Chile: Boric inaugurates Walk of Remembrance at National Stadium

(ANSA) – SANTIAGO DE CHILE, 10 SEPTEMBER – A winding pedestrian path, marked by a black line with steel engravings to represent the scar in Chile’s memory caused by the dictatorship after the military coup of September 11, 1973: this is the project, which this morning President Gabriel Boric accompanied by five ministers of his government and a delegation of undersecretaries of public administrators inaugurated with a ceremony inside the National Stadium Park. The path, intended for reflection and meditation, retraces the route along which the prisoners, locked inside the dressing rooms of the sports Colosseum, were transferred to the torture sector, known as “Caracolas”. The event is part of the commemorative events of the 51st anniversary of the coup, which was followed by 17 years of a totalitarian regime that left 40 thousand dead. “This space invites us to remember the horrors that were experienced here by thousands of people – the Chilean president recalled – It is important that all the joy and daily life (of the Stadium, which still hosts sporting events, ed.) mixes with memory and everyone understands what happened here. History and memory need support to be told and transmitted”. The educational purpose of the project that bears the signature of the sculptor Norma Ramirez, translates into a “Path”. (ANSA).