Chile Will Expropriate Land From a Former Torture Center to Transform It Into a Memorial Site.
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As a concrete milestone to materialize the expropriation of the lands of the former Colonia Dignidad, the ceremony held this Monday in the offices of the Ministry of Justice was described. It is that the holders of Justice, Housing and National Property stamp their signatures in the decree of expropriation that serves as an initial step for the series of procedures that are required for those lands to pass into the hands of the State. “We are si…


SANTIAGO (AP) — The Chilean government signed a decree Monday formalizing the expropriation of more than 100 hectares of land belonging to the former Colonia Dignidad, a German enclave founded by former Nazi corporal Paulo Schaefer and later…
Santiago. On Monday, the Chilean government decreed the expropriation of 117 hectares of the old Colonia Dignidad to build a memorial site in that German enclave that was a center of repression during the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet (1973-1990).The leftist president Gabriel Boric had ordered in 2024 the confiscation of part of that property of 4,800 hectares in the south of Chile, which today is known as Villa Baviera."Today we are formally…
In Colonia Dignita, about 250 residents were subjected to similar conditions to slavery for decades, since 1961, by his left-wing leader, Paul Schäfer, who died in prison in 2010 The Chilean government declared this afternoon the disapprovation of 117 hectares of old Colonia Dignita to build a monument in the German prison, which was a detention centre during the Augusto Pinochet dictatorship (1973-1990). In 2024, left-wing President Gabriel Bor…
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