The true story of 'The Prison of the Andes', the luxury prison for human rights violators during the Pinochet dictatorship

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40 years after the coup d'etat of Augusto Pinochet (1973-1990), the men responsible for crimes against humanity in the Chilean dictatorship are serving their sentences of centuries in prison at the foot of the Andes mountain range. This is the Cordillera Penitentiary Compliance Center, better known as the Cordillera Penal, the title of the film by director and playwright Felipe Carmona (in Spain, available on Filmin under the title The Prison of…