2023-09-11 03:10:00
– Geneva commemorates fifty years of the Chilean coup d’état
Half a century following the events that shook the country, various events are organized in the canton.
Published today at 5:10 a.m.
Various events will be organized this Monday, September 11 in the Uni-Mail university building.
LUCIEN LUCKY
It was fifty years ago. On September 11, 1973, the Chilean government of socialist Salvador Allende was overthrown by a military coup led by General Augusto Pinochet. The democracy gave way to the dictatorship which lasted until 1990. An event always significant for all the Chileans who remained in the country or who emigrated to other countries, sometimes to Switzerland, as well as for their descendants.
On the occasion of this anniversary year, several Chilean and Geneva organizations formed the “Association “Chile Geneva 1973-2023” in order to prepare a commemoration. Among the founding organizations, we find the “Association of Chilean Residents of Geneva”, “New Generations Chile”, the “Commission to Support Original Peoples” but also the Geneva Socialist Party, the Greens and the Labor Party.
Round table and film
This Monday, September 11, various events will be organized within the Uni-Mail university building. The day will open at noon, in the central hall, with a round table moderated by journalist Benito Perez. The public will then be invited to the CUAE room, the student union, for a sound immersion in the last six months of Popular Unity. Then, around 6 p.m., silhouettes from the Garden of the Disappeared will arrive following a march from Place des Nations.
“Around 6 p.m., silhouettes from the Garden of the Disappeared will arrive following a march from Place des Nations.”
The day will end at 7 p.m., in the Alexei Jaccard auditorium. A room named in tribute to the Swiss-Chilean student, kidnapped in 1977 in Argentina before being imprisoned in Chile and disappearing. A commemorative act with journalist Jacques Pilet and former MP Erica Deuber Ziegler will precede an artistic performance with a song by tenor Jaime Caicompai.
Until September 14, an exhibition of 50 posters from the collections of the Memory and Justice Committee will also be visible in the Uni-Mail lobby. Note that on this same date, “La barque n’est pas plein” will be broadcast at 6 p.m. in building J of the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (Mamco), 10 rue des Vieux-Grenadiers. Followed by a debate, Daniel Wyss’ film returns to the civil disobedience movement which marked Switzerland to welcome Chileans in exodus, deemed too left-wing by the Confederation.
Léa Frischknecht is a PR journalist in the Geneva section. After a bachelor’s degree in Political Science at the University of Geneva, she obtained her master’s degree at the Academy of Media and Journalism at the University of Neuchâtel.More info
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