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	Carlos Prats - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		General Carlos Prats González (1915 - 1974), was a Chilean political figure and Vice President during President Salvador Allende's government, and General Augusto Pinochet's predecessor as Commander-in-Chief of the Chilean Army.
		He was born in Talcahuano on February 2, 1915, the oldest son of Carlos Prats Risopatrón and Hilda González Suárez.
		The direction of DINA, including chief Manuel Contreras, ex-chief of operation and retired general Raul Iturriaga Neuman, his brother Roger Iturriaga, and ex-brigadiers Pedro Espinoza Bravo and Jose Zara, are accused in Chile of this assassination.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Carlos_Prats (514 words)

	Inter Press Service News Agency
		The murders of Prats and his wife Sofía Cuthbert were among the first acts of state terrorism cutting across national borders that were carried out by the de facto military regimes in the region.
		Prats' steadfast respect for the constitution was an obstacle for the plans to topple Allende, and in August 1973 the general was removed from the scene through a campaign of personal attacks waged by the right, in which the wives of officers who later took part in the coup actively participated.
		Prats' photo was later included in the army's gallery of former commanders, and he now appears in the army's official biographies.
	www.ipsnews.net /africa/print.asp?idnews=25694 (862 words)

	Alejandrina Cox incident - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Alejandrina Cox incident was a small scandal in Chilean history, involving General Carlos Prats, then Minister of the Interior for President Salvador Allende, that had a big impact on the course of Chilean history and the Chilean coup of 1973.
		On June 27, 1973, General Carlos Prats, army commander-in-chief and Interior minister of President Salvador Allende, was driving back to his home on his private car.
		As General Prat was approaching a busy intersection, a housewife named Alejandrina Cox, who happened to drive by in her own car, gave the General a raspberry - that is, she stuck her tongue out at him as an insult.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alejandrina_Cox_incident (566 words)

	CTV.ca - Chilean court strips Pinochet of immunity - CTV News, Shows and Sports -- Canadian Television
		Prats, a former chief of the Chilean army, opposed the 1973 U.S.-backed coup that put Pinochet in power and was among the first of an estimated several thousand people killed during Pinochet's rule.
		Prats' three daughters said Thursday they hope the high court upholds the appeals court ruling and allows the prosecution to go forward, said their lawyer, Pamela Pereira.
		Prats was head of Chile's army during the final months of Salvador Allende's presidency, which ended in the September 1973 coup.
	www.ctv.ca /servlet/ArticleNews/print/CTVNews/20041202/pinochet041202/20041202?hub=World&subhub=PrintStory (431 words)

	Inter Press Service News Agency
		Former army commander Prats and his wife Sofía Cuthbert were killed by a carbomb in 1974 in the Argentine capital, in an assassination that was planned and carried out by the Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional (DINA), Pinochet's secret police in the early years of the dictatorship.
		Prats did not support the 1973 coup d'etat and remained loyal to the constitution, and thus to democratically elected socialist President Salvador Allende, who was overthrown by Pinochet and died in the coup.
		The Prats family alleges that there is testimony that links Pinochet to the order to assassinate their father, while former DINA chief Contreras himself stated two months ago that Pinochet was ”the head of DINA”.
	www.ipsnews.net /africa/sendnews.asp?idnews=28013 (826 words)

	Chile Information Project -- "Santiago Times" -- Political, Environment, Human Rights, Economic News; January 23, 1996
		Prats was commander in chief of the Chilean Army during the Allende government, 1970-1973, and was forced to resign weeks before the military coup because of political pressure from the right.
		The Prats homicide was the first in a series of three assassination plots devised by the DINA to be carried out abroad, known as Operation Condor, which has been documented by several historians and reporters.
		Argentine President Carlos Menem personally announced Arancibia's arrest, saying, "This is gratifying because it is a success for the judicial branch." In Chile Belisario Velasco, undersecretary of the interior, said the government was studying the possibility of joining the prosecution and becoming a party in the case.
	ssdc.ucsd.edu /news/chip/h96/chip.19960123.html (2878 words)

