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Diálogos Revista Electrónica de Historia
On-line version ISSN 1409-469X
Abstract
SEPULVEDA CHAVEZ, Miguel Ángel. Mechanisms of power and control in Osorno City during the military dictatorship period, 1973-1990. Diálogos rev. electr. hist [online]. 2015, vol.16, n.1, pp.215-239. ISSN 1409-469X.
The following research aims to describe the mechanisms of power and control used in Osorno during the military dictatorship period. Having as an implicit fact being the first approach to an investigation that tries to understand the process of resistance lived in the city during the dictatorial period. The military coup d’état in September 11th in 1973 and the establishment of a seventeen-year dictatorship in Chile, was an event that marked the Chilean society. During those times, it was tried to bend the truth about the violent acts performed against all the opponents of the Military Regime. Systematic violations of Human Rights, segregation, social inequality, establishment of the neoliberal system, among others; are just some of the main effects, which were supported by a variety of control mechanisms used by the Chilean State. Methodologically, it would turn to specializing bibliography, books and articles about scientific magazines, samples of local daily press and also to interviews carried out to subjects that will be part of the process of repression.
Keywords : Power; control mechanisms; Osorno; military dictatorship.