"«Todo hombre tiene derecho a ser persona». Un simposio internazionale sui diritti umani nel Cile di Pinochet"

The International Symposium on Human Rights La Iglesia y la dignidad del hombre, sus derechos y deberes en el mundo de hoy was held in Chile in November 1978, and it was the final event of the cycle of initiatives carried out in the so-called “year of human rights in Chile”. For the first time since the coup d’etat of 1973, which had paved the way for the ferocious dictatorship led by General Augusto Pinochet, the theme of human rights (and of their violation) was publicly put on the table. It was a victory for Archbishop Raúl Silva Henríquez and, above all, for the women and men of the Vicaría de la Solidaridad. An event that the military had found it impossible to prevent and that subsequently they would not have been able to submit to their control. These elements called into question the serious crisis that the civic-military regime was going through in that year, probably the deepest crisis that the dictatorship had ever faced since the coup.