The Crimes of Augusto Pinochet This site contains accounts of the crimes of Augusto Pinochet, who ruled Chile from 1973 to 1990. The texts explain what people are talking about when they call him a dictator or strong man who committed a few human rights violations . These reports tend to confirm one another, and collectively give some idea of the range and scale of the atrocities. Case ...

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Chile 1964-1973 A hammer and sickle stamped on your child's forehead excerpted from the book Killing Hope by William Blum When Salvador Allende, a committed Marxist, came within three percent of winning the Chilean presidency in 1958, the United States decided that the next election, in 1964, could not be left in the hands of providence, or democracy. Washington took it all very gravely. At the ...

Orlando Letelier from the book The CIAs Greatest Hits by Mark Zapezauer Are you the wife of Orlando Letelier asked the anonymous caller. Yes, she answered. No, the caller said, ~ you are his widow. A week later, on September 21, 1976, the exiled Chilean diplomat and prominent critic of the CIA-backed Pinochet regime was torn to pieces by a car bomb on the streets of Washington DC. Also ...

Banishing The Myths The stereotypes that Pinochet generated after his coup still haunt the political future of Latin America ...