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Chile converts torture chamber to human rights academy
Online News Editor
May 18, 2023
Santiago, May 18 (EFE).- Jorge Silva Huerta won’t ever forget the day in March 1975 when henchmen of Gen. Augusto Pinochet’s regime took him to a seaside vacation camp-turned torture center south of the Chilean port city of San Antonio.
Only 22 on the occasion of his second arrest since the Sept. 11, 1973, coup that toppled socialist President Salvador Allende and ushered in 17 years of military rule, Silva was targeted for his membership in the Movement of the Revolutionary Left (MIR).
He was bundled into a Chevrolet C10 pick-up truck and taken to the Rocas de Santo Domingo site, one of 16 vacation spots built by the Allende government to serve the needs of working-class people.
Soon after seizing power, Pinochet put the workers’ resorts at the disposal of DINA, the secret police, and Rocas de Santo Domingo became a clandestine prison under the auspices of the army’s Tejas Verdes Regiment.
More:
https://www.laprensalatina.com/chile-converts-torture-chamber-to-human-rights-academy/
