BBC News - 24 March
2005
Pinochet murder case blocked
Augusto Pinochet cannot be prosecuted over the killing
of his predecessor as Chile's army chief, the country's Supreme Court has ruled. The court
upheld his legal immunity in the case, blocking efforts to try him for his alleged role in
the 1974 assassination of Gen Carlos Prats. Chile's Pinochet released
on bail
Court backs Pinochet
murder trial
Pinochet murder case goes
ahead
Chilean judge charges
Pinochet
In pictures: Pinochet trial
reaction
In quotes: Delight and
anger
Historic ruling: Joy
and shock on the streets of Santiago at the news that Pinochet can stand trial
Condor legacy haunts S America
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BBC News - 17 March
2005
Pinochet
bank report angers Chile
Chileans demand Gen Augusto Pinochet pay back the
money hidden in secret bank accounts revealed by a US Senate report, the BBC's Clinton
Porteous says.| 17/03/2005 |
Torture victims slam Chile
payout
Groups representing torture victims of Chile's former military government reject a
proposed compensation deal. |
30/11/2004 | similar
stories
Chile torture victims win
payout
Thousands tortured under Augusto Pinochet's former military regime in Chile are granted
compensation. | 29/11/2004
| similar
stories
Daughter
rues Pinochet-era abuses
Lucia Pinochet, daughter of Chile's former military ruler, condemns the use of torture
under her father's rule.|
12/11/2004 | similar
stories
Chile's torture report
finalised
Chile's President Lagos is presented with a major report on torture during Gen Augusto
Pinochet's military regime.|
10/11/2004 | similar
stories
Chile army admits rights
abuses
Chile's military for the first time accepts responsibility for human rights abuses under
Gen Pinochet's rule. |
05/11/2004 | similar
stories
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2 December 2004
Pinochet faces murder probe
A Chilean court has stripped former military ruler
Augusto Pinochet of his legal immunity over the murder of his predecessor as army chief.
The decision means he can be investigated for his alleged role in the killing of Gen
Carlos Prats, who died in a car bomb attack in 1974.
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Chile's armed
forces
Unravelling a tortured past
Dec 2nd 2004
SANTIAGO From The Economist print edition
The armed forces are finally found guilty of the dictatorship's abuses. ALMOST 15
years after the end of Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship, Chileans have been confronted with
the magnitude and cruelty of the torture it inflicted. After hearing the testimonies of
35,000 political detainees, an official commission has concluded that torture was a
habitual practice of the armed forces and police throughout the dictatorship.
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November 29, 2004
Chile: Government Discloses Torture Was State Policy
Commission Calls for Reparations for Thousands
Tortured During Pinochet Era
A Chilean presidential commission has provided an
overwhelming indictment of the military dictatorship’s systematic use of torture,
Human Rights Watch said today. In a report released last night, the commission collected
testimony from thousands of torture victims who had never previously reported the abuse
they had suffered.
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25 November 2004
Asset freeze as Pinochet turns 89
Chile's former military ruler, Gen Augusto Pinochet,
is marking his 89th birthday amid news that more of his assets have been frozen by a
judge.
Judicial sources say assets worth more than $4m, mainly property, were frozen by Judge
Sergio Munoz last week.
Gen Pinochet is being sued by Chile's authorities for tax fraud and faces a
money-laundering inquiry.
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Daughter
rues Pinochet-era abuses - 12 Nov 04
Chile's
torture report finalised - 10 Nov 04
Dementia
diagnosis for Pinochet - 15 Oct 04
Pinochet
faces tax evasion charge - 01 Oct 04
Pinochet
quizzed on bank accounts - 21 Aug 04
Judge
to probe Pinochet finances - 21 Jul 04
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6 November 2004
(BBC World Service)
The Chilean army has for the first time accepted responsibility
for human rights violations carried out during military rule by Gen Augusto Pinochet.
The admission is a reversal of the army's previous
position, which held that abuses of 1973-1990 were excesses carried out by individual
officers. In a statement, army commander Gen Juan Emilio Cheyre said the decision was
"difficult but irreversible".
