My ex husband was Chilean, an exile in France from the Pinochet regime. I personally knew many people who had been tortured by the DINA - the Chilean equivalent of the Nazi SS.   My ex's brother was one of the thousands who "disappeared" and it wasn't until twenty five years later that the family learned for sure what they had suspected, he was tortured to death and dumped in to a mass grave. He was 20 years old and left behind a wife and a one year old son. Just last month I learned something that made me physically sick about what had been done to another family member in those days after the coup - an infant who was tortured with electric shocks until the father broke down and gave up some information. It did no good - the baby died under the torture and the father has lived with this all these years, plus the fact that he broke down and gave information that lead to someone's death.

I'm glad Pinochet is gone, but I'm just sorry he went peacefully.