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Tag: Augusto Pinochet

  • Tuesday, August 29th 2023 - 08:38 UTC

    Chile: Sentences against Víctor Jara's murderers upheld

    ara was a Communist Party militant close to deposed President Allende (Pic AFP)

    Chile's Supreme Court Monday sentenced seven retired military officers involved in the Sept. 12, 1973, kidnapping and murder of singer-songwriter Víctor Jara to 25 years in jail, it was reported in Santiago. Those convicted are between 73 and 85 years old and are all at liberty.

  • Monday, August 28th 2023 - 10:24 UTC

    Chilean top military brass letter to President Boric on the 50th anniversary of the coup

    An impressive Chilean military parade, reminds the country lives in a complicated neighborhood surrounded by countries with territorial claims

    Just a couple of weeks before the commemoration events of the fiftieth anniversary of the Chilean coup d'état (11 September), retired Generals and Admirals addressed a letter to President Gabriel Boric.

  • Sunday, August 27th 2023 - 02:51 UTC

    Documents revealing US involvement in Pinochet's coup declassified

    Chile's Deputy Foreign Minister Gloria de la Fuente thanked President Joseph Biden's administration for the transparency process

    Documents revealing the US government's involvement in the Sept. 11, 1973, coup d'état against Chilean President Salvador Allende have been declassified, it was reported in Santiago.

  • Thursday, August 10th 2023 - 10:54 UTC

    Chilean lawmakers want to know about US involvement in 1973 coup

    “A half-truth is a complete lie,” Kaiser argued

    Chile's Lower House Wednesday agreed to ask President Gabriel Boric Font to instruct the Foreign Ministry to request the government of the United States to release the details of its involvement in the Sept. 11, 1973, coup d'état staged by General Augusto Pinochet Ugarte against the democratically-elected Salvador Allende, it was reported in Santiago.

  • Saturday, July 22nd 2023 - 10:58 UTC

    Chile: No house arrest for those convicted of human rights violations

    “Crimes against humanity are unamnestible,” Cordero said

    The Chilean administration of President Gabriel Boric Font Friday spoke against granting house arrest to military personnel convicted of human rights violations during the Augusto Pinochet dictatorship (1973-1990). Justice Minister Luis Cordero denounced a proposal submitted by the ultra-right Republican Party in this regard.

  • Wednesday, July 12th 2023 - 10:45 UTC

    Pinochet, not a “President,” Chile's Lower House approves

    Pinochet's name should not be among those of the people who were elected President of Chile

    Chile's Lower House Tuesday passed a resolution striping late dictator Augusto Pinochet Ugarte from the title of “president” by 67 votes against 47 and 8 abstentions, it was reported in Santiago. The initiative should not pass to the Senate as it is a draft statement that also defines Pinochet as a “military and political figure” and his government (1973-1990) as an “authoritarian regime.”

  • Thursday, June 1st 2023 - 10:33 UTC

    One-third of Chileans okay with Pinochet overthrowing Allende

    “Pinochet was a coward... never a statesman,” Boric argued

    Over 30 % of Chile's population still approves of General Augusto Pinochet staging a military coup d'état nearly half a century ago to topple Socialist President Salvador Allende, according to a study by Market Opinion Research International (MORI) released in Santiago this week.

  • Monday, September 12th 2022 - 10:11 UTC

    Violence marks commemoration of 1973 coup in Santiago

    Some demonstrators threw Molotov cocktails at Carabineros police. Boric insisted dialogue was the way. Photo: Carlos Vera / Reuters

    Riots and looting were reported Sunday in Santiago during demonstrations marking another anniversary of the coup d'état that in 1973 toppled then-President Salvador Allende and started the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet which lasted until 1990.

  • Tuesday, August 16th 2022 - 21:01 UTC

    Chile's proposed Constitution unlikely to prevail

    Rejection seems to be a good thing for Chile's economy

    Three weeks ahead of Chile's Constitutional Plebiscite, the nays (Rejection)are still ahead, according to a survey by the consulting firm Cadem, which showed 46% of the voters would rather keep the Constitution drafted under Dictator Augusto Pinochet in 1980 instead of adopting the one penned by the Constitutional Assembly convened last year.

  • Tuesday, July 5th 2022 - 09:55 UTC

    Boric given draft of new Chilean Constitution

    If approved in the September 4 plebiscite, the document will replace the neoliberal Carta Magna from the Pinochet era, which favors privatizations.

    Chilean President Gabriel Boric Font Monday received the draft of the new Constitution after one year of work by the Assembly. The document is now to be put up for approval through a referendum in September.