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ZNet |
Memories of Chile in the Midst of an American Presidential
Campaign
Ariel Dorfman (October 2004)
Day after day over the past three years, as I watched Americans respond to the terror that
unexpectedly descended upon them on September 11th, 2001, the direst memories of Chile and
its dictatorship resonated in my mind. There was something dreadfully familiar in the
patriotic posturing, the militarization of society, the way in which anyone who dared to
be faintly critical was automatically branded as a traitor. Yes, I had seen that before:
"You are either with us or against us." I had seen it far too often -- national
security trumpeted as a justification for any excess in the pursuit of an elusive enemy.
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From The Economist,
21 October 2004:
Chile's new constitution
Untying the knot
Chile looks set to purge the vestiges of dictatorship
from the constitution
WHEN Ricardo Lagos became Chile's president in March 2000, he promised “a
constitution that passes the test of full democracy”. Thanks to a new cross-party
agreement, that promise now seems close to being fulfilled. The constitution, written by
General Augusto Pinochet's 1973-90 dictatorship, was approved by a plebiscite in 1980, but
its legitimacy was as thin as the transparent voting papers used in the plebiscite, and
its intentions were just as undemocratic...
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Rebeca Evans, 20
October 2004
Pinochet and the Chilean Military's Tarnished Legacy
Pinochet’s current troubles, as well as the
ongoing legal proceeding against other officials of the former regime, demonstrate that
the unfinished business left over from the era of the military rule continues to preoccupy
Chile. This has frustrated military officials like General Cheyre, who recently criticized
the fact that the military has been made the scapegoat for all the excesses committed
under the military regime and called for an end to interminable human rights trials. Yet
so long as officials from the previous regime deny responsibility and information on the
fate of the disappeared only comes to light in periodic, fortuitous finds – such as
the recent discovery of sections of rail track that had been used to weigh down the bodies
of dissidents dumped at sea – the search for truth and justice will have to continue.
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| The Washington Post files on Pinochet and his gang of
criminals. |
| Andre Gunder Frank:
Economic Genocide in Chile. Monetarist
versus Humanity. |
Róbinson Rojas:
The artful staging of
a "suicide"
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Róbinson Rojas: The
Chilean Armed Forces: a political organization
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Róbinson Rojas: The
Chilean Armed Forces: a band of criminals
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Róbinson Rojas: The
Chilean Armed Forces: training dogs to rape political prisoners
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H. O'Shaughnessy: Chile's
family torture sessions shock nation
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P. O'Brian: Pinochet
and his secret police crimes
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| The Trial of Henry Kissinger |
| TNI: Bring Pinochet to justice! |
Memoria
y Justicia
The cases against Augusto Pinochet in Chile |
For memory, truth and justice
in
Algeria | Argentina
Brazil | Colombia
Chile | México
Panamá | Perú
Philippines
Turkey | Uruguay
Western Sahara
Other Countries
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M. Chossudovsky
(11/09/03)
In the weeks leading up the coup, US Ambassador Nathaniel Davis and members of the CIA
held meetings with Chile's top military brass together with the leaders of the National
Party and the ultra-right nationalist front Patria y Libertad. While the undercover role
the Nixon administration is amply documented, what is rarely mentioned in media reports is
the fact that the military coup was also supported by a sector of the Christian Democratic
Party
Chile, September 11, 1973: The Ingredients of a Military Coup |
(The Guardian,
11/09/03)
September 11 2003: As the world marks the second anniversary of the terrorist attacks on
New York and Washington, Chileans are remembering their own September 11. Thirty years ago
today, the democratically elected Marxist government of Salvador Allende was overthrown in
a US-backed coup headed by the then-head of the Chilean armed forces, General Augusto
Pinochet. With Washington's blessing and support, Pinochet set up a military dictatorship
that was to last 16 years, and under which thousands of civilians were tortured, murdered
or simply disappeared in a manhunt designed to wipe out left-wing politics in Chile for
good.
