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.

The house stands at 3037 Irán Street, at the corner with Los Plátanos in Macul, a two-story brick building with a basement and garden behind a wall with a black metal door. It is a national historic monument, not part of a residential complex. Visits depend on the survivors' association that has held the administration concession since September 2025, so confirm opening before travelling.

The name Venda Sexy came from the blindfolds detainees wore throughout captivity, not from the music. La Discoteca, the site's other nickname, referred to the loud music played continuously to mask interrogation sounds. The house at 3037 Irán Street was built in 1952 as a two-story brick residence with a basement and garden.