Por la vida siempre is the title of the exhibition with 18 posters and texts against the civil war, which warned of the dangers of the overthrow of the government of popular unity and the rise of fascism.
The unfinished exhibition, entrusted to the Secretary of Extension and Communications of the then State Technical University (UTE), was attacked by the military with heavy artillery the day after the La Moneda Palace, the seat of the President, was bombed.
Fifty years later, Usach reopened this exhibition at his headquarters in the capital, attended by Chilean President Gabriel Boric, ministers and other government officials, authorities, teachers and students, and families of the victims of the dictatorship.
In his speech, Boric recalled that on 9/11 not only the exhibition was canceled but also the announcement Allende would make that day about the call for a referendum, according to audio recordings by then Secretary of State Orlando Letelier released recently here .
The President thanked Usach for keeping the memory alive, which he said allows us young people to remember where we came from and where we are going.
At the event, professor and graphic designer Mario Navarro recalled that 88 members of this House of High Sciences are on the list of people imprisoned, disappeared and politically executed during the Augusto Pinochet regime (1973-1990).
“Now we are restoring the exhibition in its original format to honor all those who worked for university reform and the project of a democratic, just and solidary country,” he said.
The exhibition is part of the activities organized on the occasion of the half-century of the coup d’état, in which artists such as Isabel Parra, Manuel Meriño, Cuncumén, members of the Inti Illimani group, as well as from Quilapayún and Nano Stern, among others, participated inside.
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