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After forty days and forty nights on the ship, crammed among a large family and animals of all species, the waters began to recede, and Noah saw an

Two commissions created to study the dictatorship concluded that at least 38,254 people were tortured under the Pinochet regime, which lasted until 1990.

Viola remembers the terror of being naked in front of her captors, the blows to her body and the pain. Carlos recounts being barely able to breathe amid beatings that left his ribs broken. For... -Today at 03:04 am- MarketScreener

In the basement of the presidential palace in Chile's capital, Patricia Herrera was detained and tortured for months before being sent into exile.Herrera was taken, blindfolded, to the basement of La Moneda, as the presidential palace is called.

Former political prisoners of the Chilean dictatorship gathered on Saturday 12 August to carry out conservation work on a mural in what was once a detention camp. A sign reading the name and date of the detention of Amelia Bruhn Fernandez, a woman disappeared during the period, features on the site. Chileans are preparing activities in the weeks ahead of the 50th anniversary of Augusto Pinochet’s military coup against Salvador Allende’s constitutional government. The Cuatro Alamos clandestine detention centre was run by Chile’s feared secret police during Pinochet’s dictatorship that r...