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Dawson Isla 10

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Il golpe militare dell'I 1 settembre 1973 segnò per sempre la storia del Cile e del suo popolo. Sergio Bitar, allora giovane ministro delle Miniere, fu rinchiuso nell'inospitale Isola Dawson, il più meridionale campo di concentramento della storia. Insieme a lui vennero imprigionati i più stretti collaboratori del presidente ministri, alti dirigenti dei partiti di governo, sindacalisti, intellettuali, militari. L'autore scrisse il libro di getto nei mesi immediatamente successivi alla sua detenzione. Gli interrogatori, i maltrattamenti e la quotidianità della prigionia, costituiscono non solo un'importante testimonianza storica e politica, ma anche una toccante vicenda umana. Da questo libro è stato tratto l'omonimo film del 2009. Introduzione di Walter Veltroni.

239 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 1987

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Sergio Bitar

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Sergio Bitar is a member and non-resident senior fellow at the Inter-American Dialogue and president of Fundación por la Democracia in Chile. At the Dialogue, Bitar directs the Global Trends & Future Scenarios Project.

Bitar served as the Minister of Mining under President Salvador Allende in 1973 and was detained under the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet, imprisoned in Dawson Island, and then forced into exile until 1984, living in Venezuela and the United States. He was a Visiting Fellow at the Harvard Institute for International Development from 1974 to 1976, a Visiting Fellow at the Smithsonian Institution’s Latin American Program from 1982 to 1983. After his return to Chile, he was elected president of the Party for Democracy in three occasions (1992-1994, 1997-2000, and 2006-2008) and served as a Senator from 1994 to 2002. In addition, he served as the Minister of Education under President Ricardo Lagos and Minister of Public Works under President Michelle Bachelet. He also founded the Latin American Center for International Economics and Politics (CLEPI), serving as its president from 1987 to 1993.

Bitar has published dozens of books and articles, including Chile Mas Allá del Bicentenario (Editorial Planeta, Santiago, 2009), Educación Nuestra Riqueza, Chile Educa para el siglo XXI (Editorial El Mercurio- Aguilar, Santiago, 2005), and Chile 1970-1973 (Editorial Pehuén, Chile, 1996 and 2001). His recent books include: El Gobierno de Allende, 3rd edition, 2013; Chile, Bolivia, Peru. Un Futuro Común, 2011; Dawson Isla 10, 13 ed, 2010; y Chile Mas Allá del Bicentenario, 2009. In 2016, Bitar received the national honor of “Engineer of the Year” by the Chilean College of Engineers Guild Association.

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23 reviews5 followers
July 9, 2025
debería ser lectura obligatoria, no por la calidad narrativa (que cumple), sino porque la brutalidad de lo descrito debería ser de conocimiento transversal. secuestrar a un puñado de políticos, altos cargos de la UP, en sus ropas primaverales santiaguinas y aprisionarlos en un campo de concentración en isla dawson, sin más abrigo, obligados a trabajos forzados brutales, incomunicados del exterior y de sus seres queridos, pasando hambre, alrededor de un año, es criminal.

me estremece no haber sabido mas que superficialmente de esto, considerándome informada de la dictadura chilena.

[el autor tiene publicado el pdf gratis]
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18 reviews4 followers
August 20, 2024
Este no es un relato que permite ilustrar, con claridad, toda la crudeza y maldad que hubo contra miles de persona durante la dictadura en Chile. Pero sí es un libro que ilustra con nitidez la discrecionalidad y arbitrariedad que se ejerció contra tantos otros al detenerlos, aislarlos, renegarlos y dejándolos al margen de sus vidas personales y sociales durante tanto tiempo, como fue el caso de quienes, junto a Sergio Bitar, estuvieron en la Isla Dawson.

Creo que este relato es excelente por muchas razones, entre ellas por el tono humano, franco y cercano que usa su autor, además de cierta justicia y amplitud de mirada de que se sirve para abordar las complejas relaciones personales que tocó vivir en esa época, nunca fáciles y siempre con distintas capas por develar.
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April 7, 2025
Escrito de manera sencilla y quizá ecuánime, el ex ministro describe sus vivencias en un campo de concentración en la dictadura chilena de Pinochet.
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