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Augusto Pinochet - Open Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) With rising domestic strife in Chile, Pinochet was appointed Army Commander in Chief of the Army on 23 August 1973 by the elected socialist president, Dr. Salvador Allende. Since Pinochet was the chief of the oldest branch of the military forces (the Army), he was made the head of the victorious junta's governing council—this position was originally to be rotated among the four branches, but was later made permanent. 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 that was coordinated with the other three branches of the military. open-encyclopedia.com /Augusto_Pinochet   (3144 words)

Augusto Pinochet -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) Pinochet was born in Valparaíso on November 25, 1915, the son of Augusto Pinochet Vera and Avelina Ugarte Martínez. Since Pinochet was the chief of the oldest branch of the military forces (the Army), he was made the head of the victorious (A group of military officers who rule a country after seizing power) junta — this position was originally to be rotated among the four branches, but was later made permanent. In his (An essay on a scientific or scholarly topic) 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. www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/a/au/augusto_pinochet.htm   (3951 words)

Augusto Pinochet killer file In January Pinochet is given command of an army division and appointed commander-general of the Santiago garrison. 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. www.moreorless.au.com /killers/pinochet.html   (6313 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   (496 words)

Pinochet Ugarte, Augusto. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 Pinochet remained as commander of the army until 1998, when he was made senator for life, a title that brought with it lifelong immunity from criminal prosecution. On a trip to London that year, he was arrested at the request of the Spanish government on charges including terrorism and murder, stemming from his former regime, and held for possible extradition to Spain. In 2000 he was stripped of his immunity from prosecution, and he was later charged with involvement in kidnappings and murders that occurred after the coup. www.bartleby.com /65/pi/Pinochet.html   (299 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   (2303 words)

Chile's General Pinochet Arrested in London Former torture victims of Pinochet's murderous 1970s/80s regime and leftists of the world are determined their enemy should face justice in Spain, while the pro-Pinochet cabal led over here by former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, reckon their pal's record of mass execution and vicious torture was a necessary counter to communist influence. 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)

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)

CBC News - No immediate decision on Pinochet   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) The groups are disputing a report which says Pinochet is unfit to stand trial for human rights abuses during 17-year reign in Chile. Pinochet has been under house arrest in London since October 1998 after a Spanish judge requested he be sent to Spain to face torture, murder and kidnapping charges related to his years in power. The announcement was greeted with cheers by Pinochet's supporters in Chile and disbelief by his opponents who accused Britain of letting him escape justice. cbc.ca /cgi-bin/templates/view.cgi?/news/2000/01/18/pinochet000118   (455 words)

Pinochet - Criminal Procedures against Argentinian and Chilean Military in Spain Pinochet finally stepped down in 1990, however, under military pressure the government issued a new constitution giving Pinochet the status of senator-for-life. In October 1998, upon hearing that Pinochet was present in England, Izquierda Unida (United Left, one of the parties exercising the popular action) asked the court to interrogate General Augusto Pinochet about his role in Operation Condor. He requested extradition of General Pinochet to Spain based on the Law of Criminal Procedure, the 1957 European Convention on Extradition, the UK-Spain Extradition Treaty and the Principles of international co-operation in the detection, arrest, extradition and punishment of persons guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity. www.derechos.net /marga/papers/spain.html   (7065 words)

Townhall.com :: Columns :: The left never sleeps by Emmett Tyrrell   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) The 89-year-old man is, of course, Gen. Augusto Pinochet, and his human rights abuses are not even reported in the newspapers as "alleged" human rights abuses. Pinochet's political assassinations were not as numerous as those practiced by Soviet satellite countries. Yet it is not the opponents of Pinochet who have made great strides in the elevation of human rights worldwide. www.townhall.com /columnists/emmetttyrrell/et20041216.shtml   (774 words)

The Pinochet Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) British Secretary of State Jack Straw released Pinochet on March 2, due to the general's enfeebled condition. Carlos Fuentes' powerful testimony, "A victim of Pinochet." The Mexican writer, in a Jan. 26 essay, tells what happened to his friend Orlando Letelier, and indicts the Nixon administration. "Pinochet and the writers": The general and his regime as reflected in Chilean literature and nonfiction. www.publica.com /pinochet.html   (182 words)

Chile and the End of Pinochet As former dictator Augusto Pinochet was preparing to take pretrial mental exams, and as the Chilean military was releasing a report acknowledging that during the Pinochet dictatorship the bodies of scores of political opponents and leftists had been thrown into the ocean, perhaps the satirical Santiago tabloid The Clinic put the situation most pungently. Pinochet's medical examiners eventually found him to be suffering "light to moderate vascular dementia"--clinical language for a form of arteriosclerosis. Guzmán quizzed Pinochet on some fifteen questions relating to accusations that the former dictator was the "intellectual author" of Chile's most macabre massacre and the disappearance of seventy-five civilians. www.thenation.com /doc/20010226/cooper   (989 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 Pinochet, a graduate of the military academy in Santiago (1936), was a career Pinochet assumed sole power, relegating the rest of the junta to an advisory Pinochet was determined to extirpate leftism in Chile and to reassert the primacy of free market www.cbv.ns.ca /dictator/Pinochet.html   (410 words)

