More than 40 years after the first Chilean exiles arrived in Mexico, the Mexican Agency for International Development Cooperation (AMEXCID) and Chile's International Development Cooperation Agency (AGCID) have agreed to finance the return of archives on the Chilean diaspora in Mexico to Chile.
The Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM)-Xochimilco campus; the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM); and two Chilean residents in Mexico, Fernando Shultz and Sonia Daza, will donate documents, audio files and their personal collections under a loan for use (commodatum) agreement to the Museum of Memory and Human Rights in Chile.
The museum will create a special collection within its documentation center dedicated to Mexico, which welcomed hundreds of Chilean refugees during the regime of Augusto Pinochet, including the family of then President Salvador Allende, Mrs. Hortensia Bussi de Allende and their daughters.
a ceremony held in the Foreign Ministry, Chile thanked Mexico for the donation from the Casa de Chile to the Museum of Memory and Human Rights in Santiago. Speakers at the event included AMEXCID Executive Director Agustín García-Lopez Loaeza; AGCID Executive Director Juan Pablo Lira; Chile's ambassador in Mexico, Ricardo Nuñez; Sonia Daza, Chilean citizen and last head of the Casa de Chile in Mexico; and Fernando Shultz, a Chilean professor and researcher at UAM Azcapotzalco.
The Casa de Chile opened its doors in September 1974 and operated until 1993, welcoming hundreds of Latin American exiles in Mexico City.
