The so-called “Honecker case” is an episode little studied in the internationalist historiography of Chile. It opened a complex diplomatic scenario between Chile, Germany and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), later Russia. The problem involved three countries in an unprecedented situation of International Law, and provoked a long legal and diplomatic negotiation, not free from tensions, within an international system in transformation. The article addresses the tensions that arose in the first phase of this problem, using unpublished chilean diplomatic sources, Patricio Aylwin presidential archive, parliamentary sessions, interviews, and the Chilean and German press of the period.
Keywords:
Chile, Alemania, Erich Honecker, Patricio Aylwin, relaciones internacionales
Author Biographies
Cristián Medina Valverde, Universidad San Sebastián
Doctor en Historia, Universidad Complutense de Madrid (España). Profesor Investigador, Instituto de Historia, Facultad de Derecho y Gobierno, Universidad San Sebastián (Chile)
Gustavo Gajardo Pavéz, Universidad Católica de la Ssma. Concepción
Licenciado en Historia, Profesor de Historia, Geografía y Ciencias Sociales, Universidad Católica de la Ssma. Concepción. Doctor (c) en Historia, Universidad San Sebastián (Chile)
Medina Valverde, C., & Gajardo Pavéz, G. (2019). CHILE AND THE GERMAN FRIEND. THE “HONECKER AFFAIR”. 1991-1994: INTENATIONAL TENSION IN THE EARLY PAST COLD WAR. Cuadernos De Historia, (50), pp. 135–168. Retrieved from https://cuadernosdehistoria.uchile.cl/index.php/CDH/article/view/53667
