The US-backed Chilean dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet established over 1,200 detention, torture, and extermination centers across the country. Three of these centers were navy ships docked in the port of Valparaiso: the Lebu, the Maipo, and the Esmeralda. According to records, the dictatorship detained some 5,500 political opponents on these vessels — 500 of them aboard the Esmeralda.
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