Elba Vergara
"Four men came in, bearing a cot with a sheet-covered figure."Sit down,"one ordered."You're going to see a performance by a bad actor, an actor who has forgotten his part. Help him remember it."They uncovered a body entirely purple, missing a foot."Come closer,"another ordered."Look at him. You'll know him."And she did. It was 27-year-old "El Gordo"Toledo, with whom she had been 20 days before. He could hardly speak, or scream, any more. When Elba maintained that she did not know him, they said, "Let's see" - they pulled out his nails, cut off his remaining ear, cut out his tongue, gouged out his eyes, and killed him slowly as she watched, thinking, "He could be my son." Then they brought another "actor, "26-year-old Eduard Munoz. It took them five hours to kill him, under her eyes. It was worse than any pain they could have inflicted on her, she said. Later she was forced to watch while her cellmates-aged 16, 17, and 40, nude and drugged, were directed to perform an erotic dance before they were raped. Another girl, back from a dreaded torture center, and pregnant, was so crazy that each time she awoke she screamed that her only desire was for her child to be born so she could kill it." -- Elba Vergara, secretary to President Allende (himself murdered by the Chilean generals),