Three decades after being imprisoned and tortured during the military dictatorship of Gen. Augusto Pinochet Mireya Garcia is among 27,000 Chileans who will finally get government compensation. “It’s very special for us, who were kept anonymous for almost 31 years, that the state admits that we were tortured,” Garcia told The Associated Press Monday. “Telling the nation that we were tortured is the first act of reparation. Little by little, this begins to be a healing process.” Full Story