Secrets We Keep Uncovered | Unmasking the alleged torturer turned Bondi nanny | Part 2
A CIA-backed coup. A hidden Australian connection. And a suburban nanny with a secret past.
In Part Two of Unmasking the Alleged Torturer Turned Bondi Nanny, Uruguayan-Australian journalist Florencia Melgar takes us inside her extraordinary interview with Adriana Rivas — a former member of Augusto Pinochet’s secret police, accused of some of the dictatorship’s most brutal crimes.
While living in Sydney’s Bondi, working as a nanny, Rivas was wanted in Chile for crimes against humanity. In a rare and revealing conversation, she describes how she fled Chile while on bail — paying smugglers to escape through the Andes before returning to Australia, where she had lived since the late 1970s.
In this episode, we hear how Rivas justifies torture, glorifies a brutal regime, and reflects on the power she once held.
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- ABC Foreign Correspondent, Facing the Past
- More on Australia’s involvement in Chile: 'Last thing he wanted was to embarrass the CIA': Inside Whitlam's 'agonising' decision to shut Australian spy operation in Chile
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Credits:
- Host: Joey Watson
- Supervising Producer: Claudianna Blanco
- Sound Design: Matt Nikolic
- Head of Factual: Clair Weaver
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