevant
in an increasingy gba and transnatina wrd: the stry Chies eer-
gence as a natin iustrates hw deepy the stry natins is predicated n
internatina ws pepe, ideas, and capita. This natina histry as i-uinates iprtant cparative and regina diensins in the cuntrys
natina devepent, reveaing dynaics and reatins that denstrate
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Chies siiarity with, as uch as exceptin r, brader regina and
wrd histrica devepents.
Athugh The Chile Readeris a substantia te, we hpe that it wi serve
students and traveers new t Chie as a aithu and useu cpanin in
their jurneys, bth actua and iagined. The Reader is therere bth a
t and a pint entry that can be apprached in utipe ways: read r
cver t cver, digested in dcuentary seectins n a particuar thee,
r expred thrugh a singe chrngica chapter abut an era particu-
ar interest. Whatever nes apprach, chapter and dcuent intrductins
wi rient ne t the key events, actrs, and ents in Chiean histry
and sciety. A ntes, ther than thse indicated as written by a texts authr
r transatr, are by the editrs this vue. We as hpe thisReaderwi
be interest t experienced teachers and speciaistseven i they take is-sue with certain seectins and interpretatins. Finay, The Readerbenets
enrusy r the extensive crpus schary wrk n which it draws.
Readers are encuraged t cnsut the seected readings t access the rich
and inrative scharship n Chie that wi enabe the t deve deeper
int its histry and expre new thees and ther perspectives.
By adpting a histrica perspective and epying priary surces, The
Chile Readerpresents Chies any vices and aws readers t ake deci-
sins r theseves abut the cpex reaities behind Chies career as ade r Latin Aerica and t judge r theseves the debates ver its
past and present. The authrs, histrians r the United States with ng
experience in research, scharship, and teaching abut Chie and Latin
Aerica, have earned r and cntributed t Chieans nging efrts
t understand and interpret that cuntrys past. They have sught thrugh
their writing and teaching t deepen U.S. understandings the regin and
the U.S. re in its histry. Thse efrtsike this bkhave cntributed
t the critica reebering Chies past, bth within Chie and r U.S.audiences accusted t narratives U.S. exceptinais and Latin Aeri-
can ineririty, vience, and victiizatin. The histry Chie, ike any
ther natina histries suth the Ri Grande, prvides an iprtant
vantage pint r which U.S. readers ay nt ny earn abut this ng,
thin cuntry, but as think criticay abut their wn cuntryand its wn
cais t exceptinais. As ur Chiean ceagues have expressed s we,
histry is prjectin. It is the scia cnstructin uture reaity.1
Note
. Sergi Grez and Gabrie Saazar,Mannifesto de historiadores (Santiag: lom , 999), 9.