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Families
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One of the hardest things for the women of Chile to bear was their loneliness when their husbands, fathers, sons, brothers disappeared. Not only did these women have to suddenly become breadwinners, they also faced living the rest of their lives without their loved ones. Their daily lives are filled with memories of their missing loved ones.
This arpillera was made by Enilda Rojas, one of the oldest members of the Association of the Detained and Disappeared. Her son’s bone was found in 1995 in an unmarked grave. In her arpillera she shows a chair at the family table that will always be empty.
Doris Lorca is the mother of Isidro Miguel Pizarro who disappeared in November 1974. He had postponed his university studies to become a political advocate for peasant farmers. The owners of large plantations whose land had been returned to farmers persecuted him. Just after his twenty-second birthday he was arrested, savagely treated, and then disappeared. Doris remembers her son in the poems she writes for him.
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