El Helicoide,一个由加拉加斯购物中心改建为拘留中心的建筑,尽管有人呼吁将其改建为人权博物馆,仍将改建为体育综合体。
El Helicoide, a Caracas mall turned detention center, to be converted to sports complex despite calls to make it a human rights museum.
委内瑞拉首都卡拉加斯的El Helicoide是一个巨大的未完工商场, 自1980年代以来一直被用作拘留和酷刑中心.
El Helicoide, a massive, unfinished 1950s shopping mall in Caracas, Venezuela, has become a symbol of state repression after being used since the 1980s as a detention and torture center.
最初设计为一个具有螺旋式坡道的未来型车载商场, 由于经济崩而在1960年停工.
Originally designed as a futuristic drive-in mall with spiraling ramps, construction halted in 1960 due to financial collapse.
尼古拉斯·马杜罗统治期间, 它关押政治犯遭受酷刑,强迫承认和孤立.
Under Nicolás Maduro’s rule, it held political prisoners subjected to torture, forced confessions, and isolation.
2026年初, 随着马杜罗在美国行动中被捕并根据新的大赦法释放数百名囚犯后, 代理总统德尔西·罗德里格斯宣布将该地点改为体育场.
In early 2026, following Maduro’s arrest in a U.S. operation and the release of hundreds of prisoners under a new amnesty law, acting President Delcy Rodríguez announced plans to convert the site into a sports complex.
幸存者和人权倡导者反对此举, 要求将其变成博物馆以保存虐待的记忆并防止重演.
Survivors and human rights advocates oppose the move, calling for it to become a museum to preserve the memory of abuses and prevent their repetition.