Valparaíso Cultural Park, Chile

Three days before the change of command, on Tuesday, March 8, the government of Sebastián Piñera issued a resolution taking away the concession of the former public prison from the Valparaíso Cultural Park, a space in which they have carried out their activities as a cultural center since 2011.

Given the importance of the work carried out by this center, the Latin American Council of Social Sciences signed a collaboration agreement in 2021 formalizing a series of joint academic activities. These activities are part of the commitment and work undertaken by both institutions to preserve collective memory and defend human rights.

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The revocation of the concession seriously threatens the continued existence of the center, which is Valparaíso's main memorial site, cultural center, and public space, and whose work has a Latin American reach. In this way, it constitutes an attack on the collective memory of our Latin American region and on the active defense of human rights.

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