"This is where they tortured people," she told me. In the 1970s, the space was divided into cubicles in which leftist guerrillas and their sympathizers were shocked and waterboarded to force them to reveal the whereabouts of fugitive comrades. The members of the military "task force" who administered the torture lived right upstairs, on two floors of dormitory rooms."
"It was psychological torture," she said. Ducking her head beneath a truss supporting the roof. "Its main purpose was to dehumanize them."
The detainees spent the rest of their time on the third floor of the building, chained and blindfolded in a kennel-like hold called the capucha, Spanish for "hood." Here, they lay side by side in grave-like compartments for weeks."
Every Wednesday, naval officers would single out about a dozen detainees and announce that they would be transferred to a detention center on a ranch in Patagonia, in the country's south."
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