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Photographic Exhibition During The Chilean Military Dictatorship

Osorno, Chile. 10 September 2019. Rodolfo Balbontin former member of the Mir and political prisoners during the Chilean military dictatorship. Two former members of the MIR (revolutionary left movement) prepare a photographic exhibition on the Melinka, Puchuncavi political prison camp where they were imprisoned for two years.After the coup d'etat of September 11, 1973, some popular spas were enabled as political prison camps and / or detention centers including Puchuncavi in charge of the Chilean army.One of the important milestones in the history of this site occurred in June 1974, when within the framework of Operation Condor, the civic-military dictatorship developed Operation Colombo in a failed attempt to present to the public opinion that 119 militants of the Movement of the Revolutionary Left had been executed by their own party partners in Argentina. In response, the prisoners of the camp organized a hunger strike that had international repercussions, to show that many were prisoners with some of the 119 executed, in some clandestine place of detention and torture of the dictatorship in Osorno, Chile. (Photo by Fernando Lavoz/NurPhoto)

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