Art History Image Library Photo Number / CLRMSTG00428
Modern Sculpture in Latin America
Memorial at Villa Grimaldi Peace Park, Santiago. Villa Grimaldi was a complex of buildings used for the interrogation and torture of political prisoners by DINA, the Chilean secret police, during the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet. The complex was in use from mid-1974 to mid-1978 and about 4,500 detainees were brought here during this time, at least 226 of whom were "disappeared" or murdered by DINA. Now it is memorial park.
