Serie N° 99: Archivos de la represión en Chile: entre el acceso y la desclasificación.

Abstract

This article talks about the archivist’s problem in the Chilean context, specially regarding to the process of the repressive archives, it means, every documentation produced in the repressive period, public or private, such as repressive organisms and the organizations victim of Human Rights abuse. The lack of legal awareness related to the preservation of the documentary heritage, has as consequence something titled as Archive Fever. This concept was adopted by the French philosopher Jacques Derrida, the concept is associated with the loss of history and memory, due to the unconscious thoughts or decisions of not protecting the documentary heritage. Specially those archives which have that value and special importance, such as the repressive archives. It will be exposed the process given to repressive archives in Chile and other countries in the south, as well as the secrecy problem and the total no access to archives. Another issue which will be exposed is the legislation concerning to the activism of the organization of human rights, its tireless struggle for recovering the archives which can clarify the truth and searching for justice.