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Santiago de Chile, October 1988. The South American capital is preparing to live a historic moment, is deciding on the dictator who for 15 years has taken the reins of longer and narrower in the world, Chile, with a sinister mix economic liberalism and bloody repression, beating out more than 40,000 victims, including cases of the disappeared, killed, and tortured political prisoners.
So the photo story of Cartagena Pedro Martinez, who lived firsthand the end of the Pinochet era and now on display in the Sea of Music on the occasion of the Special Chile festival begins.
The sample Chile, silent memorial was inaugurated Wednesday, a ceremony attended by the Councillor for Culture, Education and Equality, David Martinez Noguera, and can be seen in the Centro Cultural Ramón Alonso Luzzy until August 30 .
Chile, Memorial Silence is a summary of a journey that begins in the streets of Santiago memory.
The Chilean capital is awakened those propaganda carpeted days of each other, of those who are in favor of the continuation of Pinochet and those who want democracy for their country, the national plebiscite in 1888. The exhibition shows the bustle of Santiago boiling one divided between supporters of the Yes and the No to Pinochet.
They are images of Chile in black and white, an historical document on which seemed throes of dictatorship.
The photos show how the Chilean police cars blocked the streets where demonstrations are organized both signs.
The cops, serving the military government, especially batten with opposition groups clustered on a platform of concertation regime.
The photojournalist Pedro Martinez assists in Santiago's historic spectacle of people claiming their destination and there are the Chileans Yes, with banners that you talk about democracy, and the No, with your reasons for deaths and disappearances for justice and reparation.
Photographer will go where their professional instinct dictates and where he suggested many of these eager Chilean justice, silenced by the regime: the funeral of a young student killed by police, the meetings of mothers with children, grandchildren or friends already They will never return, acts of supporters not to pin their hopes of freedom in the international press.
And will also be on the street teatrillos organized to promote the macabre dictator.
Come and see Duarte Augusto Pinochet with his cloak as commander in chief of the armed forces, sometimes seeming empathy against a people who worship him and despised with the same intensity, others fleeing rushed to the barracks of La Moneda, shielded by an army of bodyguards.
Santiago de Chile, in October 1998. Ten years later the photographer returned to the capital.
He spent the effervescence of the plebiscite, the military unfortunate, senator and still in command of the army of his country, is in London where he retains a month international arrest warrant ago.
There is no more bitter joke that this character vital aging in his chambers while on the street are calling for the memory of genocide.
Pedro Martinez has returned to Chile and black and white photographs of a decade ago becomes ocher, bones and skulls of thousands of detainees missing in the autopsy rooms of the Forensic Medical Service where you try to identify them.
They are the images of where they are, the slogan that would lead to the twentieth century jump families of victims with wounds that never closed.
They are also the photos of the Spanish flags burned outside the embassy of our country, in response to the efforts of Judge Baltasar Garzon of realizing universal justice.
Pedro Martinez Rodriguez, Cartagena 1964
Professional photojournalist active since 1985. He has worked in regional media, truth, Diario 16 Murcia, and La Opinion (1991-2013) and collaborated with agencies and national media, including El Pais, La Vanguardia, Interviú, REA 11 and Time.
He is a member of the Association of Graphic Reporters of Murcia.
He now works as a freelance photographer and works with digital magazines Gurb and Chronicle.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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