Tag: Eduardo Frei Montalva

• Thursday, January 31st 2019 - 09:53 UTC

  Chilean Justice makes history: Six people sentenced for the murder of ex-president Eduardo Frei Montalva

  

  Six people were sentenced to up to 10 years in prison on Wednesday for the 1982 death of former President Eduardo Frei Montalva, marking a historic ruling in the highest profile murder case from Gen. Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship.

• Thursday, September 5th 2013 - 01:36 UTC

  ”The majority of ministers of Piñera’s government are all children of Pinochet”

  

  A prominent backer of the 1973 military coup against elected President Salvador Allende said that General Augusto Pinochet betrayed those who supported the putsch out of patriotic sentiments. Roberto Thieme, a founder of the nationalist Homeland and Freedom movement, known as PyL, spoke out a week before the 40th anniversary of Allende's bloody ouster in an interview with Radio Cooperativa.

• Thursday, February 10th 2011 - 06:55 UTC

  WikiLeaks: US believes former Chilean leader death “to remain a mystery”

  

  An embassy cable published this week by WikiLeaks revealed a 2009 email in which then-U.S ambassador to Chile, Paul Simons, predicted that former President Eduardo Frei Montalva’s controversial 1982 death would never be fully understood. “The tragic recent history of Chile continues to divide its people, and the death of this emblematic President seems destined to remain a mystery.”