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Tres Sillas (‘Three Chairs’)
Monument to brutal 1985 murder of communist militants in Quilicura, Santiago de Chile
NOT FORGOTTEN: (Top left) Santiago Nattino Allende, (top right) Manuel Guerrero Ceballos and (bottom left) Jose Manuel Parada Maluanda
[Tres Sillas image: Museum of Memory and Human Rights Chile and portraits of the victims: elsiglo.cl]
SIMON DUFF relishes the cross contamination of Damien Hirst’s greatest hits by street artists from France and the US
In view of the grooming gangs inquiry, SIMON PARSONS feels the relevance of this powerful examination of trauma suffered at Medomsley Youth Detention Centre
JOHN GREEN doubts the motivations of a US war photographer who never questions why, or for whom, she is producing images of imperialist conflict
MARIA DUARTE reviews Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere, Hedda, The Mastermind, and Regretting You
TONY CONWAY welcomes a thrilling and concise history of Hope not Hate, that is also a manual full of tactical advice
PAUL DONOVAN welcomes an inspiring account of living with deafness that has important lessons for the treatment of deaf people in today’s UK
AT THE north-western edge of Chile’s capital Santiago lies the neighbourhood of Quilucura. In the Mapuche language of Mapudungun, Quilucura means “three stones” and refers to the three hills that separate it from the Renca neighbourhood.
That number, however, came to take on the most gruesome of associations.
On March 28 1985, Santiago Nattino Allende, Manuel Guerrero Ceballos and Jose Manuel Parada Maluanda, three militants of Chile’s Communist Party, were abducted by agents of Carabineros de Chile, the federal police, tortured and later had their throats cut in cold blood.
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RON JACOBS welcomes an investigation of the murders of US leftist activists that tells the story of a solidarity movement in Chile
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