BBC News | World | Judges re-run Pinochet hearing Lawyers for the former Chilean dictator General Augusto Pinochet are set to make an unprecedented second appearance before the UK's highest court in a renewed attempt to block his extradition to Spain. She said if anything, it was the "systematic" violation of human rights during the former dictator's 17-year rule that had impinged the sovereignty of all Chilean citizens. While Chile's legal team returned to London to make their case, General Pinochet was reported in the Sunday Telegraph newspaper as saying that he was resigned to dying in the UK as the extradition battle drags on. news.bbc.co.uk /hi/english/world/newsid_257000/257228.stm   (574 words)

Pinochet Ugarte, Augusto on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) Pinochet's Dark Days: As Chilean courts come closer to prosecuting him for human-rights abuses, the former dictator retreats into his home and family.(Latin America)(Augusto Pinochet Ugarte)(Statistical Data Included) Banishing The Myths The stereotypes that Pinochet generated after his coup still haunt the political future of Latin America.(Augusto Pinochet, ex dictador de Chile) (TA: Augusto Pinochet, Chile's former dictator) Fall of the patriarch: Pinochet loses at the polls, but democracy is not the victor yet. www.encyclopedia.com /html/P/Pinochet.asp   (913 words)

BBC News | UK | Pinochet flies out of Britain Former Chilean dictator General Augusto Pinochet is heading home after being told by UK Home Secretary Jack Straw that he will not be extradited on torture charges. Amnesty International, which has made legal challenges before, said its aim was to achieve justice for the victims, not to prevent Pinochet leaving the UK at all costs. 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. news.bbc.co.uk /hi/english/uk/newsid_663000/663886.stm   (530 words)

Equipo Nizkor: Pinochet Pinochet exportó la represión a otros países a través de la "Operación Condor" - un plan de cooperación entre agencias de inteligencia de diversas dictaduras militares. Este proceso llevó a la detención de Pinochet en Londres, y luego de más de un año de maniobras jurídicas y políticas, a su devolución a Chile, por considerarle demasiado senil para poder someterlo a un juicio. Tercer Informe sobre la salud mental de Pinochet: la manipulación de la medicina y la justicia para sobreseer a un responsable de crímenes. www.derechos.org /nizkor/chile/juicio   (2780 words)

New Revelations on General Pinochet and the United States The search for the truth is important not only for the historic case against General Pinochet, but for Americans too who wish to know what role their government may have played in a violent period of history and how we may avoid playing such a role in the future. Letelier was an opponent of the Pinochet regime. According to Chilean government reports in 1991 and 1996, a total of 2,095 extrajudicial executions and death under torture took place during the military regime, and 1,102 people disappeared at the hands of government forces and are presumed dead. www.fas.org /sgp/news/1999/07/miller.html   (1740 words)

The Secret Pinochet Portfolio But the OCC, which is implicated in the Pinochet financial scandal for its failure to monitor his illicit transactions at Riggs, has refused to release any of the documentation, even though the Senate Subcommittee has already published hundreds of pages of banking records related to Pinochet's accounts. The new evidence promises to further erode Gen. Pinochet's legal and political standing in Chile where the former dictator faces charges of corruption and tax evasion, as well as homicide and terrorism. Pinochet was not the only Chilean general to receive such sweet, flowery letters. www.gwu.edu /~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB149   (1320 words)

Augusto Pinochet Links Pinochet Latest News and Menu: latest on the arrest of the Chilean strong man Pinochet Archive News: previous news relating to the General Pinochet is believed to have allowed the British to use parts of southern Chile as a jumping off point for attacks on Argentine air bases during the Falklands War. www.londonnet.co.uk /ln/talk/news/pinochet_links.html   (545 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)

Remember-Chile: General Pinochet and human rights abuses Those of us with direct experiences of Pinochet's brutal dictatorship have had painful memories brought more rawly to the surface. And it is hoped that it may be a contribution towards open, informed and balanced discourse - the precondition for a healthy society. There are those in this country who have actively supported Pinochet and see it as wrong to have arrested the man at all. www.remember-chile.org.uk   (540 words)

pinochet Letter to send to the British secretary of State Jack Straw to demand the extradition of Pinochet to Spain Spanish request for Pinochet's extradition will now be considered by the courts 13th October, 1998: Spanish petition for interrogation of Augusto Pinochet in Britain. www.oikos.org /ecology/pinochet.htm   (288 words)

AllRefer.com - Augusto Pinochet Ugarte (Chilean History, Biography) - Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) Augusto Pinochet Ugarte[ougOOs´tO pEnOchA´ OOgAr´tA] Pronunciation Key, 1915–;, president and dictator of Chile (1973–90). An army general who served as chief of staff (1972–73) and commander of the army (1973), he led the coup that overthrew socialist president Salvador Allende (Sept., 1973). More articles from AllRefer Reference on Augusto Pinochet Ugarte reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/P/Pinochet.html   (363 words)

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