Tag: Villa Grimaldi

• Thursday, November 5th 2015 - 08:00 UTC

  Chilean judge sentences 64 former Pinochet secret police officers to jail time

  

  Chilean judge Hernán Crisosto sentenced 64 former secret police officers (DINA) to jail time for the detention and disappearance of Washington Cid Urrutia in 1974 during the country’s military dictatorship led by Augusto Pinochet (1973-1990).

• Thursday, September 12th 2013 - 01:02 UTC

  Chilean presidential front-runner heads ceremony at former Pinochet detention centre

  

  Former Chilean president and current front-runner in the November election Michelle Bachelet headed a ceremony at former detention centre Villa Grimaldi as part of the country’s commemoration of the coup led by General Augusto Pinochet against Socialist president Salvador Allende on 11 September 40 years ago.