Tag: Augusto Pinochet

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.
Friday, June 8th 2012 - 20:30 UTC
Pinochet remains a strongly divisive figure in Chilean public opinion

Chilean Executive spokesperson Andrés Chadwick asserted the government’s impartiality toward Sunday’s screening of “Pinochet,” a documentary on Chile’s former dictator, amid calls from human rights organizations and local and national politicians for President Sebastian Piñera to intervene.
Thursday, April 5th 2012 - 14:29 UTC
Memorandum for Lady Thatcher on Chile’s support during Falklands’ conflict

It is a well known and admitted fact that the Chilean regime of General Augusto Pinochet provided very useful intelligence to the British effort to recover the occupied Falkland Islands in 1982.
Tuesday, February 28th 2012 - 17:49 UTC
Judge Garzón cleared of investigation into murders by Franco forces

Spain's Supreme Court cleared former judge Baltasar Garzón of overstepping his authority when he ordered an investigation into the murders of more than 100,000 people by forces loyal to late dictator Francisco Franco.
Wednesday, February 22nd 2012 - 00:05 UTC
Mines swept by heavy rainfall forces closure of Chile/Peru border passage

A main border pass between Chile and Peru remains closed to all traffic because recent heavy rainfall and flooding have swept antipersonnel and anti-tank mines in the region, in some cases all the way to the Pacific, where beaches have been put out of limits.
Thursday, February 9th 2012 - 20:20 UTC
Judge Garzon barred from office for challenging Spanish 1977 amnesty law

The famous human rights crusader, the Spanish judge who won fame with his attempt to extradite former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet in the 1990s, is barred from office for eleven years for abusing judicial powers.
Thursday, January 5th 2012 - 05:01 UTC
In Chilean schools, General Pinochet’ rule will be known as “a military regime”

$The Pinochet fracture continues to emerge in Chilean society$

A political row has broken out in Chile after it emerged that the Conservative government is changing the way school textbooks refer to the military rule of Gen Augusto Pinochet.
Friday, December 16th 2011 - 06:26 UTC
Disclosed documents reveal Brazilian strong support for the Pinochet regime in Chile

Brazilian newspaper Folha de São Paulo published a report on this week revealing a series of 266 telegrams from the Brazilian embassy in Santiago that unveiled strong economic and diplomatic ties between the nations’ military regimes in the early 1970s.
Friday, August 19th 2011 - 09:45 UTC
Pinochet’s regime official victims’ list increased by 9.800 to 40.018

Chile officially recognized 9,800 more victims of its dictatorship on Thursday, increasing the total number of people killed, tortured or imprisoned for political reasons to 40,018.