Justifying the Chilean Coup. The Operations of the Past in the Gonzalo Vial’s Political and Historiographical Writing

This article analyzes the political-historiographical evolution that the conservative historian Gonzalo Vial went through to justify the 1973 coup in Chile. The main milestone in this regard was his participation in the Libro Blanco del cambio de gobierno en Chile (White Book of the Change of Govern...

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Autores principales: Casals, Marcelo, Villar, Gorka
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spelling I26-R133-article-113642022-11-15T13:34:42Z Justifying the Chilean Coup. The Operations of the Past in the Gonzalo Vial’s Political and Historiographical Writing Justificando el golpe chileno. Las operaciones del pasado en los escritos políticos e historiográficos de Gonzalo Vial Casals, Marcelo Villar, Gorka Dictadura Chile Justificación Historiografía Gonzalo Vial Dictaduras Chile Contrarrevolución Anticomunismo Propaganda Historiografía Dictatorship Chile Justification Historiography Gonzalo Vial This article analyzes the political-historiographical evolution that the conservative historian Gonzalo Vial went through to justify the 1973 coup in Chile. The main milestone in this regard was his participation in the Libro Blanco del cambio de gobierno en Chile (White Book of the Change of Government in Chile), one of the most outstanding operations of historical manipulation aimed to legitimize the military dictatorship. We argue that Vial used the same interpretive matrix to justify the coup d'état and the subsequent repression both in his political interventions and in his historiographical production before and after 1973. This interpretation was based on certain constant principles throughout this entire period: the thesis of the sustained decline of the nation, the breakdown of consensus and the imminence of a civil war. This type of legitimizing discourses of the coup achieved public projection not only through his journalistic and historiographical work, but also in particularly sensitive state initiatives such as the so-called Comisión Rettig (Rettig Commission). In this way, the initial manipulation was followed by an intellectual rationalization that did not renounce to the objective of historically justifying the existence of the military dictatorship. Este artículo analiza el devenir político-historiográfico por el que transitó el historiador conservador Gonzalo Vial para justificar el golpe de Estado de 1973 en Chile. El principal hito al respecto fue su participación en el Libro Blanco del cambio de gobierno en Chile, una de las más destacadas operaciones de manipulación histórica para legitimar a la dictadura militar. Proponemos que Vial utilizó la misma matriz interpretativa para justificar el golpe de Estado y la represión posterior tanto en sus intervenciones políticas como en producción historiográfica anterior y posterior a 1973. Dicha interpretación se basó en principios constantes a lo largo de todo este período: la tesis de la decadencia sostenida de la nación, la ruptura de los consensos y la inminencia de una guerra civil. Ese tipo de discursos legitimadores del golpe lograron proyección pública no sólo a través de su obra periodística e historiográfica, sino también en instancias estatales particularmente sensibles como la llamada Comisión Rettig. De esa manera, a la manipulación inicial le siguió una racionalización intelectual que no renunció al objetivo de justificar históricamente la existencia de la dictadura militar. Universidad Nacional del Litoral 2022-11-08 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion application/pdf application/zip https://bibliotecavirtual.unl.edu.ar/publicaciones/index.php/Contenciosa/article/view/11364 10.14409/rc.10.12.e0017 Contenciosa; Núm. 12 (10): Contenciosa; e0017 Contenciosa; No. 12 (10): Contenciosa; e0017 2347-0011 10.14409/rc.10.12 spa https://bibliotecavirtual.unl.edu.ar/publicaciones/index.php/Contenciosa/article/view/11364/16592 https://bibliotecavirtual.unl.edu.ar/publicaciones/index.php/Contenciosa/article/view/11364/16594 Derechos de autor 2022 Contenciosa
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topic Dictadura
Chile
Justificación
Historiografía
Gonzalo Vial
Dictaduras
Chile
Contrarrevolución
Anticomunismo
Propaganda
Historiografía
Dictatorship
Chile
Justification
Historiography
Gonzalo Vial
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Chile
Justificación
Historiografía
Gonzalo Vial
Dictaduras
Chile
Contrarrevolución
Anticomunismo
Propaganda
Historiografía
Dictatorship
Chile
Justification
Historiography
Gonzalo Vial
Casals, Marcelo
Villar, Gorka
Justifying the Chilean Coup. The Operations of the Past in the Gonzalo Vial’s Political and Historiographical Writing
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Chile
Justificación
Historiografía
Gonzalo Vial
Dictaduras
Chile
Contrarrevolución
Anticomunismo
Propaganda
Historiografía
Dictatorship
Chile
Justification
Historiography
Gonzalo Vial
author Casals, Marcelo
Villar, Gorka
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Villar, Gorka
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title Justifying the Chilean Coup. The Operations of the Past in the Gonzalo Vial’s Political and Historiographical Writing
title_short Justifying the Chilean Coup. The Operations of the Past in the Gonzalo Vial’s Political and Historiographical Writing
title_full Justifying the Chilean Coup. The Operations of the Past in the Gonzalo Vial’s Political and Historiographical Writing
title_fullStr Justifying the Chilean Coup. The Operations of the Past in the Gonzalo Vial’s Political and Historiographical Writing
title_full_unstemmed Justifying the Chilean Coup. The Operations of the Past in the Gonzalo Vial’s Political and Historiographical Writing
title_sort justifying the chilean coup. the operations of the past in the gonzalo vial’s political and historiographical writing
description This article analyzes the political-historiographical evolution that the conservative historian Gonzalo Vial went through to justify the 1973 coup in Chile. The main milestone in this regard was his participation in the Libro Blanco del cambio de gobierno en Chile (White Book of the Change of Government in Chile), one of the most outstanding operations of historical manipulation aimed to legitimize the military dictatorship. We argue that Vial used the same interpretive matrix to justify the coup d'état and the subsequent repression both in his political interventions and in his historiographical production before and after 1973. This interpretation was based on certain constant principles throughout this entire period: the thesis of the sustained decline of the nation, the breakdown of consensus and the imminence of a civil war. This type of legitimizing discourses of the coup achieved public projection not only through his journalistic and historiographical work, but also in particularly sensitive state initiatives such as the so-called Comisión Rettig (Rettig Commission). In this way, the initial manipulation was followed by an intellectual rationalization that did not renounce to the objective of historically justifying the existence of the military dictatorship.
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