Chile: 30
years after the coup |
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United Nations (19
May 2004)
Committee
Against Torture issues conclusions on reports of Chile and New Zealand |
M. Chossudovsky
(11/09/03)
In the weeks leading up the coup, US Ambassador Nathaniel Davis and members of the CIA
held meetings with Chile's top military brass together with the leaders of the National
Party and the ultra-right nationalist front Patria y Libertad. While the undercover role
the Nixon administration is amply documented, what is rarely mentioned in media reports is
the fact that the military coup was also supported by a sector of the Christian Democratic
Party
Chile, September 11, 1973: The Ingredients of a Military Coup |
(The Guardian,
11/09/03)
September 11 2003: As the world marks the second anniversary of the terrorist attacks on
New York and Washington, Chileans are remembering their own September 11. Thirty years ago
today, the democratically elected Marxist government of Salvador Allende was overthrown in
a US-backed coup headed by the then-head of the Chilean armed forces, General Augusto
Pinochet. With Washington's blessing and support, Pinochet set up a military dictatorship
that was to last 16 years, and under which thousands of civilians were tortured, murdered
or simply disappeared in a manhunt designed to wipe out left-wing politics in Chile for
good.
Chile: 30
years after the coup |
(The BBC, 11/09/03)
11
September , 1973 - The day democracy died in Chile |
Roger Burbach (The
Guardian, 11/09/03)
State Terrorism and
September 11, 1973 and 2001 |
Editorial (The NYT,
11/09/03)
The Other Sept. 11 |
L. Rohter (The NYT,
07/09/03)
Chile's Leader Presses
Rights Issues Softly but Successfully |
The crimes of the
Chilean generals
Esmeralda: the torture ship |
| The National
Security Archive:Chile
Documentation Project |
| IPS: Bring Pinochet to
Justice |
| H. O'Shaughnessy: Pinochet, a master of
duplicity |
| H. O'Shaughnessy: Revealed: Pinochet drug
smuggling |
| K. Sengupta: How a 'fat fish' finally
slipped through the net |
| J. McGirk: The ghost of Chile's
repressive past |
| P Stephems: Still imprisoned by his past |
| British government justification to grant freedom to a serial killer named
Augusto Pinochet Ugarte |
| New Amendments to the Chilean Constitution Confers Absolute Immunity to
General A. Pinochet |
| The Economist: Releasing Pinochet (The murderer returns a pitiful figure) |
| The Economist: The Pinochet Affair.
Blackwashing Allende |
| T. Karon: Pinochet's Life Sentence |
| On "Pinochet and the
Politics of Torture", by H. O'Shaughnessy |
| Amnesty
International: The case
of general Pinochet |
| The Black Book of the Chilean Judiciary (1999)
(Spanish) |
| Report by the National Committee on Truth and
Reconciliation. 1991.(Spanish) |
| Amnesty International
on Chile |
Notorious Chilean School of the Americas
Graduates
SOA: Students and
instructors from Chile 1951-1996 |
| M. Cooper: Chile
and the end of Pinochet (2001) |
| The House of Lords'
resolution on general Augusto Pinochet immunity (November 1998) |
| The House of Lords'
resolution on general Augusto Pinochet immunity (March 1999) |
| M.
Neumann: The
crimes of Augusto Pinochet |
| Human
Rights Watch: The
Pinochet Prosecution |
| The truth about Pinochet |
| A tale of two
Chileans: Allende and Pinochet compared |
Lieutenant Junior Grade C. Ruefli USN: A denial
O. Letelier: Chile:
economic 'freedom' and political repression
K. Coughlan: The dark
side of Chile's economic miracle. 1992
A. Hejslet: The Chilean
Experience 1974-1998
S. Kangas: The Chicago
boys and the "Chilean economic miracle"
C. Schneider: Chile:
the underside of the miracle |
| National
Security, Freedom of Expression and access to Information in Chile |
| Chile Vive |
Róbinson
Rojas, June 1974
The Murder of Allende. And the End of the
Chilean Way to Socialism
A
Necessary Explanation
Ch 1. The Artful Staging of a
"Suicide" - The
rebel forces - The background
of the conspiracy - Staging
the "suicide" - The
contradictions - What really
happened
Ch. 2. Why was the general
assassinated? - The Schneider
case - A problem for the U.S.
