Week 2 EOC: Pinochet

While Pinochet was in charge he created a camp that was strictly made to torture civilians. From the article I read on http://www.santiagotimes.cl/chile/human-rights-a-law/26423-chiles-villa-grimaldi-remembers-horror-of-pinochet-years Pinochet targeted women mostly as said in the article, ““The women were punished for being women. Sexual abuse, in some cases rape, and the language they used,” Pérez said. She added that some women, like herself, lost a child during their time in captivity.” Pinochet was from a military background and served from 1973-1990 with a military based dictatorship. Some of the torture tactics that Pinochet used were inhumane. “Pérez told The Santiago Times. “Another technique was called ‘los submarinos.’ They held your head in a tank of water, but with excrement and urine. They also had dry ‘submarinos,’ where they held a plastic bag around your neck to suffocate you.”” So after Pinochet did all this, wouldn’t you be scared of him, be scared to turn your back on him, well the citizens of chili when asked if they would reelect Pinochet, majority of them voted no, after this Pinochet stepped down after a good chunk of the population Voted no to reelect him. The way that the people did that was by making a campaign dedicated to showing the people how great and happy there life will be once they decide to vote. By voting they are being a part of something that could possibly change the way the country is. Rene wanted to show fellow citizens that happiness is coming. He wanted people to believe that people can change the way the country is ran and managed. By winning this campaign he was able to pull Pinochet out of office and was able to in store faith back in the minds and souls of the fellow chili citizens. They were unbelievably in shock when the votes came in. It was outstanding that they were able to take down the chili government. Something that is now famous in history.