Fifty years after a 1973 coup in Chile that ushered in 17 years of brutal military rule and saw some 40,000 people imprisoned, disappeared, tortured or killed, Reuters went with five former political prisoners to the sites of their confinement.
Carlos Gonzalez was arrested and tortured by Pinochet's secret police in 1976 at the age of 28.
For months he was held in detention centers, including the Tres Alamos and Cuatro Alamos political prison camps in Santiago.
They beat you before asking you anything, you couldn't breathe," he told Reuters at another former detention center, the Clinica Santa Lucia.
Chile returned to democracy in 1990, though Pinochet himself was never convicted of a crime and died in 2006.
Persons:
Ivan Alvarado, Natalia A, Ramos Miranda SANTIAGO, Viola, Carlos, Alejandra, General Augusto Pinochet, Carlos Gonzalez, Gonzalez, Salvador Allende, Pinochet, Alejandra Holzapfel, Ingrid Olderock, Holzapfel, Viola Todorovic, Ivan Alvaredo, Natalia Ramos, Adam Jourdan, Rosalba O'Brien
Organizations:
Reuters, Tres, Cuatro, Valech, MIR, Londres
Locations:
Chile, Tres Alamos, Cuatro Alamos, Santiago ., Santa Lucia, Santiago