Known as the Chilean coup d'état, a military general named Augusto Pinochet overthrew the Government of Salvador Allende, dethroning Chile's status as a peaceful democratic nation in South America.

Santiago 2023 executive director Harold Mayne-Nicholls took part in a tour of various facilities at the National Stadium, in collaboration with Estadio Nacional Memoria Nacional Corporation.

"This route, like so many others, is part of our history, which is painful, but it is our history after all, Mayne-Nicholls said."

"I believe that we have a duty to know and analyze (sic) it internally so that these atrocities never happen again.

"We have the duty to make this known, more than as a Corporation (sic), as Chileans."

Mariela Fuentes, coordinator of management of the National Stadium memorial sites, said that the Pan American and Para Pan American Games will help showcase to the world what happened in Chile 50 years ago.

"This is an unbeatable opportunity for us to make a match between sport and memory, which inextricably go hand in hand in a sports center like this one that was used as a concentration camp," Fuentes said.

"That the Santiago 2023 team has made these visits seems fundamental to us so that they understand the importance of working in these places of memory."

The women's dressing room No. 1, the hatch No. 8 of the Coliseum, as well as the north stands of the National Stadium where among the spots visited as part of the tour.