“... He’s a sadistic torturer with a penchant for horsewhips and perversity. ... 'His hiring undermines our moral authority on both human rights and in
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By Alex Constantine (From "Terror on the Right") The Condor Precursor ... "The 9/11 attack was the parallel to the Pinochet coup ... Operation Condor ...
Roger Plant joined Amnesty International in 1972 to cover the organization’s work on Latin America. A few months after Pinochet took power by force, he w
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Photo: Pope John Paul II is welcomed by Augusto Pinochet as he arrives in Santiago on April 1, 1987. The Vatican once dismissed reports of massacres by C
By Alejandro Martínez Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas, December 17, 2012 Unknown men broke into the home of Chilean journalist Mauricio Weib
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Photo: Dr. Hartmut Hopp By Alex Constantine Jorge Zepeda, minister of jurisdiction at the Court of Appeals in Santiago, Chile has closed his investigation
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" ... The death certificate issued at the clinic listed the cause of death as cachexia, or extreme malnutrition and weight loss that left him unable to car
" ... Despite Kissinger's public warnings to respect human rights, the CIA kept close ties to Chileans they knew were committing abuses, paying some for in
Under the heading of: “Chile, the convent of the Americas? A country between the Opus Dei and Liberalism” the German journalist Maurice Weibel analyzes
" ... An autopsy from 2009 found that the folk singer died from dozens of gunshot wounds all over his body ... " By EVA VERGARA Associated Press | December
" ... And as I learn more about this particular case, I’m further struck by the U.S. government’s complicity. American Michael Townley, a former CIA ag