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Dancing in Chile to protest dictatorship disappearances
Sep 10, 5:58 PM EDT
By EVA VERGARA
Associated Press
SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) -- Violeta Zuniga gets around with a cane because of her knee problems, but nothing can keep the 83-year-old from performing Chile's national dance to protest her partner's disappearance during the country's military dictatorship.
The cueca dance is performed by couples during Chile's national holidays, a source of celebration and pride for many in the South American country. But Zuniga has danced alone for nearly 40 years to mourn and protest the forced disappearance of her partner, Pedro Silva Bustos, during Gen. Augusto Pinochet's 1973-1990 rule.
Zuniga is among the women British pop singer Sting told of in his 1987 protest song, "They Dance Alone."
"Why are there women here dancing on their own?" Sting asked in the song. "Why is there this sadness in their eyes?"
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Violeta Zuniga's loved one, Pedro Silva Bustos,
"disappeared" by US-supported Augusto Pinochet.
Violeta, on the right.[/center]
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(160,644 posts)and most US Americans have no idea how deeply it goes. It's a real shame.
Thank you.
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(160,644 posts)Dignity Colony, Site of Commemorations in Chile
Santiago de Chile, Sep 10 (Prensa Latina) Colony Dignity, site of torture and murders during the Augusto Pinochet dictatorship, was venue today of commemoration of the brutal coup d''état in Chile on September 11, 1973.
Family of disappeared inmates and political executions of the region of Maule (Talca, Linares, Parral) entered the interior of Colonia Dignidad (Colony Dignity) with the aim of reaching the graves discovered in 2005.
In the graves were found rests of illegal burials.
. . .
Colonia Dignidad was originally a settlement of Germans which became a place of horrendous crimes against children and opponents to Pinochet.
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