	BBC News \| AMERICAS \| Chilean agent convicted over Prats' killing
		Carlos Prats and his wife, Sofia Cuthbert, died in a car bomb explosion.
		Carlos Prats was the commander of the Chilean army during the socialist government of President Salvador Allende.
		At the time of his murder in September 1974, General Prats was emerging as an important voice calling for a swift return to democratic rule in Chile.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/americas/1033329.stm (372 words)

	Memoria y Justicia - In Focus- The Carlos Prats Case (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		General Carlos Prats fled Chile September 15 1973, just a few days after the coup, to save his life from the menace of military officials who had seized power.
		In the Prats case the crimes were declared not subject to statutes of limitation due to their nature as crimes against humanity, in recognition of the preeminence of international treaties over national law.
		The daughters of the assassinated former General Carlos Prats and Sofia Cuthbert filed a criminal complaint against the DINA hierarchy in order to become parties of the case that will be heard for the first time in Chile.
	www.memoriayjusticia.cl /english/en_focus-carlosprats.htm (2415 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > World -- Appeals court votes to strip former Chilean dictator Pinochet of immunity in ...
		Prats, a former chief of the Chilean army, had opposed the 1973 coup that put fellow general Pinochet in power, and was among the first of an estimated several thousand people killed during Pinochet's rule.
		Prats' three daughters said Thursday they hope the high court upholds the appeals court ruling and allows the prosecution to go forward, according to their lawyer, Pamela Pereira.
		Prats was head of Chile's army during the final months of leftist Salvador Allende's presidency, which ended in the September 1973 coup.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/world/20041202-1225-chile-pinochet.html (514 words)

	Róbinson Rojas: The murder of Allende and the end of the Chilean way to socialism.- The Róbinson Rojas Archive.- ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Carlos Prats was the spokesman for the "constitutionalists", whose general line was: "We will support Allende so that Allende will support us".
		Carlos Prats's thesis was: "We should work to form an Allende-armed forces government" based on the following division of labour: Allende would control the masses of workers, and the armed forces would control the country so that it would prosper.
		Carlos Prats's thesis, until October 1972, or more certainly until March 1973, had the widest acceptance among the senior, middle-level, and junior officers in the Army and among the middle-level and junior officers in the Air Force and the Navy.
	www.rrojasdatabank.org /murder27.htm (540 words)

	NotiSur July 7, 2000
		In another recent case reported by the daily O Globo, Lilian Celiberti, an Italian-Uruguayan citizen, testified in a case in a Rome court involving the death of Italian citizens who were detained in Brazil in 1978 and taken to Uruguay as part of Operation Condor.
		Pedro Espinoza, now serving sentences for the assassination of Letelier, are also implicated in the Prats' case, as are retired Chilean generals Raul Iturriaga Neumann, Jose Zara Holger, and Armando Callejas, former civilian DINA agent Jorge Iturriaga Neumann, writer Mariana Callejas, and US citizen Michael Townley, who confessed to placing the bomb.
		Contreras said Townley's statements about the Letelier and Prats murders were lies designed to "cover up his own crimes and protect the intellectual authors" of the murders.
	www.ladb.unm.edu /notisur/sample-feature.php3 (2532 words)

	The Other September... :: Dissent Winter 2004 Issue
		General Carlos Prats was the commander-in-chief of the Chilean army.
		A confidant of Prats, he had held the post of acting army commander on several occasions and had demonstrated a "legalist" approach to the turmoil that marked the Chilean political process.
		Prats had resigned after a group of generals' wives had taken to the streets to protest against him.
	www.dissentmagazine.org /article/?article=411 (3022 words)

	Coastal Post Online
		Prats had been the former commander in chief of the Chilean Armed Forces before the CIA sponsored coup in 1973 destroyed the democratically elected government of Chile.
		He described how he had stalked Prats and was, at one point, ready to shoot him in a park near his home-but there were too many people around.
		Townley said that he had not planned to kill Prats' wife but she happened to be in the car the next day when the general drove off.
	www.coastalpost.com /01/6/02.htm (2046 words)

