A place of competition and suffering. Perhaps this title can be enigmatic, but it is real. In Santiago de Chile there is a stadium called national stadium. The national stadium is an old sports coliseum built in 1933, and is still in use. This stadium can be used to practice soccer, and different branches of atheism, it is also used for artistic concerts. This place has been the stage of important sporting events and big concerts like Rod Steguart, Gun's and Roses, Paul Mccartney, Sting and others, but this place also has a dark history. In September 1973, the military got power through the coup d'état. They overthrew the socialist president Salvador Allende, and imposed a dictatorship for 17 years. In the first years, the military used the national stadium as a place of prisons for people who opposed the new government. So the national stadium became a place of torture and death. When Chile returned to democracy in 1990, President-elect Patricio Aylwin held a major event at the national stadium to celebrate and remember the people who suffered there. The national stadium has been remodeled, but there is a part that remains the same as 1973 in honor to who were there.