Social relations and forced displacement in the Puñir-Releco farm. From paternalistic practices to neoliberal imposition. Valdivian mountain range, 1947-1994

Abstract

The Puñir-Releco farm expanded the forest-type industrialization process in the Province of Valdivia. Our objective is to understand the process of occupation of the farm from its installation with paternalistic practices, through workers' control of the activity and until its dissolution as a result of the neoliberal installation. Through documentation located in ARNAD, ODEPLAN and testimonies of former inhabitants of the farm, we conclude that social relations were formed in a regime of paternalistic practices that became a working-class community that joined the socialist project, with the dictatorship and neoliberalism did not revert to the old regime, a new type of social relations was founded.