AP PHOTOS: Chilean torture center becomes shelter
AP PHOTOS: Chilean torture center becomes shelter
Updated 12:58 am, Monday, June 17, 2013
SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Just days after Chile's bloody 1973 military coup, popular songwriter and theater director Victor Jara was dragged down to the basement of an indoor stadium that had been converted into a detention and torture center.
The new government considered Jara, a member of the Communist Party, an enemy. Many people believe he could have served as a powerful voice against the dictatorship of Gen. Augusto Pinochet.
But Jara's life was cut short inside the scraped concrete walls of a locker room now guarded behind a heavy red door. Pinochet's agents beat his head and shot his body with 44 bullets.
Four decades later, eight former army officers have been charged with Jara's murder. And the infamous Chile Stadium, now renamed Victor Jara Stadium, has become Chile's largest homeless shelter, housing about 500 people a night during the biting Chilean winter.
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All U.S. Americans should be aware that former Pres. Richard M. Nixon assisted bloody dictator Augusto Pinochet in overthrowing the elected leftist President Salvador Allende, after an intense effort to misrepresent Allende through the Chilean media, pouring millions of US taxdollars into anti-Allende bogus "news" and planted opinion articles, via publisher Eduardo Edwards "El Mercurio," and his other publications and radio and tv stations, (which still remain active in Chile) and through staffing them with CIA people, then through infiltration and manipulation of the Chilean military, and then the economic system, after Nixon instructed CIA head Richard Helms to "make the economy scream" in order to create desperation and panic among the citizens, after catastrophes like planned and managed truckers' strikes, and longshoremen's strikes which kept food from reaching grocery stores, even non food but heavily used products like cigarettes and booze, just for fun. Truckers walked away from their trucks, leaving them in the roads, and ships were stacked up extending well out into the ocean, waiting to be unloaded.
That was decades ago. It would stand to reason they are probably much better at it now.
