Abstract
In this interview, historians Mario Garcés Durán and Peter Winn discuss the emergence of the estallido social, or social uprising, that began in Santiago de Chile in October 2019 and quickly spread throughout the country. The two historians also consider connections between past and present, in particular the legacies of the Popular Unity revolution (1970–3), in which both were active participants.
Highlights
Historians Mario Garcés Durán and Peter Winn discuss the emergence of the estallido social, or social uprising, that began in Santiago de Chile in October 2019 and quickly spread throughout the country
Open town hall meetings, and neighbourhood assemblies – and just one day after the feminist march of 8 March 2020 – North American historian Peter Winn sat down in Santiago to talk with Mario Garcés Durán, an historian at the University of Santiago and the Director of the Chilean NGO Educación y Comunicaciones (Education and Communication, ECO)
Their discussion focused on the emergence of the estallido social, or social uprising, that began in October 2019 and quickly spread throughout the country
Summary
Historians Mario Garcés Durán and Peter Winn discuss the emergence of the estallido social, or social uprising, that began in Santiago de Chile in October 2019 and quickly spread throughout the country. In today’s citizen movement the middle class is much more present, which is interesting because that was precisely the factor of greatest weakness for the UP; it was where the right managed to generate a type of anti-UP, anti-socialist social movement, and I think, today we are in that sense in a slightly different place.
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