Venda Sexy, former torture center in Santiago, Chile
Venda Sexy was a detention and torture center operated by the DINA, Chile's secret police, located in a two-story residential house in the Macul area of Santiago. The building contained underground rooms, marble stairways, and parquet flooring, and functioned as a place of imprisonment and brutal treatment from late 1974 through mid-1975.
The site operated as a detention facility for political prisoners, primarily members of the MIR movement, between 1974 and 1975. In 2016, the Chilean government declared the building a Historical Monument, and more recently the state expropriated the property to convert it into a public memorial site.
Access to the location is limited as it remains in transition following government expropriation and planning for conversion into a public memorial. Visitors should check current status and available commemorative programs or guided visits in advance before planning a trip.
The center derived its name from the constant loud music played to muffle screams and sounds from those being tortured, earning it the cynical internal nickname La Discoteca among secret police agents. This grim detail reveals how perpetrators deliberately masked their atrocities.
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