A country’s memory is understood as the elaboration that a group or society develops about its past, in terms of its tradition, its historical memory, or its foundational landmarks, all of which are linked to a national project. This article considers as foundational landmarks of the last the thirty years the crisis of
the Popular Unity’s national-popular project; the military coup and the dictatorship; and the Plebiscite and the political redemocratization. September 11th and October 5th are symbolic dates for the latter two foundational landmarks. In Chile, national memory is still fragmented: it is either divided or antagonistic,
partial, or segmented. A national project cannot exist in the absence of a collective memory that transcends these current divisions and fragmentations in the ethical (truth and justice in human rights), the socioeconomic (equalities), and the political realms (a consensual constitutional order).