APSI

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| category = News magazine

| editor = Arturo Navarro (1976–1978)

| editor_title = Director

| frequency = Weekly

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| firstdate = June 1976

| lastdate = 1995

| country = Chile

| based = Santiago

| language = Spanish

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| issn = 0716-1212 }}

APSI (an abbreviation of "Agencia Publicitaria de Servicios Informativos") was a Chilean magazine aimed as means of political opposition to the Pinochet dictatorship. It was headquartered in Santiago.{{cite web|url=https://search.library.wisc.edu/catalog/999608034802121|title=APSI : actualidad nacional e internacional|work=University of Madison Wisconsin Library|accessdate=15 November 2016}}{{failed verification|date=September 2018}}

History

One of the tactics of the dictatorship was to isolate the public from international news and outside influences in order to maintain its stranglehold on information. Following the 1975 shutdown of the human rights organization {{Interlanguage link|Comité Pro Paz|es}} in response to a political offensive by the Pinochet regime, Precht, then Vicar, allowed the ex-employees to issue grant requests to European commissions. One of the European applications was a project to create a news agency about international news. This request by Arturo Navarro, an ex-Comité employee, resulted in a grant of seven thousand dollars, and APSI was born.{{cite book |author=Francisca Araya Jofré |title=Historia de la revista Apsi: el que se ríe se va al cuartel (pico para Pinochet) |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IrRHQBZ31ysC&pg=PA20 |series=Nuevo Periodismo |year=2007|publisher=Lom Ediciones |location=Santiago|isbn=978-956-282-944-1 |oclc=1026152018|page=20|accessdate=19 September 2018}}

APSI was published on a weekly basis.{{cite news|author=David Remnick|title=To die in Chile|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/magazine/1986/11/23/to-die-in-chile/7b87938b-0ecf-4410-bbca-050e2f77c33a/|accessdate=15 November 2016|work=The Washington Post|date=23 November 1986}} Due to the climate of censorship in Chile the magazine focused initially on international news. APSI was published with support of the Popular Unitary Action Movement until late 1978. In 1979 the magazine began reporting on local issues including the numerous human rights violations of the dictatorship.{{Cite web|url=http://www.memoriachilena.cl/602/w3-article-96757.html|title=APSI|website=Memoria Chilena|publisher=Biblioteca Nacional de Chile|language=es|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131231053749/http://www.memoriachilena.cl/602/w3-article-727.html|archivedate=31 December 2013|url-status = live}}