Forty years after the coup headed by Gen. Augusto Pinochet, Chile remains a wounded, divided nation where the past lives in the present.
The nation’s enduring rifts are visible in the glaring contrast between the country’s elite, who enriched themselves during the dictatorship, and the entrenched poverty in Santiago’s shantytowns—a gap that has grown in recent years.
History is alive in the homes of people like Ana Gonzalez, a woman whose husband, two sons and daughter-in-law were "disappeared" during the dictatorship.
Chile 40 Years After The Pinochet Coup | Pulitzer Center