(7 Jul 2025)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Santiago, Chile – 7 July 2025
1. Chilean Secretary of National Goods Francisco Figueroa Cerda (left), Secretary of Justice and Human Rights Jaime Gajardo Falcón (centre) and Secretary of Housing Carlos Montes Cisternas (right)
2. Gajardo Falcón signing expropriation decree
3. Figueroa Cerda and Montes Cisternas signing expropriation decree
4. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Jaime Gajardo Falcón, Chilean Secretary of Justice:
"We are signing the documents that give way to a historic milestone that has to do with the programming of the expropriation of the former Colonia Dignidad. There are 117 hectares that are going to be expropriated to be transformed into a site of memory, a site for reflection, a site that will allow all Chilean men and women to enter freely to learn about what happened in that place, the atrocious crimes that were committed."
5. Secretaries showing decree
6. Map showing future expropriated areas
7. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Francisco Figueroa Cerda, Chilean Secretary of National Goods:
"The next government will not be able to disengage from the Colonia Dignidad because it will become public property, it will be administered by the State through national assets. But also, morally, it will not be able to disengage for the reasons that the minister said, it will truly leave Colonia Dignidad as a national monument. Many of these polygons are recognized by the State itself as national monuments."
8. Various of secretaries of state
9. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Carlos Montes Cisternas, Chilean Secretary of Housing:
"What is this being done for? Is this a vendetta with the colony? No, this has a much deeper meaning, it has a sense of memory, it has a sense of collective memory. Whoever has been in the different concentration camps in different countries where they existed knows the implication and the learning that one has just from being there and that it is about the schools being there, that the history is explained, the real and concrete history of the people and what they suffered and what they were there for. And that it is understood that these are facts of profound inhumanity."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Parral, Chile – 7 September 2024
10. Room which stored potatoes and where detainees were tortured
11. Woman placing flower over picture of disappeared
12. Stone with the new name for Colonia Dignidad – “Villa Baviera”
STORYLINE:
Government ministers in Chile signed an expropriation decree on Monday for the site of ‘Colonia Dignidad’, a clandestine detention centre for the country’s military dictatorship which lasted from September 11, 1973, to March 11, 1990.
The singing of the decree will turn the 117-hectare area into a public memorial site.
The government aims to complete the process before President Gabriel Boric leaves office.
Authorities emphasized the importance of preserving the site as a place for reflection on the crimes committed there during the dictatorship.
"Whoever has been in the different concentration camps in different countries where they existed knows the implication and the learning that one has just from being there and that it is about the schools being there, that the history is explained, the real and concrete history of the people and what they suffered and what they were there for," said Chilean Secretary of Housing Carlos Montes Cisternas.
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