Monday 17 June 2013

Chile: From detention centre to homeless shelter

What a positive use of a place loaded with traumatic memory: the Chilean stadium where Victor Jara and other detainees were held during the Pinochet dictatorship is now a winter homeless shelter.

Around 500 people find shelter there each night, and according to AP, the number of homeless people who died on the street because of the cold fell from 150 in 2010 to 28 last year.

Check out the photo show in the Miami Herald for more:

AP PHOTOS: Chilean torture center becomes shelter (Miami Herald)

Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/06/17/3455637/ap-photos-chilean-torture-center.html#storylink=cpy


Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/06/17/3455637/ap-photos-chilean-torture-center.html#storylink=cpy

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