A group of deputies from the , founded by the far-right Johannes Kaiser, has presented a draft resolution in Congress to ask President José Antonio Kast to create a Museum of Truth that would expose, they maintain, “the abuse, hunger and humiliation that the Popular Unity Government meant for the people of Chile,” headed by Salvador Allende from 1970 until his overthrow on September 11, 1973.
The proposal, submitted to the Chamber of Deputies on Monday, the same day that Kast spoke before the Legislature, asks the Executive to instruct the Ministries of Culture and Public Works, in addition to the Council of National Monuments, to install the site and collect testimonies, historical documents and other information from the Allende era. The text indicates that the intention is “to preserve the complete and true historical memory of the victims of shortages, political violence, the ‘quiet’ of the rule of law and the economic chaos that characterized said period, and to educate new generations of Chileans about the entirety of their recent history.”
The document adds that its initiative “is based on the unavoidable duty of the State of Chile to preserve the complete and true historical memory of its people, without ideological biases, without convenient omissions and without the monopoly of a single narrative about the recent past” and argues that for decades, “the official memory of the period 1970-1973 has been constructed almost exclusively from the perspective of those who supported the Popular Unity Government, systematically ignoring the testimony, suffering and truth of the millions of Chileans who suffered first-hand hunger, shortages, political violence, and destruction.”
The creation of the venue seeks to reduce the weight of the Museum of Memory and Human Rights (MMDH), which for 16 years has recounted the 1973 coup d’état and the dictatorship through the experience of the victims, and whose work was recognized at the beginning of May with .
In Chile, 1,168 memory sites are preserved. In the case of the work of the MMDH, the right has shown objections since the announcement of its creation during the first government of the socialist Michelle Bachelet (2006-2010). Seven years ago, even the historian was Minister of Culture of the second government of Sebastián Piñera, less than four days after taking office, after a comment he had made in the book came to light. Convert Dialoguesin 2015. “More than a museum (…) it is a montage whose purpose, which it undoubtedly achieves, is to shock the viewer, leave him astonished, prevent him from reasoning (…) It is a shameless and lying use of a national tragedy that touched so many of us so hard and directly.” His opinions caused a stir and the Piñera Administration distanced itself from this position.
Seven of the eight PNL deputies in Congress have signed the request for the creation of the Museum of Truth. The libertarians, who are located in the most extreme wing of the Chilean right, supported the candidacy of Kast, founder of the Republican Party, when he faced the communist Jeannette Jara, representative of the left, in the second round of elections on December 14, 2025. The support arose after , a far-right and admirer of Javier Milei, did not pass the November 16 elections in the country, having only obtained 13.9% of the votes. votes, finishing in fourth place. Kaiser went beyond Kast himself and defended it directly.
