Reconocer, negar, callar: posición ideológica y reconocimiento de las víctimas seis años después del estallido social chileno
Year: 2026
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: In October 2019, Chile experienced the most intense social uprising in its recent history, with thousands of injuries and hundreds of eye-trauma cases attributed to police and military action. Six years later, the recognition of its victims remains contested. The objective is to examine how ideological position is associated with the attribution of violence, the recognition of human rights violations and of victim status, and item nonresponse. It is a quantitative, cross-sectional, analytical study based on a self-administered online survey of 5,000 residents aged 18 to 65 of the 52 municipalities of Santiago’s Metropolitan Region, fielded between October 2025 and January 2026. Contingency tables, nested logistic regressions, and a multinomial model were used. Among those identifying with the left, 55.7 % attribute the violence to Carabineros and the Armed Forces, compared to 8.6 % of the right; the inverse occurs with organized groups (68.0 % and 21.0 %). Adding ideological position increases the fit of the recognition model sixfold, and the recognition of victim status reverses its sign depending on the vignette presented: protesters with eye trauma or injured police officers. The group with no ideological identification (36.2 %) concentrates nonresponse (27.4 %), which is also associated with lower socioeconomic strata. These patterns are interpreted, in an exploratory manner, as polarized memory and epistemic inequality. The cross-sectional design and the non-probability sample limit generalization.
Source: Universitas
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W7204530488