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	Augusto Pinochet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Pinochet transferred power to Patricio Aylwin, the new democratically elected president, in 1990; however, he retained his post as commander-in-chief of the army until 1998, when he assumed a seat in the Chilean Senate, which was intended to be his for the duration of his life, according to the constitutional amendments of 1980.
		Pinochet was born in Valparaíso on November 25, 1915, the son of Augusto Pinochet Vera (descendant of Breton immigrants who arrived in Chile during the 18th century) and Avelina Ugarte Martínez.
		In his memoirs, Pinochet affirms that he was the leading plotter of the coup, and used his position as Commander of the Army to coordinate a far-reaching scheme with the other two branches of the military and the national police.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Augusto_Pinochet (5011 words)

	Augusto Pinochet killer file
		Pinochet says he is writing an autobiography titled 'Caminos Recorridos' (The Roads I Have Travelled) and reveals that he has drafted a letter to be released after his death which will describe "the truth" of what happened.
		On 10 August, Pinochet's wife, Lucía Hiriart de Pinochet, and younger son, Marco Antonio Pinochet, are arrested and charged as accomplices in the tax evasion case being pursued by Judge Munoz.
		On 23 January Pinochet's wife, four of his children, the wife of his younger son, one of his lawyers and one of his secretaries are all charged with tax evasion related to the former dictator's overseas bank accounts.
	www.moreorless.au.com /killers/pinochet.html (7423 words)

	The Arrest of General Augusto Pinochet
		The 83 year-old Pinochet was arrested on October 16th of 1998 to stand trial for "crimes against humanity" in Spain.
		Pinochet destroyed all opposition to his authority and coordinated the mass "disappearance" of men, women and children.
		Pinochet and his supporters have claimed that the General has immunity from prosecution as a former head of state.
	www.lasalle.edu /students/pubs/laspam/Pinochet.html (654 words)

	Augusto Pinochet
		In the early 1950s, Pinochet was involved in Chile's arrests and imprisonment of communists, suspected communists, and union leaders.
		Pinochet gave his country a new Constitution in 1980 which, among other things, gave him the absolute power to arrest, imprison, or exile any citizen for any reason with no recourse, solely on his say-so.
		Pinochet stepped down as President in 1990, but under the terms of the Constitution he'd written, he remained commander of the Army until 1998.
	www.nndb.com /people/393/000022327 (497 words)

	PATRIOT GENERAL AUGUSTO PINOCHET (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		General Agusto Pinochet (Commander of the Armed Forces) and the members of the Junta had been planning to overthrow the Marxist regime of Salvador Allende since late 1972, when Allende made it easier by appointing General Prats to a Cabinet post and by appointing General Agusto Pinochet to Commander of the Armed Forces.
		Pinochet was a pioneer in free-market reforms, applying these measures, at a time when populist and leftist economic policies were widespread.
		Pinochet, in 1980, made a referendum if the Chilean people wanted a new constitution; it was done in such a fair and clean way that even the Communist observers could not object (the 1980 constitution was voted with a big majority).
	www.geocities.com /CapitolHill/Congress/1770/Pinochet.html (1034 words)

	GENERAL PINOCHET'S REPRIEVE
		To many in Chile, however, the general was and is a hero who saved the country from a communist takeover, and eventually prepared it for the democracy and free market economy it now enjoys.
		Pinochet never denied the charges against him, but claimed that since the acts were committed while he was head of state, he was immune from prosecution.
		VOICE: If [General] Pinochet is too ill to stand trial now, let him remain in the comfortable detention of the mansion where he resides until such time as he is able to answer for his crimes.
	www.globalsecurity.org /intell/library/news/2000/01/000114-chile1.htm (1007 words)

	Remember-Chile: General Pinochet and human rights abuses - Pinochet for Beginners
		Previously, they had argued that Pinochet did not have state immunity because crimes against humanity could not be regarded as the actions of a head of state; only actions of the state brought immunity with them.
		As well as Pinochet's lawyers, on 22nd October, appealing against the Bow Street magistrate's decision (in the form of an application for a writ of habeas corpus), on 5th November Jack Straw, under pressure to consider releasing Pinochet on health grounds, asked him to submit to independent medical tests.
		Pinochet's military junta had justified its intervention as a response to a breakdown in law and order under the government of President Salvador Allende.
	www.remember-chile.org.uk /beginners/index.htm (2303 words)

	Chile's General Pinochet Arrested in London
		GENERAL PINOCHET'S prolonged fight to return to Chile is not over yet, despite British Home Secretary Jack Straw's attempts to wash his hands of the alleged serial torturer.
		Pinochet, who recently entertained Margaret Thatcher at the general's Wentworth house, is now more confident than ever that his lawyer's campaign to return him to Chile without facing trial in Spain for torture and murder will be successful.
		Pinochet and his legal team have stepped up their lobbying of the authorities concerned as experts predict he may face a fresh extradition ruling.
	www.londonnet.co.uk /ln/talk/news/pinochet.html (5198 words)

