ABSTRACT
In order to explore the diversity of the subaltern in a synchronic historiography of a period of torture in Latin America, this chapter explores the writings and life of two very unlikely companions but two Latin Americans. The two Latin Americans are: Luz Arce, a former comrade and Jorge Mario Bergoglio, an Argentinean who became a priest. The chapter explains Gayatri Spivak's subaltern experiences and the diversity of the periphery in a particular period of history of Latin America in the last part of the 20th century. The torture of Latin American subaltern group by the military and the Direccion de Inteligencia Nacional (DINA) was perceived in an original stage by legal commissions as part of a mechanical routine in which all prisoners had to pass through certain routines. Torture and the inscription of torture as a text to be revisited becomes an issue to be thought about more widely by using some of Spivak's thoughts.
