Militancy Then and Now: A Conversation with Carmen Castillo

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Carmen Castillo (1945-), the partner of Miguel Enríquez, one of the legendary founders of Chile's MIR (Movimiento de Izquierda Revolucionaria [Revolutionary Left Movement]), was with Enríquez in the house on Santa Fe Street, in Santiago, Chile, when Pinochet's secret police attacked and killed the iconic revolutionary on October 5, 1974.Castillo, then pregnant, was injured, but escaped to Paris. She later gave birth in exile, although she lost the child. Castillo was a major public figure of the Chilean resistance movement abroad during the Pinochet years, and in more recent decades has emerged as a prominent writer and filmmaker whose work deals largely with Miguel, the history and legacy of the MIR, and the personal and collective traumas of the revolutionary '60s generation. She now splits her time between Paris and Santiago. Her main works include the books Un día de octubre en Santiago (1980) and Santiago/París: el vuelo de la memoria (2000), written in collaboration with her mother, the noted writer Mónica Echeverría Yáñez, and the films La Flaca Alejandra: vidas y muertes de una mujer chilena (1994) and Calle Santa Fe (2007). This conversation, largely centred on Castillo's vision of the MIR and its legacy as well as on her films La Flaca Alejandra and Calle Santa Fe, took place in August 2010 in Santiago, Chile, prior to the emergence of the massive 2011 student protests.View full textDownload full textRelated var addthis_config = { ui_cobrand: "Taylor & Francis Online", services_compact: "citeulike,netvibes,twitter,technorati,delicious,linkedin,facebook,stumbleupon,digg,google,more", pubid: "ra-4dff56cd6bb1830b" }; Add to shortlist Link Permalink http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13569325.2012.663350