José Domingo Cañas Memorial House
Former secret-police torture site whose original garden pool survives beside a memorial to the disappeared.
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This guide to the José Domingo Cañas Memorial House in Santiago centers on a drained swimming pool, the one trace left of a family home that Chile's secret police, DINA, seized in 1974 and turned into a way station called Cuartel Ollagüe. It follows the prisoners held there for days or weeks before being moved on or disappearing, and the death of one detainee, Lumi Videla, whose body turned up at the Italian embassy and forced the center to close. A stone monolith by the pool carries the names of sixty-two people and a line the survivors chose themselves.
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