Ñuñoa Neighborhood of Santiago, Chile: A soccer stadium located in Santiago, Chile, the Estadio Nacional hosted international competitions, including the World Cup in the 1960s. Under the direction of military dictator Pinochet, the stadium was used as a jail and torture center for over 40,000 Chileans. Men and women were kept in different parts of the stadium and the locker rooms and inner hallways were refigured as jail cells, where thousands were tortured. The stadium, and the horrors that took place inside its walls, were the subject of a recent documentary film, and while most spectators come to see soccer matches, rather than to commemorate the lives of those murdered, the stadium has remained infamous.
