Tag: Chile

On the Verge of Venom: Literature as Forgiveness in Latin America

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Chris Schulenburg In the end of her startling testimony The Inferno: A Story of Terror and Survival in Chile, Luz Arce converses with the Truth and Reconciliation Commission lawyer Carlos Fresno about the possibility of forgiving her past government captors. Years after absorbing torture, and ultimately collaborating with, Chile’s secret police (DINA), Arce certainly found …

The Alliance for Progress, A Wisconsin Perspective

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Alec Armon In 1965, a representative from Wisconsin stood before residents of La Ligua, a town in Central Chile, to inaugurate a neighborhood that would bear the U.S. state’s name after it was rebuilt in the wake of an earthquake. According to the speaker, the newly constructed homes at Villa Wisconsin, as it was called, …