Women survivors of sexual torture under Augusto Pinochet's 17-year dictatorship in Chile never felt that the horrors suffered during that time have ever been adequately confronted, allowing his legacy to remain intact. Then his relative was appointed to a political role protecting women's rights.
for her resignation, claiming not only that she lacked experience but also that her appointment erased the memory of the atrocities that took place during the dictatorship.of torture during Pinochet’s regime, particularly utilized to humiliate and abuse female political prisoners. Torture included being beaten, raped, and burned by cigarettes, and having electric shocks administered to the breasts and vagina while prisoners’ hands and feet were tied.
Rudolphy explains that, unlike today, political women were considered immoral by the state for not fulfilling the conventional domestic expectations of women, receiving what she called a “double punishment.”Cristina Navarrete was studying medicine in Santiago when she was arrested in 1974.
She said the gendered violence was a clear expression of “the patriarchal male chauvinistic society.” “It’s a very difficult relationship that I have with my own country,” said Navarrete, who has lived in England since 1976. “They ask for people like me to forget and move on, and then they bring somebody who is the great-niece of Pinochet, and who made that comment. How can you move on?”
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