▲ The presentation was at the Academic Center for the Memory of Our America.Photo Sre
Blanche Petrich
La Jornada newspaper
Monday, September 15, 2025, p. 18
From the articles contained in the book 50 years after the coup in Chile: the vision of Gregorio Selser, The modus operandi Of the forces that operated the fall of the Government of the Popular Unity, the murder of Salvador Allende and the establishment of the Pinochet dictatorship in that country of the southern cone last century, explained the director for Latin America of the Foreign Ministry, Pablo Monroy Conesa, during the presentation of that work of the late Argentine journalist.
Gregorio Selser, who was described by Beatriz Torres, director of the Academic Center for the Memory of Our America (Camena) of the Autonomous University of Mexico City (UACM), as “the most Chilean of Argentines”, occupied a large part of his efforts as a journalist and historian to follow up on the allendist process, from his gestation, during the conspiracy for his overthrime, already the overthrow for his overthrow.
“And it is so precise in its analysis of that modus operandi which was executed in 1973, which is still useful to detect signals of similar processes that occur today. With more sophisticated ways but that point to the same thing: destroy the projects of the peoples that seek to provide their own models to live better and not only through a privileged system. ”
On September 11 there were two parallel presentations of this book that contains 60 background articles, written and published between 1968 and 1985, in an extensive deployment of more than 700 pages.
The Mexican ambassador to Chile, Laura Moreno, said that the objective of this work, in which she contributed centrally when she was the director of the historical heritage of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, it is not only The years of the Government of Popular Unity.
The Undersecretary of Higher Secondary Education and at another time governing of the UACM, Tania Rodríguez Mora, said that a work like this, which led to its compilers a three -year work in which the collection of the SRE, the Ministry of Public Education and the UACM, “is not only an act of nostalgia, but an exercise of active consciousness that allows, half a century of distance, to understand the meaning of the meaning of the democratic socialist revolution collaborated. President Allende and reflect on the relevant of his axes in the history of our day. ”