	BBC ON THIS DAY \| 2 \| 2000: Pinochet escapes torture trial charges
		After 16 months of legal wrangling, General Pinochet was told earlier today by UK Home Secretary Jack Straw that he was free to leave.
		General Pinochet was arrested in London in October 1998 at the request of Spanish judge Baltasar Garzon who is seeking to put him on trial for human rights abuses during his 17-year rule in Chile.
		Speaking to MPs in the House of Commons shortly after General Pinochet's departure Mr Straw said he was aware the general was now unlikely to stand trial.
	news.bbc.co.uk /onthisday/hi/dates/stories/march/2/newsid_2771000/2771229.stm (448 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Special reports \| Special report: Augusto Pinochet
		On October 16 1998 Augusto Pinochet was arrested at a London hospital.
		May 20 2005: General Augusto Pinochet, the former Chilean dictator accused of hundreds of human rights abuses, was rushed to hospital yesterday after suffering a stroke, days ahead of the latest ruling in a fraud case against him.
		October 18 1998: General Augusto Pinochet, the former Chilean dictator who presided over a 17-year reign of terror and ordered foreign assassinations, was arrested at a London hospital on Friday night by police acting on a request from Spain.
	www.guardian.co.uk /pinochet/0,11993,179253,00.html (715 words)

	CNN Transcript - CNN Insight: The Case of General Augusto Pinochet - January 13, 2000
		Pinochet said the only reason that he should be relieved of the responsibility of appearing before a court would be if he were mentally unfit.
		CLANCY (voice-over): When the previous ruling was issued that Britain would allow the extradition of General Pinochet, it was hailed by some as a warning -- a warning to other current or former tough rulers that they are accountable for their actions.
		Pinochet may soon be able to leave Britain, relatives of victims are trying a variety of methods to keep the General in Europe.
	edition.cnn.com /TRANSCRIPTS/0001/13/i_ins.00.html (3201 words)

	Bush v. Gore and the CAse of General Pinochet
		Augusto Pinochet was made commander-in-chief of the Chilean Army in June 1973 by President Allende, who was also the head of the Chilean Communist Party.
		During General Pinochet's seventeen years in power, more than three thousand supporters of the Allende regime were killed, thousands tortured, and many thousands more forced into exile.
		General Pinochet visited Britain several times before 1998, and every time human rights organizations, such as Amnesty International (AI), urged the authorities in London to arrest him.
	www.oycf.org /Perspectives/9_123100/bush_v2.htm (1008 words)

	Augusto Pinochet and the Conservative Threat to America
		Pinochet’s “war on terrorism” entailed all the features of the Bush administration’s “war on terrorism” torture, murder, sex abuse, denial of civil liberties, indefinite detentions, “renditions,” and disappearances of suspected terrorists.
		It was in fact, Pinochet’s “the world is the battleground” mindset that motivated him to send DINA agents to Washington, D.C., to execute former Allende cabinet member Orlando Letelier on the streets of Washington, D.C., in 1976.
		In Pinochet’s mind — indeed, in the minds of many of his conservative supporters — Letelier was a “terrorist” because he was doing everything he could to bring down the Pinochet regime, especially by lobbying U.S. congressmen to cut off U.S. foreign aid to the Pinochet regime.
	www.fff.org /comment/com0501d.asp (2772 words)

	human rights watch \| the pinochet prosecution: the end of impunity?
		The criminal prosecution is for the kidnapping in October 1973 of nineteen supporters and officials of the government of President Salvador Allende, who died in a military coup led by General Pinochet on September 11, 1973.
		Judge Juan Guzman indicted Pinochet on a charge of kidnapping, asking that he be held under house arrest and ordering him to face trial in connection with the "disappearances" of prisoners in the first months of his seventeen-year dictatorship.
		The crimes for which Pinochet is closest to indictment include his command responsibility for a military task force, popularly known as the "Caravan of Death," which removed scores of prisoners from jail and executed them one month after the 1973 military coup.
	www.hrw.org /campaigns/chile98 (1131 words)

	General Augusto Pinochet - Timeline Index
		Augusto Pinochet was a Chilean general who in 1973 staged a coup d'etat with the help of the CIA.
		Pinochet handed a list of names to one of his generals and gave orders to have them killed.
		The general assembled a death squad, jumped into a helicopter, and visited a few towns.
	www.timelineindex.com /content/view/1002 (205 words)

	The Old Fight of New Labour
		The decision not to prosecute Pinochet and other perpetrators of torture and murder were definitely decisions where political expediency over-ruled justice, but Chile was not the only country that made this sort of decision.
		This was because one of the judges tasked by Tony Blair’s former employer to judge whether the General had been wrongly arrested was in fact married to an employee of Amnesty International, one of the prime movers in the persecution of General Pinochet.
		Leaving aside the fact that the autocratic Pinochet was less evil than the totalitarian Allende (a “hero” for Mr.
	www.antiwar.com /orig/goldstein1.html (1780 words)

