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For many years, the memory of the Pinochet years and their political violence was banished from political and public life, held hostage to the political consensus that was negotiated between civilian society and the army. In 1998, the arrest of the former dictator in London and the ensuing mobilization of international opinion changed the score and opened the floodgates of debate around the “official truth” that had been proclaimed by way of reconciliation. From the early 2000s, Pinochet’s victims became audible, knocking on the doors of the law-courts, while Unidad Popular, which the regime had tried to banish from the collective memory, gradually returned to the forefront of the political and academic scene.