“... He’s a sadistic torturer with a penchant for horsewhips and perversity. ... 'His hiring undermines our moral authority on both human rights and in
As the agency strives to craft a cuddly new image, we mustn't allow it to whitewash its history of torture and murder By Owen Jones The Guardian, June 8,
Photo: Usurper: Gen. Augusto Pinochet talks to an attendee at a military school parade in Santiago, Chile, on Aug. 23, 1997. | BLOOMBERG Oct 12, 2013 STOR
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
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 Anna Grummitton I Love Chile, January 29, 2013 The men received sentences yesterday of between five and eleven years for being accomplices to rape in t
By Alejandro Martínez Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas, December 17, 2012 Unknown men broke into the home of Chilean journalist Mauricio Weib
A branch of the Riggs National Bank on Pennsylania Avenue in Washington, DC, is pictured on April 20, 2004. Texas financier and media magnate Joe Allbritto
BrazzilMag, November 29, 2012 The head of Brazil's Justice and Human Rights Movement, Jair Krischke stated before the Truth Committee that it was the Br
Photo: Dr. Hartmut Hopp By Alex Constantine Jorge Zepeda, minister of jurisdiction at the Court of Appeals in Santiago, Chile has closed his investigation
By Brian McAfee Global Research, June 14, 2011 The body of former Chilean President Salvador Allende was exhumed in May in an attempt to determine whether
BY MAURICIO WEIBEL Business Recorder, August 05, 2012 The dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet (1973-1990) systematically spied on foreign media correspondent
" ... 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
" ... 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
By Raúl Zibechi The Guardian | 11 September 2010 The body of Salvador Allende is carried from the destroyed presidential palace of La Moneda, Santiago on
Note: "Dewey" Clarridge claims below that 200 people were murdered in the Pinochet coup. This is a gross misunderstatement, There were so many decapitated
Independent Online | July 30 2010 The Late General Carlos Prats Santiago - The former head of Chile's secret police has denied involvement in the murder