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"There are two countries now, and one is subterranean."
(Concentration camp survivor Hernan Valdes, 1974)
Immediately after the military coup of September 11, 1973, concentration camps were set up throughout Chile to hold the thousands of political prisoners arrested during the state of siege.
"At the end of November 1976, the men and women concentration camp prisoners were transferred to the Tres Alamos camp in Santiago. Then the iron gates opened and they were free to go. Nobody ever provided any explanation as to why they had spent one, two or three years of their lives behind those wire fences."
(Analysis #289, 1989)
Click to learn more about the following concentration camps:
Pisagua,
Chacabuco,
Melinka (Puchuncaví),
Ritoque,
the prison ships of Valparaíso,
Tejas Verdes,
Colonia Dignidad,
Quiriquina Island, and
Dawson Island.
Click on Santiago to read about detention centers in the capital city.
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