	Guardian \| Coup ghosts wait for Pinochet
		Sofía's father, General Carlos Prats, was commander-in-chief of the Chilean armed forces and Defence Minister under the late President Salvador Allende.
		When rumours of a planned military coup surfaced in 1973, Prats asked his fellow generals for their public support and, when that was not forthcoming, he resigned.
		While the murder of Carlos Prats had international reverberations, it was eclipsed two years later by another car bomb killing by Dina, this time in Washington.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,,3953840-103596,00.html (1093 words)

	Buenos Aires Herald
		The car bomb murder of Gen. Carlos Prats, Pinochet’s predecessor as army chief, and his wife, Sofia Cuthbert, in Buenos Aires was the first assassination allegedly carried out by the dictatorship outside Chilean borders.
		Prats had fled to Argentina shortly after Pinochet’s bloody 1973 coup, fearing his ties to ousted socialist President Salvador Allende made him a target of persecution.
		Prats had been commander of the Chilean army until Pinochet was appointed Aug. 23, 1973 by Salvador Allende, the Marxist president he toppled 19 days later in a bloody coup.
	www.buenosairesherald.com /the_world/note.jsp?idContent=6735 (516 words)

	Chile Information Project -- "Santiago Times" -- Political, Environment, Human Rights, Economic News; April 24, 1996
		Sofia Prats is seeking access to files the FBI has in its possession regarding 600 hours of testimony given by Townley in connection with the Letelier case.
		Prats is also wanting to compel former army captain Fernandez Larios, incarcerated in a US prison, to testify in the case of her parents' deaths.
		Interior Minister Carlos Figueroa said the socialist alliance with the PC in the CUT is "a bad sign" for the Concertacion, but said the conflict the CUT elections has stirred up in the alliance will not cause the exit of a "socialist minister" from the government.
	ssdc.ucsd.edu /news/chip/h96/chip.19960424.html (2911 words)

	BBC News \| AMERICAS \| Pinochet denied immunity in bomb case
		General Prats and his wife were killed in a car bomb explosion in Buenos Aires in September 1974.
		Carlos Prats and his wife, Sofia Cuthbert, had fled to Argentina after General Pinochet took power in a military coup in 1973.
		Carlos Prats was the commander of the Chilean army under the socialist government of President Salvador Allende which was ousted in the coup.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/americas/1047673.stm (358 words)

	CNN.com - Argentina wants to try Pinochet for killing general in Buenos Aires - October 27, 2000
		Former Chilean army chief Prats -- who opposed Pinochet's coup overthrowing President Salvador Allende in 1973 -- and his wife, Sofia Cuthbert, were killed by a car bomb in the quiet Buenos Aires neighborhood of Palermo in September 1974.
		Alleged former DINA (National Intelligence Directorate) agent Arancibia Clavel was detained in 1996 in the killing of Prats and his wife and is on trial in Buenos Aires.
		Prats' daughters said early in October they would seek to put Pinochet on trial in Argentina.
	archives.cnn.com /2000/WORLD/americas/10/27/pinochet.argentina.reut (661 words)

	Chile lifts Pinochet's immunity in slaying of General Prats (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The court's decision -- reached with a 14 to nine majority -- could pave the way for Pinochet to be tried in the slaying of Prats and his wife, Sofia Cuthbert, in a car bomb blast on September 30, 1974.
		Prats served as army commander, vice president and interior minister under Socialist president Salvador Allende, who died in the coup that brought Pinochet to power on September 11, 1973.
		Chilean law stipulates that requests for immunity to be lifted must be handled on a case-by-case basis, rather than in blanket form.
	www.quepasa.com /content/?c=106&id=297773 (207 words)

	Notorious Chilean School of the Americas Graduates
		Assassination of former defense minister Prats and his wife, 1974: Fernandez Larios was one of two DINA agents charged with assassinating General Carlos Prats González, who was defense minister under the regime Augusto Pinochet overthrew.
		Prats and his wife were killed by a car bomb in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
		Kidnapping, disappearance, 1974: Implicated in the 1974 kidnapping and disappearance of brothers Juan Carlos and Jorge Elias Andrónico Antequera, Lauriani's was one of the few cases of military crimes to be tried after Pinochet's brutal dictatorship.
	www.derechos.org /soa/chile-not.html (956 words)

