Fifty years ago, Augusto Pinochet staged a violent coup in Chile. Evandro Teixeira went to the capital and captured startling images of soldiers, protesters, and the funeral procession of Pablo Neruda. See more:
staged a violent coup in Santiago, the photographer Evandro Teixeira, who had spent the previous decade covering the military regime in Brazil, was sent to Chile. “Of course, the hook was that bastard Pinochet, but otherwise we had to wing it, find our own way,” Teixeira, who’s now eighty-seven, told me recently. Teixeira, accompanied by a colleague from one of Brazil’s major daily papers at the time, the, stayed at the old Hotel Carrera, right by the bombed Presidential palace, La Moneda.
Political prisoners incarcerated underground at the Estadio Nacional. This photo was published in the Jornal do Brasil, in 1973.Teixeira’s photos in Chile are the main subject of aat the Instituto Moreira Salles, in São Paulo, from March to July. They provide haunting depictions of the aftermath of a military coup, when quotidian life is assaulted by a new regime that has claimed for itself a right to extrajudicial violence.
The hunt for the student during Bloody Friday , a protest against the Brazilian dictatorship which was heavily repressed by the regime, Rio de Janeiro, June 21, 1968., Teixeira had to nurture his craft while remaining careful not to alarm government officials to the point that they prevented him from returning the following week to take pictures again.
Inside the building, he found Matilde Urrutia, Neruda’s widow, by her husband’s corpse. While speaking with her, Teixeira dropped the name of the Brazilian novelist Jorge Amado, a friend of the couple who had been a Communist militant. Urrutia allowed Teixeira to stay and accompany her, first during the wake at La Chascona, the poet’s house in Santiago, and then throughout the funeral procession toward the city’s main cemetery.
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