The Museum and Site of Memory was the country’s main clandestine center of detention, torture and extermination center during the military dictatorship
Human rights
The raid follows a two-year investigation into a shop that sold swastikas, iron crosses, and other hateful paraphernalia
The Rage Against the Machine guitarist met President Gabriel Boric and played songs by disappeared artist Victor Jara at the National Stadium in Santiago
The Pinochet dictatorship disappeared and murdered over 3,000 people, tortured up to 40,000, and installed a constitutional and economic order with a lasting influence on Chilean society
‘Dirty Wars’: a video game where you can fight in the Chilean resistance
Sociologist Jorge Olivares has turned the stories his parents told him about Pinochet’s regime into a transgressive work of art
The announcement comes five days before the 50th anniversary of the violent coup that overthrew Salvador Allende’s government in Chile
The son of disappeared activist Cristina Navajas and Julio Santucho recovered his identity in July after being sought by his family for 47 years.
New testimony upends the officials’ narrative that they were involved in a shootout with members of the Mapuche community
The decision paves the way for federal access to the procedure