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He Municipality of Maipú modified in 2018 the Memorial of Political Detainees, Disappeared and Executed, inaugurated in 2012 in the commune square, alteration that the author of the work brought to justice and that today agreed with the plaintiff.
The Nineteenth Civil Court of Santiago accepted the demand presented by the architect Ruben Peralta Larraguibel against the municipality led by Mayor Cathy Barriga for infringement of the Intellectual Property Law by altering the monument.
In sentencing, Judge Jacqueline Benquis Monares ordered the mayor’s office to pay the plaintiff 10 million pesos for non-pecuniary damage and to erase his name from the sculpture.
According to the ruling, the contract signed between the parties in 2012 was breached, stating that the municipality “made substantial alterations to the original project and that alter this characteristic of an artistic work, without justification or explanation“.
A brochure from the Municipality of Maipú shows the original work from 2012 (above) and the monument after the alterations (below).
The document gives an account of the changes made to the monument, based on testimonies: The copper color was changed to a bright red, the number of plaques was increased and Figures “allusive to human beings that were not part of the initial work” were incorporated.
Also, “the names of the disappeared political executed are erased, with which we make them disappear for the second time in history “, and the spaces to sit were eliminated.
“They transform it one hundred percent, It is not the same work, they mutilate it“says one of the testimonies included in the ruling.
