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Somehow, Cleveland has survived, with her gray banner unfurled -- the banner of Archangelsk and Detroit, of Kharkov and Liverpool -- the banner of men and women who would settle the most ignominious parts of the earth, and there, with the hubris born neither of faith nor ideology but biology and longing, bring into the world their whimpering replacements.

— Gary Shteyngart


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Our Lady of the Dark Flowers by Hernán Rivera Letelier

A historical fiction set in the Chilean pampa, during the strike leading up to the massacre at Escuela Santa María de Iquique.

Santa María de las flores negras is available as a pdf file from abpnoticias.com.

Sergio Infante's paper Santa María de Iquique, historia y novela is available at archivochile.com.

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🦋 Massacre at Santa María de Iquique

Saramago writes today about the 1907 strike and massacre in Iquique, Chile, in which the Chilean army (under pressure from the government and from foreign mine-owners) murdered more than three thousand people, striking saltpetre miners and their families who had congregated at the school of Santa María to demand an 18¢ per day wage paid in currency rather than scrip. The event was memorialized in the 1970's when Luis Advis wrote his "Cantata de Santa María de Iquique" -- here it is performed by Quilapayun.

Lyrics are transcribed here.

(a year and a half later) This massacre is quite an important reference point in Hernán Rivera Letelier's work.

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