The Endless Absence

From August 2026

Medical, psychological, and political investigation of enforced disappearances.

"The book The Endless Absence is an exemplary ethical testimony of a generous and courageous human experience in the astute confrontation with evil in its worst manifestations.

Furthermore, it is a detailed study of the psychological, moral, spiritual, and often physical injuries caused to people by the disappearance of close family members.

The disappearance of people, which affected and continues to affect thousands in Chile, has not only lasting but also permanent effects. It is a psychological trauma without end, inconsolable and endless, as the title aptly describes. It is an extraordinary book that, through a variety of eyewitness accounts and the texts from three in-depth interviews with a mother, a daughter, and a sister of disappeared persons, raises fundamental questions for understanding the recent past and for the future of living together as a nation.

"A true culmination of the generous and impressive professional, human, social, and political work in defense of human rights that Dr. Paz Rojas Baeza has been doing for more than 30 years."

– José Miguel Varas