When Chilean soldiers broke into her home and dragged her partner from bed on a spring night in 1986, Alicia Lira was 37 years old.
She ran behind the military vehicles screaming, but never saw her love Felipe Rivera again.
He was executed with several gunshots to the head.
Nearly four decades later, Lira says "the suffering is still alive."
She vows nothing will stop her from fighting for "justice and truth."
But the election of a far-right president in Chile's Sunday run-off revives the ghosts of Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship in a country that returned to democracy
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