- Allende, the new president - Now what? - The hard-liners - Strength and weakness - The constitutionalists
Ch. 3. The bosses conspire and the
workers mobilize - The empty
pots - The area of social
property - A minister general
- To advance or not to advance
- A new military plot - October 1972
Ch. 4. The Pentagon tells the
generals to go ahead - The
political failure - The
elections - The generals -
Now or never
Ch. 5. The general is not an
honorable man - The last
message - A new step forward
- A new military insurrection
- A long meeting - The pawns - A murder - Prats's ruin - And the Navy - The last days - The oath
Ch. 6. The inferno - Operation Pincers - The tortures - The women - Corruption
Notes for chapter 6 - NOTES
- INDEX |
TNI: The Pinochet
Precedent:
NEWS
Dossier Orlando Letelier
LINKS
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BBC News (28 May
2004)
Court lifts Pinochet's immunity
Chile's Pinochet victims testify
13 May 04
US revisits Pinochet 'secrets'
04 May 04
Pinochet's police chief jailed
18 May 04 |
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The National
Security Archive:
Chile
Documentation Project |
Report by the Committee on Truth and Reconciliation
(1991)
(Rettig Report. Chile)
Contents
Foreword
Introduction
to the English Edition
Guide
to the English Edition
Guide
to the Editor's Notes
Acronyms
Introduction
Supreme
Decree No. 355
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PART ONE
Chapter
One
Chapter
Two
PART TWO
Chapter
One
Chapter
Two
Chapter
Three
Chapter
Four
PART THREE
Chapter
One
Chapter
Two
Chapter
Three
Chapter
Four
Chapter
Five
PART FOUR
Chapter
One
Chapter
Two
Chapter
Three
Chapter
Four
APPENDICES
Appendix
I
Appendix
II
Appendix
III |
| Institute for
Police Studies: Bring
Pinochet to Justice |
| |
| H. O'Shaughnessy: Pinochet, a
master of duplicity |
| H. O'Shaughnessy: Revealed:
Pinochet drug smuggling |
| How a 'fat fish' finally
slipped through the net |
| The ghost of Chile's
repressive past |
| Still imprisoned by his past |
| British government justification
to grant freedom to a serial killer named Augusto Pinochet Ugarte |
| |
| New Amendments to the Chilean
Constitution Confers Absolute Immunity to General A. Pinochet |
| The Economist: Releasing Pinochet (The murderer returns a
pitiful figure) |
| The Economist: The Pinochet Affair. Blackwashing Allende |
| Tony Karon: Pinochet's Life Sentence |
| On "Pinochet and the Politics of Torture", by H.
O'Shaughnessy |
| Amnesty
International: The case of general Pinochet |
| The Black Book of the Chilean Judiciary (1999) (Spanish) El Libro Negro de la Justicia Chilena (1999) |
| |
| Amnesty International on Chile |
Notorious Chilean School of the Americas Graduates
SOA: Students and instructors from Chile 1951-1996
SOA: Estudiantes e instructores chilenos 1951-1996 |
| M. Cooper: Chile and the
end of Pinochet (2001) |
The House of Lords' resolution on
general Augusto Pinochet immunity (November 1998) |
The House of Lords' resolution on
general Augusto Pinochet immunity (March 1999) |
| M.
Neumann: The crimes of Augusto
Pinochet |
| Human
Rights Watch: The Pinochet
Decision |
| The truth about Pinochet |
| A tale of two Chileans: Allende and Pinochet
compared |
| The Chile Committee for Justice |
| Derechos Chile: Human Rights in
Chile |
| Chile Vive |
| Books
on Salvador Allende AMAZON Bookshop |
| CIA, State, NSC
documents declassified on Chile (June 1999) |
U.S. State
Department (The Pinochet Files).-F.O.I.A.
