Santiago Sergio Grez-Toso Collection

Period 1977-1987
Total size   0.18 m.
Consultation Not restricted

History

Various groups of Chilean refugees, of whom many in Paris, tried to mobilize public opinion against the repression in their homeland during the regime of general Augusto U. Pinochet; their activities included the publishing of information bulletins and reports on the situation in Chile; they had also contacts with the illegal student movement in Chile.

Content

Collection of Santiago S. Grez-Toso consisting of bulletins and stencilled reports issued by the Centre d'études politiques sur le Chili, the Comité international contre la répression au Chili, the Organización de Resistencia Comunista y la Renovación, Movimiento de Acción Popular Unitaria, Grupos de Base por la Renovación and other Chilean organizations in exile, mainly in Paris and Venezuela; illegal bulletins of the student movement in Chile, including Liberación!, El Pasquin and Kritica; reports issued by the Comité International 'Justice pour Massimo Carlotto' concerning the trial against Massimo Carlotto, member of the Italian group La Lotta Continua and accused of murder 1979-1987.

Processing information

List made by Henk Hondius