Document Viva Chile Mierda

Viva Chile Mierda
Dir. Adrian Goycoolea, USA 2013, 89m, Scottish Premiere

Chile, 1974. Under the cloak of darkness, Pinochet’s military intelligence service raid the home of the filmmaker’s Aunt Gaby. She, together with her husband and brother, are blindfolded and taken to a secret military prison to be interrogated. For three weeks they are tortured and terrorized. No one knows where they are. Their children are kept under armed guard. Were it not for the help given to them by one young prison guard, they would not have coped.

That guard was Andres ‘Papudo’ Valenzuela - who several years later would be the first military intelligence officer to admit to the crimes committed by the dictatorship.