Venda Sexy and ex Fasacal factory: denied memory territories

Abstract

After the last military dictatorships that occurred in Chile (1973-1990) and Argentina (1976-1983), we find social processes that mobilize meanings about the political violence of the recent past and promote memory policies carried out by the State and by the civil society. In this sense, this work is a first approximation of analysis of the cases of the Venda Sexy and the former Fasacal factory, territories that evoke denied memories in terms of business complicity and sexual political violence, they do not have an active agency. by the State, are in turn claimed by actors and social groups that play a leading role in the formation of memory endeavors. It is observed that the social demand for institutional recognition of these spaces as sites of memory continues to be central to the political agenda; however, their institutionalization does not guarantee constant promotion and protection by the Chilean and Argentine State. So it is through the agency of civil society that the dynamics are activated in the present due to the meanings around human rights and judicial reparations from these territories of memory.