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The Inferno: A Story of Terror and Survival in Chile
- ISBN-10:
- 0299195546
- ISBN-13:
- 9780299195540
- Pub. Date:
- 06/30/2004
- Publisher:
- University of Wisconsin Press
- ISBN-10:
- 0299195546
- ISBN-13:
- 9780299195540
- Pub. Date:
- 06/30/2004
- Publisher:
- University of Wisconsin Press
The Inferno: A Story of Terror and Survival in Chile
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Overview
As a member of Salvador Allende's Personal Guards (GAP), Luz Arce worked with leaders of the Socialist Party during the Popular Unity Government from 1971 to1973. In the months following the coup, Arce served as a militant with others from the Left who opposed the military junta led by Augusto Pinochet, which controlled the country from 1973 to1990. Along with thousands of others in Chile, Arce was detained and tortured by Chile's military intelligence service, the DINA, in their attempt to eliminate alternative voices and ideologies in the country. Arce's testimonial offers the harrowing story of the abuse she suffered and witnessed as a survivor of detention camps, such as the infamous Villa Grimaldi.
But when faced with threats made to her family, including her young son, and with the possibility that she could be murdered as thousands of others had been, Arce began to collaborate with the Chilean military in their repression of national resistance groups and outlawed political parties. Her testimonial thus also offers a unique perspective from within the repressive structures as she tells of her work as a DINA agent whose identifications even lead to the capture of some of her former friends and compañeros.
During Chile's return to democracy in the early 1990s, Arce experienced two fundamental changes in her life that led to the writing of her story. The first was a deep spiritual renewal through her contacts with the Catholic Church whose Vicariate of Solidarity had fought for human rights in the country during the dictatorship. The second was her decision to participate within the legal system to identify and bring to justice those members of the military who were responsible for the crimes committed from 1973 to1990. Luz Arce's book invites readers to rethink the definition of testimonial narrative in Latin America through the unique perspective of a survivor-witness-confessor.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780299195540 |
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Publisher: | University of Wisconsin Press |
Publication date: | 06/30/2004 |
Series: | Living in Latin America |
Edition description: | 1 |
Pages: | 402 |
Sales rank: | 696,599 |
Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.10(d) |
About the Author
Table of Contents
A Note on This Translation | xi | |
Acknowledgments | xiii | |
Prologue | xv | |
Preliminary Thoughts | xix | |
Part 1 | ||
1. | ||
Early Experiences | 3 | |
In the GAP (Group of Personal Friends of the President) | 5 | |
Socialist Militant | 8 | |
GEA (Special Support Groups) | 10 | |
2. | ||
September 11, 1973 | 15 | |
3. | ||
Clandestine Life | 24 | |
A Personal Choice | 25 | |
Contact on Italia Avenue | 28 | |
Party Work | 29 | |
Ricardo Ruz Zanartu | 32 | |
4. | ||
At the Yucatan Detention Center | 35 | |
5. | ||
Tejas Verdes | 41 | |
6. | ||
Military Hospital (Hosmil) | 47 | |
Other Prisoners at the Hosmil | 52 | |
Conversation with the Assistant Director | 55 | |
The Chaplain and the Eucharist | 57 | |
7. | ||
Nightmare in the Bathroom | 59 | |
Rodolfo, Air Force Soldier | 61 | |
End of the First Detention | 63 | |
8. | ||
Freedom under Surveillance | 65 | |
9. | ||
Second Detention | 73 | |
My Grandfather | 76 | |
Private Rodolfo Under Interrogation | 82 | |
In the Tower at Villa Grimaldi | 85 | |
10. | ||
Back to the Yucatan Detention Center | 89 | |
Ricardo Lawrence Mires | 92 | |
Collaboration | 95 | |
Further and Further | 105 | |
11. | ||
Nightmares | 107 | |
Marcelo Moren Brito | 110 | |
At the Yucatan Detention Center Again | 112 | |
A Companero from the Party | 113 | |
Mario Aguilera Salazar | 114 | |
12. | ||
Another Detention Center | 117 | |
You Are Luz, I Will Be Sombra | 119 | |
Osvaldo Romo | 124 | |
Cuatro Alamos | 128 | |
The Unborn One | 129 | |
Part 2 | ||
13. | ||
