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“It Is a Good Sign that the Country Recovers From some Wounds”: the Citizen Gaze After the Return of Baquedano
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Every person who leaves the Baquedano Metro and crosses Providencia with Avenida Vicuña Mackenna stops to look at it. It is that after almost exactly five years of having been removed from Plaza Italia -12 March 2021-, the statue of General Manuel Baquedano returned to his place of origin.The monument installed in September 1928 had to be removed after suffering severe damage in the framework of the social explosion from October 2019. From there…
General Baquedano obtained decisive victories in the battles of Tacna, Arica, Chorrillos and Miraflores, in the conflict that confronted Chile with Peru and Bolvia.The statue was moved in the early hours of the morning from the Historical and Military Museum of Chile, where it was located since August 2022 after its restoration, waiting for the determination of its future, by the authorities, with the support of the Chilean Army, Carabineros of …
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