Venda Sexy
| Venda Sexy | |
|---|---|
| Prison camp used during the Military dictatorship of Chile | |
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View of the former Venda Sexy | |
  Location of Venda Sexy in contemporary Chile | |
| Coordinates | 33°26′56″S 70°40′9″W / 33.44889°S 70.66917°WCoordinates: 33°26′56″S 70°40′9″W / 33.44889°S 70.66917°W |
| Known for | Interment of Pinochet's dissidents during his military dictatorship |
| Location | Santiago |
| Operated by | DINA (when the estate acted as a prison) |
| Operational | 1973-1975 |
| Inmates | Pinochet's dissidents |
| Killed | almost 18 people |
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The Venda Sexy is an estate near Santiago, Chile that was used as a torture center by the DINA secret police during the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet.
Description of the estate
The house was divide in three floors an it was surrounded by a garden. The estate acted as a prison between September 1973 and November 1975.
It was called Venda Sexy for the sexual abuse that the inmates suffered during the detention. Another name that was given to the estate was La Discothéque for the music that was played when the inmates were tortured.
The concentration camp was used for a different purpose from that of Villa Grimaldi.
In 1974 numerous members of the leftist guerrilla group MIR were interned in the camp.
People in the camp
Some of the people who were imprisoned in the camp where:
- Ida Vera Almarza
- Isidro Pizarro Meniconi
- Luis Mahuida Esquivel
- Antonio Soto Cerna
- Luis Gonzáles Mella
- Felix De la Jara Goyeneche
- Marta Neira Muñoz
- César Negrete Peña
- Mario Peña Solari
- Nilda Peña Solari
- Gerardo Silva Saldivar
- Renato Sepúlveda Gajardo
- María Joui Petersen
- Francisco Rozas Contador
- Jorge Eduardo Ortiz Moraga
- Jorge Herrera Cofré
- Ramón Labrador Urrutia
- Luis San Martín Vergara
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