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3. Chilean territory as space of memory.
Historically, the topography of specific sites, functioning as leaky granaries of recorded time, has traces and signs to preserve and decipher . Estadio Nacional De Chile was built between 1937 and 1938 . The inspiration, for the team of Chilean architects that formed it, was the Olympic Stadium in Berlin. The ceremonial opening of the building took place on December 3, 1938. . This event was accompanied by a football match between Chilean Colo Colo and the Brazilian team Sao Christovao, won by the Chilean 6-2 . Over the course of time, a dozen or so global sporting events took place at the stadium, including the 1953 World Women's Volleyball World Championship, the Men's Volleyball World …show more content…

The firing of the palace, mentioned day, began at 8:30 in the morning, preceded by a conversation between the chief of staff of the junta, Admiral Carvajal, and President Allende on the resignation of the head of state as a price for protection. Allende objected to this proposal and Gen. Pinochet's soldiers began attacking the palace, defended by the supporters of the president . At 11: 00 Allende, by radio station, gave the nation his last message, that he will not leave the palace and will defend Chile until the end . Around 12: 00, the bombing of the palace began, combined with the storming of the army, culminating in the capture of the palace by the uniformed and suicide of Allende around 14:00 . Since 1981 (after a seven-year reconstruction of the building) until 1988, the executive authorities of the military junta were in the palace . After taking over by Patricio Aylwin in 1989, the palace was rebuilt, from the destruction of the military rule and its reopening took place on September 30, 2003 . Villa Grimaldi is also important in the field of symbols and memory. After September 11, 1973, it has forcibly changed its destiny from a residential home to a torture center where 4,500 people were detained and 229 of them disappeared . When the junta ended, the area of Villa Grimaldi was razed to ground by gen. Pinochet’s soldiers, to hide the evidence of human rights abuses that were committed there . The survivors and families

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