Las comisiones de verdad, sus narrativas y efectos en el largo plazo: disputas en torno a la representación de los perpetradores en la posdictadura chilena

Abstract

This article analyzes the narrative representations of human rights abusers produced by truth commissions in post-dictatorial Chile, with a focus on the Rettig Report (1991), as well as parts I and II of the Valech Report (2004 and 2010, respectively). This study also analyzes some of the responses, strategies and counter-narratives articulated within civil society as a reaction to official representations of perpetrators. Considering the asymmetry of these representations, I argue that as a whole they have been key to the construction of a moral space in post-dictatorial Chile.