	Second coup attempt: El Tanquetazo
		He called upon the workers of Santiago to occupy the factories "and be ready in case it is necessary to fight alongside the soldiers of Chile."(7) Now, as Prats drove his car toward La Moneda, he was thinking that it would be logical to suppose that the Second Armored Battalion was not acting alone.
		Prats ordered him to come down, identify himself, obey his orders, and surrender to the soldiers of the Junior Officers' School.(12) According to the account of a journalist watching the events nearby, "the soldier came down, stood at attention before the general, and saluted.
		As this convoy fled south down Teatinos Street, Prats was able to see Roberto Souper, "who looked disoriented and lost." Immediately thereafter, Prats entered the palace and ordered that the buildings nearby be searched.
	www.geocities.com /educhile_1970s/tanquetazo.html (1331 words)

	Center for Latin American Studies, UC Berkeley
		One particularly blatant assassination was that of General Carlos Prats and his wife, killed by a massive car bomb in Buenos Aires in September 1974.
		Prats, Pinochet’s predecessor as army commander, had publicly favored a resumption of democracy and was understandably viewed as a threat to Pinochet’s status.
		Carlos Castresana Fernández is currently a visiting professor of law at the University of San Francisco.
	socrates.berkeley.edu:7001 /Events/spring2005/01-27-05-castresana (1308 words)

	TNI Dossier Orlando Letelier
		For two decades, Sofia and Maria Angelica Prats have tried to determine who was responsible for the bombing in 1974 that killed their father, Gen. Carlos Prats Gonzalez, a former Chilean army commander who opposed the military coup led by Gen. Augusto Pinochet.
		Prats, who served as army commander under Allende, resigned on Aug. 23, 1973, rather than join the military faction that wanted to overthrow the government.
		Political analysts said the Prats case is far more serious for the Chilean military than the Letelier case because investigators have determined that by the time of the Letelier assassination in 1976, the Chilean secret police had become a loose cannon basically beyond the control of Pinochet.
	www.xs4all.nl /~tni/letelier-docs/160296.htm (988 words)

	Carlos Prats - Voyager, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		General Carlos Prats González (1915 - 1974), was a Chilean political figure, and General Augusto Pinochet's predecessor as Commander-in-Chief of the Chilean Army.
		The direction of DINA, including chief Manuel Contreras, ex-chief of operation and retired general Raul Itturiaga Neuman, his brother Roger Itturiaga, and ex-brigadeers Pedro Espinoza Bravo and Jose Zara, are accused in Chile of this assassination.
		In Argentina, DINA's civil agent Enrique Arancibia Clavel was condemned a life-sentence in General Prat's case.
	www.voyager.in /Carlos_Prats (513 words)

	Chile: Reports: Truth Commissions: Library & Links: U.S. Institute of Peace
		When Carlos Montes was arrested, the Interior Ministry told the court that he was a high level MAPU leader, and that "after the arrest of one of its most important members, Juan Maino," Montes had gone underground to avoid being arrested.
		The evidence gathered enables the Commission to come to the conviction that Carlos Zelaya was arrested by government agents, and that he disappeared as a result of their actions in violation of his human rights.
		This statement by Carlos Prats, and others that will be quoted in this section of the report, as well as the whole context, are closely connected to certain other suggestive aspects or well-founded presumptions that this Commission took into account in arriving at its conviction.
	www.usip.org /library/tc/doc/reports/chile/chile_1993_pt3_ch2_a2_e.html (10191 words)

	Memoria y Justicia - Human Rights Today-Disappearing Husband (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Thirty-one years have passed since General Carlos Prats was assassinated together with his wife Sofia Cuthbert in the Palermo sector of Buenos Aires.
		He ordered that the passport be denied to keep General Prats in Argentina and within reach of the assassins.
		The ruling shields the former dictator from prosecution and definitively dismissed from the proceedings related to the homicide of General Prats and his wife Sofia Cuthbert.
	www.memoriayjusticia.cl /english/en_rights-prats.htm (2299 words)

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