	The General Augusto Pinochet Award Page
		Pinochet and the Chilean generals then waged a sustained "dirty war" against the left, in which thousands of people were "disappeared" by the security forces.
		Pinochet and the generals used this brutal and direct political repression to clear the way for neoliberal economic policies, instituted with the aid of "the Chicago Boys" - "free market" economists trained at the University of Chicago.
		This apparently rules out Pinochet's prosecution on the great bulk of the charges prepared by Spanish magistrates, which pertain to acts committed during the 15 years of brutal dictatorship preceding 1988 (Pinochet stepped down in 1990, after 17 years in power).
	www.maxwell.syr.edu /maxpages/faculty/merupert/Politics/pinochet.htm (781 words)

	CNN.com - Pinochet: U.S. urged to charge bank - Sep 16, 2004
		It added that the efforts to conceal Pinochet's fortune occurred in the United States, Britain, Spain, the Bahamas, and elsewhere, through accounts in the name of Pinochet and his family members, or through off-shore shell companies created to hide the money.
		Pinochet seized power in Chile in 1973 in a coup and ruled until 1990.
		After a lengthy legal battle, Britain permitted Pinochet to return to Chile in 2000, rather than face extradition to Spain, on the grounds that he was unfit to stand trial.
	www.cnn.com /2004/WORLD/europe/09/16/spain.riggs (833 words)

	On the Damning Evidence Against Augusto Pinochet
		You may remember Margaret Thatcher saying that Pinochet's arrest in this country was nothing more than "gesture politics"; I remember Alan Bennett's rejoinder, which was to say that Thatcher herself was involved in gesture politics when she stood up for him, "the gesture in question being two fingers to humanity".
		It is perhaps a desire to pretend that this was not an act of the basest treachery that has led to Pinochet's innocent demeanour ever since, the impression you get that he sincerely believes he never did anything wrong.
		A judge today indicted Chile's former leader General Augusto Pinochet for the kidnapping of nine dissidents and the killing of one of them during his 1973-90 military regime, and placed the former dictator under house arrest.
	www.serendipity.li /jsmill/pinoch.html (954 words)

	Pinochet Watch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Pinochet's legal defense team disputes his number, maintaining that the General only has $11 million dollars and the origin of those funds is clear and legitimate: $1.7 million from personal savings, $1.8 million from donations, $5 million from interest, dividends and capital earnings from 1965-2004 and $2.5 million from presidential spending reserves.
		Pinochet's wife Lucía Hiriart has also been named in the case brought by the Chilean Revenue Service for tax evasion; her name appears on various checks sent to Pinochet by Riggs from 2000-2002 and she has been listed as the co-signer on many Riggs accounts and off-shore shell companies.
		Pinochet and the remaining accused have been charged with illegal confinement accompanied by or followed by acts of torture, or complicity in acts of torture, which are crimes against humanity and therefore not subject to a statute of limitations or amnesty laws.
	www.tni.org /pin-watch/watch60.htm (5332 words)

	Amnesty International - Pinochet page
		The Case of General Pinochet: Universal jurisdiction and the absence of immunity for crimes against humanity
		In the course of this morning's session the UK Divisional Court decided to consider leave to seek judicial review as having been granted to the parties seeking review and that the hearing should now continue on the merits of the case.
		The purpose of today's hearing is to ensure that Augusto Pinochet's fitness to stand trial is decided fairly and according to law.
	www.amnesty.org /ailib/intcam/pinochet (575 words)

	Chile: Trial Against Pinochet in Spain
		Given the practical impossibility of having Pinochet tried in Chile for the crimes against humanity he has committed, alternatives were sought in other countries.
		The Spanish courts were the first to accept their legal and moral obligations under international law and initiate investigations aobut the responsability of Pinochet and other Chilean and Argentinian military for crimes against humanity.
		Special report on the preparation and development of General Augusto Pinochet's detention and Spanish judges' ruling recognizing the principle of universal criminal jurisdiction for domestic courts.
	www.derechos.org /nizkor/chile/juicio/eng.html (791 words)

	Online NewsHour: Pinochet Arrested -- October 19, 1998
		General Augusto Pinochet, the former Chilean dictator, was arrested in London last weekend after Spain requested his extradition.
		As the left says, bravo, we're happy with the Spanish judge's action and we hope Pinochet will be tried abroad because he wasn't able to be tried here, and the right says, oh my gosh, you can't do that, he saved Chile from Communism and, therefore, we really must stand by him.
		Well, Spain says it has a right to charge Pinochet for the murder of these Spanish nationals because it has a right to protect its own citizens, the right that we in the U.S. claim for our own citizens as well from time to time.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/latin_america/july-dec98/pinochet_10-19.html (1583 words)

	Pinochet, General Augusto (Harpers.org)
		General Augusto Pinochet of Chile was released on bail pending his trial for accessory to murder and kidnapping.
		General Augusto Pinochet was stripped of his legal immunity by Chile's supreme court.
		Augusto Pinochet was indicted and placed under house arrest by a Chilean court for the abduction of nine dissidents and the murder of one of them during his dictatorship.
	www.harpers.org /Pinochet.html (512 words)

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