Ollague Detention Center | 133 | |
14. | ||
Traitor and Whore | 142 | |
Palmira Almuna Guzman, "Pepa" | 146 | |
Lieutenant "Pablo" | 147 | |
15. | ||
My Lung Infection and My Last Meeting with My Brother | 151 | |
Thoughts at Ollague | 152 | |
Hunger for Bread | 154 | |
Seeing My Family | 154 | |
Female Personnel at Ollague | 155 | |
16. | ||
Lumi Videla Moya | 158 | |
Sergio Perez Molina | 164 | |
17. | ||
The Day Miguel Died | 166 | |
Alejandra's Suicide Attempt | 168 | |
Captain Ferrer, Alias "Max Lenou" | 169 | |
18. | ||
The Terranova/Villa Nova Grimaldi Detention Center | 173 | |
Another Christmas Present | 176 | |
Christmas 1974 | 177 | |
New Year's Eve at Terranova | 178 | |
Investigation | 183 | |
19. | ||
My Son and Family Court | 185 | |
Creating the Vampiro Group | 186 | |
Rolf Wenderoth Pozo | 187 | |
20. | ||
A Companero: "Joel" | 195 | |
Bill Beausire Alonso | 196 | |
Hugo Martinez, Alias "Tano" | 197 | |
The Eight from Valparaiso | 199 | |
Lautaro Videla's Arrest | 201 | |
Marcelo Moren Brito's Nephew | 202 | |
The Press Conference | 202 | |
The Little House Next to the Tower | 203 | |
21. | ||
Major Wenderoth's Trip | 204 | |
General Bonilla's Death | 206 | |
Alfredo Rojas's Arrest | 207 | |
Delia | 208 | |
Ariel Mancilla | 210 | |
Pedro Espinoza's Trip | 210 | |
22. | ||
The Cigarette Case | 212 | |
Leonardo Schneider, Alias "El Barba" | 217 | |
23. | ||
DINA Employee | 219 | |
"Marcos's" Escape | 220 | |
The Arrests of Ricardo Lagos, Exequiel Ponce, and Carlos Lorca Tobar | 221 | |
At the San Borja Towers | 222 | |
The 119 | 223 | |
An Incident with Fuentes Morrison | 224 | |
Battle on Malloco Street | 225 | |
24. | ||
Christmas at Terranova | 229 | |
Patricio | 230 | |
Hasbun and Contreras | 234 | |
Testimony before the United Nations | 234 | |
25. | ||
Analyst at the Department of Intelligence | 236 | |
Edgardo Enriquez Espinoza | 238 | |
OAS Meeting in Chile | 239 | |
Carmelo Soria | 240 | |
The DINA behind Criminal Acts | 240 | |
My Son's Visit with His Father | 241 | |
26. | ||
National Intelligence School | 244 | |
27. | ||
After the National Intelligence School | 253 | |
"Chaty," Army Second Lieutenant | 254 | |
Uruguayan Identity | 255 | |
Change from the DINA to the CNI | 257 | |
28. | ||
Colonel Contreras | 259 | |
29. | ||
Contreras's Promotion to General | 264 | |
Contreras Is Replaced | 267 | |
Michael Townley | 269 | |
Farewell Reception at the General's House | 270 | |
Incident with Colonel Pantoja | 272 | |
Rolf Wenderoth's Resignation | 273 | |
Interval in San Antonio | 275 | |
30. | ||
The CNI Investigates the DINA | 277 | |
Another Meeting with Pantoja | 278 | |
Colonel Suau | 279 | |
The Trial and the Incident with Colonel Concha | 281 | |
Part 3 | ||
31. | ||
In the CNI's Computer Unit | 287 | |
Peace and Instability | 289 | |
Letter of Resignation | 294 | |
Fragments of an Identity | 297 | |
32. | ||
Operation Celeste | 300 | |
An Incident at the Munchen Restaurant | 303 | |
Dolly's Place | 304 | |
Visitors from Chile | 307 | |
Trip to Santiago | 310 | |
Back to Montevideo | 311 | |
Return to Chile | 313 | |
Ricardo Ruz's Death | 314 | |
33. | ||
Meeting Juan Manuel | 316 | |
In Hiding Again | 319 | |
Pain and Happiness in My Family | 319 | |
Conversion and Father Gerardo | 321 | |
Father Jose Luis | 324 | |
34. | ||
Declaration before the National Truth and Reconciliation Commission | 326 | |
Carlos Fresno | 330 | |
Meeting with Erika and Viviana | 332 | |
35. | ||
In Europe | 336 | |
Above All a Christian | 337 | |
On Hatred and Reencounters | 338 | |
Gloria Olivares | 340 | |
The Chilean Bureau of Investigation | 341 | |
36. | ||
In the Courts | 343 | |
Encounter with Rolf Wenderoth Pozo | 344 | |
Encounters with Gerardo Urrich and Manuel Carevic | 346 | |
Basclay Zapata, Alias "El Troglo" | 348 | |
Fernando Lauriani | 350 | |
37. | ||
Miguel Krassnoff Martchenko | 354 | |
Face-to-Face with Marcelo Moren Brito | 355 | |
Encounter with Ricardo Lawrence Mires | 357 | |
Other Court Proceedings | 358 | |
38. | ||
Maria Alicia, Alias "Carola," Alejandra, and Luz | 360 | |
Dobra Lusic Nadal | 363 | |
"I Did Not Do This for Me Alone" | 364 | |
From Slavery to Freedom | 365 | |
How Can I Hate Someone Who Could Someday Be My Brother? | 366 | |
39. | ||
The Iron Fist | 371 | |
Index | 373 |