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Disappeared people in art at Parque por la Paz at Villa Grimaldi in Santiago de Chile. Villa Grimaldi, located in Santiago, was DINA's most important torture center, which began operating in 1974. Prisoners endured long periods of interrogation. As more people were incarcerated on a massive scale, new places were reconditioned to hold them.
People from other latitudes who have migrated to Chile recently have also been victims of racism and discrimination. Such is the case for mixed-race indigenous people from distinct parts of Latin America, [21] [22] in particular Afro-Colombians in northern cities like Antofagasta, [23] black people, [24] Palestinians, and Muslims. [25]
The term roto was first applied to Spanish conquerors in Chile, who were badly dressed and preferred military strength over intellect. [8] In modern usage, roto is an offensive term used to disparage the ill-mannered mentally-broken people or those whom the speaker wishes to associate with the ill-mannered. [9]
He sang about Chile’s poor and indigenous people and wrote lyrical ballads against social inequality, war, and imperialism. “Already in his time he was a tremendously popular and influential ...
On 11 September 1973 a military junta toppled President Salvador Allende in a coup d'état and installed General Augusto Pinochet as head of the new regime. [4] [5] This was a dictatorial, authoritarian regime which trampled on human rights with the use of torture, disappearances, illegal and secret arrest, and extrajudicial killings.
Chile's police on Friday arrested at least 55 people in a fiscal fraud case that could be one of the biggest in the country's history, amounting to about $275 million and implicating small and mid ...
On 25 October 2019, over 1.2 million people took to the streets of Santiago to protest against social inequality in what was called "the biggest march of Chile." [32] [33] As of 28 December 2019, 29 people had died, [34] nearly 2,500 had been injured, and 2,840 had been arrested.
Volunteers in central Chile tried to remove charred metal, broken glass and other debris Monday from neighborhoods devastated by wildfires over the past several days, as officials raised the death ...