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Where are they? Chile launches search for the ‘disappeared’ during Pinochet dictatorship

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Chile’s government has launched a national search plan to unearth new leads in the victims of forced disappearance.
Thousands of victims in Chile, Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay have yet to be found.
On 11 September, Chile will mark half a century since the 1973 coup against then president Salvador Allende.

Luz Encina, 94, sets out from San Antonio in Chile in a small, rented boat clutching a fistful of red flowers to cast into the Pacific Ocean, which she believes to be the final resting place of her son.

Mauricio Jorquera was only 19 when he became one of at least under the…

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