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Santiago opens Pan American Games with nod to the Indigenous, poetry and memory of dictatorship

Pan Am Games
October 21, 2023

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — The opening ceremony of Chile's first Pan American Games on Friday was not only a celebration of athletes, Indigenous peoples and poetry, but laid bare the politically divided country's scars from the military dictatorship of Gen. Augusto Pinochet from 1973 until 1990.

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