Julio Martínez Prádanos National Stadium
Multi-purpose stadium that became a mass detention site after Chile's nineteen seventy-three coup.
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This guide to Julio Martinez Pradanos National Stadium in Santiago opens on November 21, 1973, two months after Pinochet's coup, as Chile's national team prepared to play a World Cup playoff match here against the Soviet Union. It traces how the stadium, one of South America's largest, had become a detention site holding thousands of Pinochet's opponents, and how a Red Cross count and a FIFA inspection collided with a match nobody expected to happen. It follows Jorge Montealegre's account of being held beneath the stands. Stop at Escotilla number eight, the fenced-off wooden bleachers left untouched since 2011.
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