When Augusto Pinochet installed himself as Chile's dictator in 1973, the age of majority was set at 21 years.
Eliana Rodríguez holds a photograph of herself with her daughter Yelena Monroy at home in La Serena, Chile, Friday, Sept. 1, 2023. The photograph was taken one year after they were released from a detention center where Rodriguez and her two young daughters were imprisoned for over a year during the dictatorship of Gen. Augusto Pinochet, who was brought to power in Chile after a military coup in September 1973.
Augusto Pinochet at “El Buen Pastor” or The Good Shepherd detention center, originally built to hold detained, female minors and run by Catholic nuns that was turned into a detention center for political prisoners during Gen. Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship, in La Serena, Chile, Friday, Sept. 1, 2023. Monroy was incarcerated here with her mother and younger sister for more than a year. The 1973 photo is from a visit by the International Red Cross to verify detainees’ condition.
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