ABSTRACT
The song Washington Bullets, Joe Strummer sings about the terror that ensued during the Pinochet years, and the author heard the song, and it prompted him to consider Chile as a destination for crime-related dark tourism. Bidden by Joe Strummer'a angry guitar chords, he took up his beseeching call to remember Victor Jara and the other victims of the Pinochet regime by seeking to visit sites associated with their torture and death. In the author mind the reconstructions, models, traces, garden, tree grove, and evidence at Villa Grimaldi work in unison provide powerful conduits through which a dark tourist might imaginatively contemplate the nightmarish plight. His tour of Villa Grimaldi ended at the front of the Park, where tourists encounter a giant five-by-five metre inclined verdigris cube. It contains a powerful exhibit entitled The Rails of Quintero Bay. The final destination on the author dark tourism itinerary is a place of infamy in the history of Pinochet's dictatorship.
