While the Chilean state declines to punish the murderers and torturers of the Pinochet regime, runs the popular reasoning, then the people will have to do it. One form of punishment is the 'funa', a public denunciation of a former official of the regime who has so far remained unpunished. In the widest sense funa may represent a trend in the Western world towards civil governance, in which 'the people' act in the name of…
