THU, SEP 12 / 9 pm
Directed by Subversive Action Films
2010, Chile, 95 min
This underground documentary takes its name from a group of Chilean economists who studied at the University of Chicago and other institutions and became followers of neoliberal economist Milton Friedman. These economists returned to Chile to assist Pinochet’s military regime, privatizing nearly every aspect of Chile.
THE CHICAGO CONSPIRACY does not focus on the story of the Allende government, but instead begins on March 29, 1985, when two young brothers and members of a left wing revolutionary organization, Rafael and Eduardo Vergara, were gunned down by police as they walked through the politically active community of Villa Francia.
This documentary recounts the story of the Vergara brothers alongside that of the poor neighbourhoods lining the outskirts of Santiago that originally cropped up as land occupations, as well as telling the story of recent Mapuche First Nation resistence – focusing on the legacy of dictatorship within the new Chilean democracy.
