'It became an obsession': the long search for the remains of Pinochet's victims

As Chile marks 50 years since the coup, women who have scoured the desert for remains of their husbands fear the brutality of the death squads will be forgotten For nearly two decades, Violeta Berríos and Victoria Saavedra scoured Chile's Atacama desert looking for any trace of their missing loved ones. Each evening as dusk fell across the barren plain, they would pile a few small rocks to mark the extent of their search, then turn back into the gloom empty-handed, agreeing to resume the next d...