Tag: military regime

• Thursday, August 31st 2023 - 15:13 UTC

  Chile launches “Truth and Justice” program to determine forced disappearances under dictator Pinochet

  

  Chile's government launched a program on Wednesday that seeks to determine what happened to more than 1,000 people during  Augusto Pinochet's military dictatorship 50 years ago.

• Monday, April 1st 2019 - 06:20 UTC

  Brazilian armed forces paid tribute to the 1964 coup, soberly, despite Bolsonaro's encouragement

  

  Brazil's armed forces on Sunday paid tribute to a 1964 coup leading to a two-decade dictatorship, after far-right President Jair Bolsonaro, who argues that military intervention saved the country from communism, reversed an 8-year-ban on celebrations.

• Wednesday, December 12th 2018 - 07:14 UTC

  Jail sentences for ex Ford executives for collaborating with Argentine military regime

  

  Two former Ford executives in Argentina have been given long jail sentences for collaborating with the country's brutal military regime in 1976-83. Factory manager Pedro Muller was sentenced to 10 years and ex-security chief Hector Sibilla given 12 years.

• Monday, March 28th 2011 - 01:09 UTC

  Brazil only country that retains 1979 Amnesty law dictated by the military

  

  Contrary to the rest of Latin American countries, Brazil is the only where an amnesty law sanctioned by the military dictatorship in 1979 remains effective, ignoring a ruling from the Inter American Court of Human Rights, according to jurist Helio Bicudo.