Qualla: Cuartel Simón Bolívar https://qualla.com/cuartel-simon-bolivar en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:39:57 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Cuartel Simón Bolívar https://qualla.com/cuartel-simon-bolivar Cuartel Simón Bolívar: Introduction https://qualla.com/cuartel-simon-bolivar/ There is a residential complex today at 8800 Simon Bolivar Street, in the eastern Santiago commune of La Reina. Nothing about it announces what came before. For decades, that was precisely the point. The house that once stood here was among the most closely guarded secrets of Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship - a clandestine site run by the secret police where roughly eighty people were brought to be killed, and from which almost none returned. It does not appear in the first great accountings of the dictatorship's crimes, because at the time those reports were written, no one outside the killers knew it existed.

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/6/j/c/cuartel-simon-bolivar-wp/66jc-cuartel-sim-n-bol-var-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Cuartel Simón Bolívar: A Unit Built for Secrecy https://qualla.com/cuartel-simon-bolivar/ The secret police of the Pinochet regime was the Direccion de Inteligencia Nacional, or DINA. Within it, a sub-unit formed in April 1974 called the Lautaro Brigade carried out operations directly for the agency's leadership. Early in 1975, this brigade - then about twenty agents,...

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/6/j/c/cuartel-simon-bolivar-wp/66jc-cuartel-sim-n-bol-var-the-people-who-disappeared-here.mp3 0:06 3 full Cuartel Simón Bolívar: The Witness Who Broke the Silence https://qualla.com/cuartel-simon-bolivar/ For more than thirty years the site stayed hidden. It was missing from Chile's two landmark truth commissions, the Rettig and Valech reports, because none of the perpetrators talked and none of the victims survived to describe it. The wall finally cracked in 2007. A man named Jor...

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