Memoria, adversidades y conflictos en el acontecer de la asimetría y el rezago en Tocopilla (CHILE, 1915-2013)

This article, through various primary and secondary sources, characterizes the socioeconomic history of Tocopilla since the industrialization of copper and saltpeter mining, emphasizing macro-processes and their derivations in society, both economic, political and health, analyzing in a last stage, community actions that, in the framework of a series of protests, sought to make visible and reverse the dense evolution of asymmetry, economic inequality and precariousness in health care, especially with the social outbreak-or popular rebellion-of Tocopilla in 2013. In that direction, this work raises two hypotheses, the first referring to the fact that the processes of mining capitalism historically demonstrate the irremediable disarticulation with the environment and the need for a community subsidiarity, in the sense that someone has to contribute with the costs and help with a diversity of dispositions to an alien activity. As a second approach, we propose that the community processes that led to the riots in 2013, in which the accumulation of memories of asymmetries and lag was expressed and made visible, only resulted in the manifestation of a localist story, which is It was based on a performativity, as a result of contentious representations, which did not alter the structures of the economic and health system at the regional level, which deepened the lag. In this way, the version of the hegemonic narrative of politics and the local and regional analysis of said phenomenon is contravened.