Journey into my country's political past

 

Hello!

Today I want to tell you a curiosity of mine.

 

I think I would like to travel to the time of the Unidad Popular in Chile. It seems to me a very important and conflictive part of the history of my country. I am especially inspired by Patricio Guzman's documentary, The Battle of Chile, where we can see the reflection of a highly organized and politicized society, with a lot of hope, but also a lot of fear and conflict. I feel that being able to see and live that experience in first person would mean being able to understand many of the country's actual historical processes, and I would also like to know a time where there was a lot of culture, to have participated in the popular train of culture that traveled from north to south of this country.

But I am very clear that I would not like to stay in that moment of history at all, everything that comes after is something terrible and very painful for our country. To feel a lot fear, or that disappointment, must have been something terrible, but I also believe it is necessary as an exercise of memory to understand how the panorama is today, very close to a second presidential round. I believe that Chile has recently started a political process of reforms and this generates the possibility for people to be informed, discuss, participate and organize themselves. All this current process, that sometimes looks like it is lost, seems to me a beautiful experience that I am excited to live.

 

thanks for reading me again.