Slowly, sensually she moved her hands across her stomach, then upwards to cup her breasts as she rocked, bouncing one after the other, alternating them to the beat of the song. You have to believe me!”
The cover story was easy to remember, she had used it several times before. The club stood halfway up a narrow road on a hill leading away from the Mapocho river, it looked smart from the outside, and was double-fronted in one of the three-storey buildings that lined the street. Sexual torture was used as a mechanism of terror, in which “male torturers threatened women prisoners with rape and humiliated them on the basis of their bodily functions”. Valdez circled her and and she turned to watch him anxiously. A German Shepherd dog called Volodia was trained to rape inmates, and female and male prisoners were subjected to beatings, hangings, electric shocks, Russian roulette, asphyxia and deprivation of sleep, among many other torture methods.
