>> carina: yeah. at the beginning i think they really thought they could change the system. >> anthony: with covert and overt support by our country, a ate of emergency was declared and a right-wing dictatorship grabbed hold of the instruments of power, launching a period of repression that lasted from 1973 until 1985. supported and often guided by cia officers, trained in what we call these days "enhanced interrogation methods," some of the most brutal bastards in the ugliest military juntas on earth crushed minds and bodies in cells across latin america. >> anthony: what kind of people were finding themselves swept up? >> carina: teachers. professors from university. >> anthony: troublesome intellectuals. >> carina: sometimes lawyers, or -- >> anthony: something like something like 3% to 5% of the population had gone through the prison system. i mean, we're not talking about incarceration, we're talking about they were tortured and then kept inside a prison system that was specifically designed to pretty much destroy them.