Plebiscito en Chile, 1988

The book compries more than sixty photographs by noted photographer Álvaro Hoppe Guiñez taken between 1983 and 1990. The publication addresses the plebiscite made in 1988, which ended with the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet in Chile. The story is built in a sequence of three historical times. The first chapter, Manifestations for Democracy, shows images of the highest and most symbolic moments of resistance to dictatorship. The second, Plebiscite Campaign, we can see snapshots of the Yes and No protesters, political agglomerations and captures of the strip on television. The final chapter, on 5 October 1988, shows the voting process, the tense expectation of the results, the statements of the Command of the No and the Ministry of the Interior to end the celebration and the uncertainty about the history that we already know how it continued. The book features texts by writer Pablo Azocar, researcher Angels Donoso, former fine arts museum director Roberto Farriol and book editor Alexis Díaz Belmar.