Document Collections
Summary
State Department Collections
• FOIA Released Documents
• Allegations of Drug Trafficking in L.A.
• Argentina Declassification Project (1975-1984)
• State Chile Declassification Project Tranche I (1973-1978)
• State Chile Declassification Project Tranche II (1968-1972)
• State Chile Declassification Project Tranche III (1979-1991)
• CIA Creation Documents
• El Salvador Churchwomen Documents
• Guatemala Collection
• Raoul Wallenberg
• El Salvador Collection
• Amelia Earhart Collection
• International Agreements Collection
• International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITARs)
Argentina Declassification Press Releases/Statements
• State
Department Press Release
Chile Declassification Press Releases/Statements
• 06/30/1999 State
Department Press Release
• 10/08/1999 State
Department Press Release
• 11/13/2000 State
Department Press Statement
• 06/30/1999 White House Press
Statement
• 10/08/1999 White House Press
Statement
• 11/13/2000 White House Press
Statement
Other Agency Chile Declassification Documents
NARA- National Archives and
Records Administration
CIA- Central Intelligence Agency
DOD- Department of Defense
FBI- Federal Bureau of
Investigation
DOJ- Department of Justice
NSC- National Security Council
Church Report - (Covert
Action in Chile, 1963-1973)
Hinchey Report - (CIA
Activities in Chile)
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| FBI Report on Directorate of National Intelligence (DINA) |
| Report of CIA Chilean Task Force Activities, 15 Sept/3 Nov 1970 |
| P.
Kornbluh: Declassified
documents relating to the military coup, September 11, 1973. |
| P.
Kornbluh: The Chile Coup - The U.S. Hand |
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| George
Washington University: The National Security
Archive |
| U.S.
Senate: Covert Action in Chile 1963-1973 |
| L.
Komisar : Kissinger declassified |
| L.
Komisar : Into the
Murky Depths of 'Operation Condor' |
| L.
Komisar : Documented complicity |
| School of the Americas Watch |
| Report of the Chilean National Commission on Truth
and Reconciliation |
| The Trial of Henry Kissinger |
| TNI: Bring Pinochet to justice! |
November 29, 2004
Chile: Government Discloses Torture Was State Policy
Commission Calls for Reparations for Thousands
Tortured During Pinochet Era
A Chilean presidential commission has provided an
overwhelming indictment of the military dictatorship’s systematic use of torture,
Human Rights Watch said today. In a report released last night, the commission collected
testimony from thousands of torture victims who had never previously reported the abuse
they had suffered.
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29 November 2004
"I told myself I wouldn't be killed"
The Chilean government has ordered lifelong pensions
to be paid to the more than 28,000 people tortured under the military regime of Gen
Augusto Pinochet.
Juana Aguilera is a former political prisoner in Chile, held for three years and nine
months between 1980 and 1984. She now works for the ministry of education.
She told the BBC News website her story:
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25 November 2004
Condor legacy haunts South America
By Robert Plummer BBC News
Of all the unresolved issues from the dark days of military rule in Latin America,
Operation Condor is among the most sinister.
Gen Pinochet faces charges in connection with Operation Condor
As many as six South American regimes took part in the joint campaign to hunt down and
kill their left-wing opponents.
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Riggs Uncovers Deep Ties to Pinochet
Internal Inquiry Finds Indications of Money Laundering
By Terence O'Hara
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, November 20, 2004
A Riggs Bank internal investigation has uncovered signs of money laundering by bank
employees, including efforts in 2003 to help Argentine naval officers hide $3.8 million in
cash to prevent seizure by investors after the Argentine government defaulted on bond
payments. The investigation by a small team of former Secret Service agents hired by Riggs
last year also discovered that efforts by former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet to hide
millions of dollars at Riggs go back to 1985, nearly 10 years earlier than previously
known. Pinochet came to power in a 1973 coup and instituted several years of bloody
repression. He resigned after a 1989 election, but he remained commander-in-chief of the
armed forces until 1998.
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