Estadio Nacional Julio Martínez Prádanos is the national stadium of Chile, and is located in the Ñuñoa district of Santiago. It is the largest stadium in Chile with an official capacity of 48,665. It is part of a 62 hectare sporting complex which also features tennis courts, an aquatics center, a modern gymnasium, a velodrome, a BMX circuit, and an assistant ground/warmup athletics track.
Estadio Nacional de Chile after the 1973 Chilean coup d'état
Marcelo Salas farewell match, June 2, 2009
In 2008, Madonna was the first international artist to perform two concerts in two consecutive days in the stadium since 1990. Pictured, the second show of her Sticky & Sweet Tour in the venue.
Augusto Pinochet
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Augusto José Ramón Pinochet Ugarte was a Chilean army officer and military dictator who ruled Chile from 1973 to 1990. He was the leader of the military junta from 1973 to 1981, and was declared President of the Republic by the junta in 1974 and thus became the dictator of Chile, and from 1981 to 1990 as de jure president after a new constitution which confirmed him in the office was approved by a referendum in 1980. His time in office remains the longest of any Chilean ruler.
The parents of Pinochet : Augusto Pinochet Vera and Avelina Ugarte Martínez
U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger with Pinochet in 1976
Pinochet in 1982