Pinochet Part 3: Searching for the Disappeared

Real Dictators

NOISER

History, Fiction, Drama

4.8 • 8.2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2024

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Pinochet consolidates control, creating a terrifying new secret police force. The dictator’s war on communism extends abroad, as Chile joins Operation Condor. But how long can Pinochet’s global allies allow him to go unchecked? And will the families of the murdered and the disappeared ever find justice? A Noiser production, written by Sean Coleman. Many thanks to John Bartlett, Mark Ensalaco, Peter Kornbluh. This is Part 3 of 3. Get every episode of Real Dictators a week early with Noiser+. You’ll also get ad-free listening, bonus material and early access to shows across the Noiser network. Click the Noiser+ banner to get started. Or, if you’re on Spotify or Android, go to noiser.com/subscriptions To get an exclusive NordVPN deal, head to https://nordvpn.com/realdictators to get an extra 4 months on the 2-year plan. There’s no risk with Nord’s 30-day money-back guarantee. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:37.0	It's September 2023 in Santiago Chile. We're on Serochena, a hill overlooking the city.
0:45.0	This was once the site of Via Grimaldi, one of the Chilean armies most notorious interrogation and torture centers.
0:54.0	Now it's a place of remembrance.
0:58.0	Guitar strings pluck out the melody of Chile's national dance,
1:02.0	La Quaker.
1:04.0	An old woman dressed in black walk slowly across the baked earth
1:07.8	on top of the hill.
1:10.2	She holds a playing white men's shirt in her hands.
1:14.7	On the ground by her feet are hundreds of black and white photographs, some nearly 50 years old.
1:28.4	They show the faces of husbands, fathers, sons, men and boys who were taken from their homes and never seen again. As the song begins, the woman raises the white shirt in front of her,
1:37.1	holding it by the cuff and shoulder, the limp, lifeless ghost of a dance partner.
1:44.4	She begins to move. The air billows through the loose fabric, filling out its contours,
1:51.0	as though it still clings to the back of the young man who once wore it. Lacueka, traditionally performed by couples on Chile's Independence Day, has become
2:07.1	La Quueka Sola, and it has been danced alone by this woman and hundreds like her since the early days of Pinushe's dictatorship.
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