Abstract

The dictatorships in Chile and Spain left in both countries an imprint of far-reaching political and social repercussions.In both countries a number of key events took place in 2012 that also had a major impact on national and internationalwere also the subject of great repercussions in national and international public opinion. These events reactivated public attention to the memory of the past.One of them, in Spain, consisted in the prosecution of Judge Baltasar Garzón, accused of acts of prevarication in the midst of the investigation he was leading to convict some of the crimes perpetrated during the civil war and Franco's dictatorship. In Chile, the event with the most public repercussions was theinstitutional act of homage to the dictator Pinochet organized by the Corporación 11 de Septiembre. This article reviews this type of events in order to propose a model for analyzing the routes of post-transitional and post-dictatorial processes in each country. Thus, we will try to the positions and the changes of location within them that characterize the spokespersons who articulate the current "memory battles".