Melissa Humana-Paredes is aware her parents' relationships with Chile are a mixture of love and trauma.
The Toronto beach volleyball player could have skipped the Pan American Games in Santiago coming at the end of a long season and after the world championship.
"Our September 11th is different than the September 11th we're used to hearing about in North America," Humana-Paredes said. Humana's parents and siblings fled to Canada in 1975. Humana didn't see his family again until emigrating to Toronto in 1980. He wrote about his years under Pinochet in his book"Playing Under the Gun: An Athlete's Tale of Survival in 1970s Chile".
When the democratic election of 1990 signaled the end of the dictatorship, Paredes-Blaise danced at a celebration held at Santiago's Estadio National, which was the site of detainment, torture and killings after the coup. The stadium is also the venue for the Pan Am opening and closing ceremonies. Paredes-Blaise followed him to Toronto where Melissa and brother Felipe were born before the couple separated.
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