Abstract
The earthquake that Chile suffered in February 2010 suspended the celebrations of the nation's bicentennary and diverted the energy of most Chileans into tasks of mourning and reconstruction. This article revisits Bernardo Subercaseaux's suggestion about the Centennary as a fractured spectacle, in order to trace a narrative that challenges the received wisdom of a Chile in which progress could flourish undeterred by the political passions experienced by the rest of Latin America. On balance, however, in 1910 just as in 2010, the liberal-romantic paradigm about the inevitablity of Chilean progress entails a large number of paradoxes.
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