Una historia necesaria

After the arrest and disappearance of Alfredo García, Silvia Vera did not cease her tireless search. In the midst of this harsh reality and with a family to support, Pepe Carrasco,...

Antonio Llidó was one of six priests opposed to Augusto Pinochet's regime who were arrested, and the only one who remains missing. Antonio was arrested by the DINA in 1974 and subj...

Julio Vega, a union leader, had already experienced repression in the 1950s and didn't want his family to go through the same thing. His daughter Martita already suspected that the...

Rodolfo González Pérez, a conscript in the Chilean Air Force, is promoted to join Augusto Pinochet's secret police. Little by little, Rodolfo begins to succumb emotionally and soci...

Many Chileans were persecuted and disappeared throughout the country following the 1973 coup d'état. The D'Apollonio family was part of a wave of repression against peasants and wo...

Following the arrest of Alfonso Chanfreau, the DINA detained his partner, Erika Hennings, in an attempt to break him and extract information from him. But their commitment and mutu...

Germán Grunert recounts the last moments he spent with his stepbrother Álvaro Barrios. Álvaro was a member of the MIR and was persecuted, detained, and disappeared as a result. Thi...

"My friend Max Santelices officially died on February 18, 2007. But he had already died long before that. He died the day his beloved wife Reinalda del Carmen disappeared while pre...

During the dictatorship, there were many anonymous heroes who risked their lives to fight against Augusto Pinochet's regime. Alan Bruce was one of them. Despite the fact that his c...

One of the practices most commonly used by the DINA in the early years of the Chilean civil-military dictatorship was the sadistic and sustained intimidation of the relatives of de...