Tag: Augusto Pinochet

Saturday, September 13th 2014 - 07:02 UTC
Bachelet government seek to repeal dictator Pinochet's Amnesty Law

As Chileans commemorated the 41 st anniversary of the 1973 military coup, Justice Minister José Antonio Gomez announced that the government of Michelle Bachelet will seek to repeal the Amnesty Law, a legacy of the dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet.
Friday, September 12th 2014 - 06:16 UTC
Chilean lawmaker arrested for alleged involvement in killing of activists in 1981

Forty-one years to the day after General Augusto Pinochet seized power in a military coup in Chile, a right-wing legislator was arrested for alleged involvement in the killing of three activists during the 17-year Pinochet dictatorship.
Monday, August 18th 2014 - 06:52 UTC
“Chile not proud of Falklands war support”, but “proud of peace treaty with Argentina”

Defense minister Jorge Burgos said that most Chileans are not proud of the attitude of the Pinochet dictatorship when the Falklands/Malvinas war, but also admitted it happened at a very different and difficult moment in the relations between Chile and Argentina.
Tuesday, July 8th 2014 - 07:25 UTC
“Without Chile's help, we would have lost the Falklands”, says former RAF intelligence

Chile's support for Britain during the Falklands War has been revealed for the first time by the man who was dispatched, with only hours notice, to secure a South American ally, according to an article in the Daily Telegraph credited to Harriet Alexander.
Monday, November 18th 2013 - 17:51 UTC
Two ladies in the runoff for Chile's presidency, but Pinochet's legacy is still around

Two ladies and daughters of Air Force generals (but from opposite sides) will be disputing the run off on 15 December when the next Chilean president will be elected. Given the fact that on last Sunday's first round Socialist Michelle Bachelet was only three points short of a majority, and over twenty points ahead of conservative Evelyn Matthei there should be no doubts about who will be inaugurated at La Moneda next March 2014.
Friday, September 13th 2013 - 00:27 UTC
Serious rioting in Santiago marks the fortieth anniversary of Pinochet’s coup

At least 42 policemen were injured and 264 protesters arrested in violent clashes as Chile marked the 40th anniversary of the coup that brought Augusto Pinochet to power, officials said on Thursday.
Thursday, September 5th 2013 - 01:36 UTC
”The majority of ministers of Piñera’s government are all children of Pinochet”

A prominent backer of the 1973 military coup against elected President Salvador Allende said that General Augusto Pinochet betrayed those who supported the putsch out of patriotic sentiments. Roberto Thieme, a founder of the nationalist Homeland and Freedom movement, known as PyL, spoke out a week before the 40th anniversary of Allende's bloody ouster in an interview with Radio Cooperativa.
Thursday, September 5th 2013 - 01:21 UTC
Chile’s Judges apologize for their passive complicity with the Pinochet regime.

Chile's judges issued a long-awaited apology on Wednesday to relatives of those who sought missing loved ones under the military regime of Dictator Augusto Pinochet only to have courts shrug them off.
Tuesday, August 6th 2013 - 03:10 UTC
Chilean judge closes case into the origin of Pinochet millions

Chilean court decided on Monday not to charge any of late Dictator Augusto Pinochet's family members in a long-running investigation into the origin of the general's fortune and his suspected embezzlement of public funds.
Monday, June 17th 2013 - 06:51 UTC
Falklands’ conflict depicted in opera ‘Allies’ based on Pinochet-Thatcher relationship

The relationship between former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and ex-Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet has been turned into an opera which opened in Paris for a five-night run. “Allies” revolves around a televised 1999 meeting of the two late leaders when Pinochet was being held under house arrest in Britain.