ABSTRACT
In October 2010, flanked by state forensics officials and their lawyers, Paine, Chile family members confirmed the remains of nine of their loved ones. In the midst of planning for the funerals and burials, a delegation of family members met with Chilean bishop Juan Ignacio González to negotiate the purchase of a mausoleum in the Paine Cemetery. Bishop González, an Opus Dei priest and staunch supporter of the former dictatorship, objected to the families’ request. González did not want one mausoleum representing the entire collective of Paine’s dead and disappeared. 1 González said that he understood they had suffered, but that the families “on the other side” had also suffered. 2 After more than a month of lobbying the priest, including bringing in high-level government officials to force a change in his decision, bishop González relented.
