EAN: 9783031189401

SALVADOR ALLENDE AND THE VILLA SAN LUIS - PATRI...

Through the history of this housing complex  this book illuminates Salvador Allende's
dedication to the imperative of the right to the city for Chile's marginalized people. Built in
affluent Las Condes in Santiago  on what is arguably the most expensive parcel of land in Chile
the Villa San Luis was one of Salvador Allende's most visible and dramatic social projects.
Allende's six-year term was ended in the middle by a military coup d'état on 11th September
1973. Yet  material culture from Villa San Luis remains to convey the legacy of his commitment
to providing disadvantaged families with dignified housing. It is a national lieu de mémoire
and an iconic space  a reminder of a truly remarkable innovation in social housing and of
Allende's personal and political commitment to making Santiago a just city. Postcoup  the
remains of the complex also relate the wider injustice of the Pinochet regime. Many of its
families were violently evicted during the dictatorship. Some were dispossessed  taken away
from Las Condes in garbage trucks  and dumped in poor communities around Santiago. The land was
usurped by Pinochet on behalf of the army and later sold to developers to construct high-rise
symbols of a new  neoliberal Chile. Over the decades  however  former residents fought back and
in 2020  they succeeded in making its one remaining structure  remnants of Block 14  a
memorialized place of justice and reconciliation. It now a national monument and museum.

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