Tag: Augusto Pinochet

• 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.

• 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”

  

  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.