The song "They Dance Alone" by the artist Sting is about which country's dictatorship?

"They Dance Alone" (Cueca Solo) is a protest song composed by the English musician Sting. It was first published on his 1987 album "...Nothing Like the Sun". The song was the 5th and final single released from the album. It is considered a metaphor, referring to mourning Chilean women (arpilleristas) who dance the Cueca, the national dance of Chile, alone with photographs in their hands of disappeared loved ones.

Sting was accompanied on the song by Eric Clapton, Fareed Haque, and Mark Knopfler on guitar with Rubén Blades providing additional Spanish vocals.

Sting explained this song as a symbolic gesture of protest against the Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet whose regime killed thousands of people between 1973 and 1990. The song is one that was recorded in both English (with some spoken Spanish words by the Panamanian salsa singer, Rubén Blades) and Spanish (with additional lyrics by Roberto Livi).