Art Against DictatorshipArt can be a powerful avenue of resistance to oppressive governments. During the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet in Chile, some of the countrys least powerful citizensimpoverished women living in Santiagos shantytownsspotlighted the governments failings and use of violence by creating and selling arpilleras, appliqud pictures in cloth that portrayed the unemployment, poverty, and repression that they endured, their work to make ends meet, and their