Tag: Augusto Pinochet

• 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.

• Wednesday, May 8th 2013 - 09:15 UTC

  Chilean court finds naval officers guilty of abduction of Anglo-Chilean priest

  

  Chilean court has found two ex-navy officers guilty of the abduction of Anglo-Chilean priest Michael Woodward. The left-wing priest disappeared shortly after the coup that brought Gen Augusto Pinochet to power in 1973 and his body has never been found.

• Thursday, April 11th 2013 - 07:12 UTC

  Margaret Thatcher, an Iron legacy for Latin America

  

  By Rafael Rincon - The following piece tries to explain how Lady Thatcher was seen in Latin America and the reactions her death has triggered in the region. ‘An Iron legacy’ was written by Chilean commentator Rafael Rincon, an expert in international relations and strategy and also linked to the oil industry.

• Thursday, April 11th 2013 - 07:04 UTC

  Pinochet followers call Lady Thatcher an “extraordinary world stateswoman”

  

  Followers of the late Chilean dictator Augusto Pinocher published two obituaries in the country’s leading newspaper expressing their condolences on the death of the former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, whom they describe as “an extraordinary stateswoman” and friend of Chile “in very difficult moments in recent history”

• Monday, April 8th 2013 - 19:39 UTC

  Chilean president describes Thatcher as a ‘brave woman’ and ‘a great loss for the world’

  

  Chilean President Sebastián Piñera said that the death of Margaret Thatcher “is a great loss for the world”, while relatives and followers of Augusto Pinochet recalled how close the two leaders were and the support extended to the military regime.

• Thursday, March 7th 2013 - 11:17 UTC

  Brazilian military regime supported financially Chilean dictator Pinochet

  

  Recently uncovered government documents reveal that former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet received 115 million dollars of support from the Brazilian military government during the 1970s.

• Friday, August 24th 2012 - 05:49 UTC

  Correa recalls the UK non extradition of Pinochet on “humanitarian reasons”

  

  Ecuador's President Rafael Correa said that Britain's failure to extradite former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet more than a decade ago means it has no right to lecture others over the fate of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.

• Wednesday, July 18th 2012 - 17:25 UTC

  Former Chilean president father alleged torturers formally charged with his death

  

  Chile charged two former officers in Augusto Pinochet's military dictatorship with being the “co-authors” of the torture that killed the father of former president Michelle Bachelet.

• Thursday, June 21st 2012 - 05:24 UTC

  Father of former president Bachelet was tortured to death by Pinochet dictatorship

  

  The father of former Chilean President Michelle Bachelet probably died as a result of torture after the 1973 military coup, a judge said in Santiago on Wednesday.

• Monday, June 11th 2012 - 05:25 UTC

  The past haunts Chile: film praising Pinochet triggers violent clashes in Santiago

  

  Hundreds of protesters clashed violently with police in the Chilean capital as they demonstrated on Sunday against the screening of a new documentary honouring the late dictator Augusto Pinochet.