Abstract
Military regimes throughout Latin America used a variety of tactics to instill terror in the population. In the case of Chile, the military dictatorship used torture, assassination, disappearance, exile and relegacion, or internal exile, in its quest to weaken social movements and control social and economic processes. This article will discuss the effects of relegacion on the families and communities that the relegados left behind, drawing on human rights literature and interviews of persons in the Santiago shantytown of La Pincoya.
Resume
Les regimes militaires partout en Amerique latine ont employe toute une variete de tactiques pour semer la terreur ...