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to surrender. Following that, a ruthless policy to eliminate Allende's
supporters and the opposition was implemented. The junta killed thousands of
people in its first year in power, and approximately 90,000 Chileans out of a
population of 9 million were arrested. The terrorizing of the population,
corpses piled up in morgues, or shot and thrown into the Mapocho River, the
detention of suspects in the Santiago Stadium, hostage-takings, frequent search
operations and lootings, were just a few of the crimes of the Pinochet regime.
Academic institutions were "cleansed," and history and geography courses in
universities were subjected to censorship by the fascist authorities.
Fascist dictatorships similar to that of Pinochet came to power in Latin
American countries such as Argentina, Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua,
Honduras and Paraguay, and also carried out appalling cruelties. Thousands
of opponents of the junta in Argentina "disappeared." According to the
evidence that emerged after the fact, more than 2,000 political detainees were
put onto planes and thrown out over the sea from thousands of feet in the air.
A former gendarme, Federico Talavera, who appeared on Argentine television
on April 27, 1995, admitted the tortures carried out during the time, saying
among other things that pregnant women were thrown into the sea and that
dogs were specially trained to bite peoples' sexual organs. According to his
confession, the dogs would take political detainees' sexual organs in their

On April 27, 1995, a former gendarme confessed to the torture carried out during the
junta regime. The people then poured onto the streets to protest against Pinochet.