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Still twenty years after its fall, the Berlin Wall —Roberto Ampuero points out in this article— continues to divide our national history and outlook like some ominous ghost. According to the author, there will be no reunion of the country, no justice, forgiveness, more tolerance, better democracy if the Chilean left, which did not publicly criticize the Wall (like it does not, today, publicly criticize the 50 years of Castroism), continues to be silent and evasive. Focusing exclusively on the victims of "our" dictatorship, that left continues to evade debate on the dictatorships of the "Allied parties" and their victimes as well as their responsibility for nurturing the breakdown of Chilean democracy.
There is a shortage — says Ampuero— of round tables, books of essays or novels that address this issue from an ample perspective that aims at building new platforms of national agreement which would allow us to write a coherent and all-inclusive history of our recent political past. We must fight the tendency to see just what we want to see since there is no justice absent truth.
Ampuero warns that opposite this omission of the Chilean left, there is, certainly, a correlative center and right that also should take a critical look at the support given to a regime that violated human rights.