New Book Documents the Legacy of Enforced Disappearance in Chile

• Maxine Lowy’s book, Cuando se nos olvidó olvidar, recovers the stories of those forcibly disappeared during Chile’s military dictatorship.
• The work highlights a three-generation family effort to seek truth, justice, and memory regarding the 1973 coup d’état and its aftermath.

The Andrónicos Antequera Case

• The narrative centers on the disappearance of brothers Juan Carlos and Jorge Elías Andrónicos Antequera, originally from the coastal city of Tocopilla.
• The book demonstrates how state repression extended far beyond Santiago, impacting families throughout the country.
• Lowy uses the camanchaca (northern coastal fog) as a metaphor for the long-obscured memory of these state-sponsored atrocities.

Documentation and Active Remembrance

• Presented on October 3, 2026, at the Museum of Memory and Human Rights, the book compiles photographs, personal letters, legal documents, and testimonies.
• It serves as a tool for restorative justice, ensuring that the disappeared are not erased from the national consciousness by time or systemic silence.
• The project frames the restoration of names and faces to the victims as the highest dignity of journalism, challenging the power structures that sought to reduce them to mere absences.