Prólogo - Patricia Verdugo
 
The record that you have now in your hands is a historical document of great importance and, for that reason, must be knowed for every citizen concerned about the matters in his fatherland.
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The official history is made over the base that the victorius wish bequeath to the posterity. But that purpose is relativized by the efforts of others that narrate the history of the victims and the episodies that the murderers wish to hide. In this effort participate historians, journalists, artists, editors and many other people sensitized by some historical fact.
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In this case, a citizen could interfere and record, understanding the importance of that interference, the communication among the high chiefs of the Armies on the tuesday 11th of september of 1973, day of the militar coup that ends the government of the President Salvador Allende.
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Nos you have this record in your hands. Hearing it will allow you obtain your own conclusions. The contents of the phrases, the tone of the voices, the language that ones and others uses revealed their personalities, fears and angers, their states of mind.
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The transcript record you will found it since the fourth chapter, so you will can follow it word by word. Previous to the transcription, I include a narration in relation to the gestation of the militar coup, and the things happenned in the scenaries where the President Salvador Allende moves in their latest hours with life.
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When we achieve a quart of century since these matters that gave a violent overturn to the history of Chile, trying to reflexionate around these facts is a civical duty. Its necesary talk about it with the sons and grandsons. Open the mind and the heart to reach the bottom of the facts, understanding the own feelings and trying to understand what the others felt. So we will can, as nation, recognize the odiosities that remains ambushed ans try a honest tour for the forgiveness path, with the compromise of no repite a tragedy that cost so many lives and pain.
 
 
Patricia Verdugo - Santiago of Chile, 1998
 
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