Archivos de la represión en Chile: entre el acceso y la desclasificación

This article talks about the archivist’s problem in the Chilean context, specially regarding to the process of the repressive archives, it means, every documentation produced in the repressive period, public or private, such as repressive organisms and the organizations victim of Human Rights abuse. The lack of legal awareness related to the preservation of the documentary heritage, has as consequence something titled as Archive Fever. This concept was adopted by the French philosopher Jacques Derrida, the concept is associated with the loss of history and memory, due to the unconscious thoughts or decisions of not protecting the documentary heritage. Specially those archives which have that value and special importance, such as the repressive archives