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Voice of America
February 7, 2018
"Yes, I think [he really would retire]," she said. "It's just hard to convince him that there's an exit and that he can trust those people who guarantee that, and that nothing like what happened to [former Chilean dictator Augusto] Pinochet or [former Libyan dictator Moammar] Gadhafi would happen to him.
WHYY
February 7, 2018
If Kim Jong-un, Augusto Pinochet, Der Fuhrer, and Joseph Stalin could flash their hardware, why not us? Who says we're supposed to be any better? You got a problem with that? In fact, we've exclusively obtained the official list of parade tips for the multitudes who are very strongly encouraged to turn outÃÂ ...
Indiana Daily Student
February 6, 2018
Have Americans forgotten the first 9/11, September 11, 1973, when U.S.-backed forces overthrew Chile's democratically elected socialist president, Salvador Allende? To replace him, our government installed Augusto Pinochet, who would become one of the most notorious dictators of the era. As a result ofÃÂ ...
New York Magazine
February 6, 2018
(Augusto Pinochet was the Chilean general who overthrew a democratically elected socialist government and implemented free-market policies, with the advice and enthusiastic support of American conservatives.) And while Trump has proven every bit as ignorant and instinctively authoritarian as his worstÃÂ ...
New York Times
February 5, 2018
This included Chile's former dictator Augusto Pinochet. Mr. Pinochet was placed under house arrest in Britain in 1998 as part of an effort to deport him to Spain, where he had been indicted on a charge of torturing Spanish citizens. After two years of legal and political wrangling, Mr. Bell and his alliesÃÂ ...
teleSUR English
February 4, 2018
This year marks the 30th anniversary of the iconic 1988 Chilean national plebiscite that sought to end Augusto Pinochet's military dictatorship and restore a civilian government for the first time in 16 years. On February 4, Ecuadoreans will head to the polls to cast their vote in a referendum that could proveÃÂ ...
teleSUR English
February 2, 2018
While also insisting that the United States wanted peaceful "change" in the Andean country, he suggested that the sort of violence that ushered in bloody regimes like the one led by General Augusto Pinochet in Chile, was a possibility. “Whether that will be the case here or not, I do not know," TillersonÃÂ ...
Sputnik International
January 23, 2018
On September 11 1973, the democratically-elected Chilean government, led by President Salvador Allende, was overthrown in a brutal coup organized and backed by the US Central Intelligence Agency, and executed by the Chilean military. General Augusto Pinochet assumed leadership of the country,ÃÂ ...
Malaysiakini
January 22, 2018
Mahathir despite being labelled as dictator is only a pale shadow to modern dictators from Italy's Benito Mussolini, Soviet Union's Joseph Stalin, Chile's Augusto Pinochet to Iraq's Saddam Hussein. Mahathir certainly did not throw anyone into a volcano or assault the bride at a wedding. Mahathir had upsetÃÂ ...
Anadolu Agency
January 22, 2018
Another one of the big challenges that Francis faced in the southern country was the low rate of credibility engulfing the Catholic Church due to the accusations of pedophilia. Since Augusto Pinochetôs dictatorship (1973-1990), sexual abuse scandals against members of the clergy have tarnished the imageà...
SBS
January 22, 2018
... celebrating an open-air Mass on Sunday for more than a million people in the Peruvian capital, Lima. In Peru, he also spoke out against political corruption in the region and dangers to indigenous people. In Chile, he visited a women's prison and prayed with survivors of Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship.
HeraldScotland
January 20, 2018
At 11.58am, five hours after news of a military coup against the Chilean government led by Salvador Allende began, the Chilean air force's Hawker Hunter fighters join the fighting. Streaking through the Santiago sky, they open fire on the presidential palace, La Moneda, where Allende and his colleaguesÃÂ ...
HeraldScotland
January 19, 2018
At 11.58am, five hours after news of a military coup against the Chilean government led by Salvador Allende began, the Chilean air force's Hawker Hunter fighters join the fighting. Streaking through the Santiago sky, they open fire on the presidential palace, La Moneda, where Allende and his colleaguesÃÂ ...
Daily Bruin
January 19, 2018
Inna Faliks, a concert pianist and UCLA professor of piano, will perform the protest composition "The People United Will Never Be Defeated!" at the Jacaranda Concert Series on Saturday. Frederic Rzewski composed the piece in the 1970s during the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet in Chile. (Photo byÃÂ ...
The Philadelphia Tribune
January 19, 2018
Augusto Pinochet, making it a place steeped in painful history for both Mapuches and families of victims of the dictatorship. In an ominous reminder of how the centuries-long Mapuche conflict has occasionally erupted in violence, at least 10 Catholic churches, most in the Araucania region, have beenÃÂ ...
Hawaii Tribune-Herald
January 18, 2018
Augusto Pinochet's military dictatorship. Leading some 150,000 people in a moment of silent prayer, Francis said the fertile green fields and snow-capped mountains of the Mapuche heartland in Chile's southern Araucania region were both blessed by God and cursed by man, the site of “grave humanÃÂ ...
ANSA
January 18, 2018
(ANSA) - Iquique, January 18 - Pope Francis on Thursday met two victims of the 1970s repressive Chilean regime of General Augusto Pinochet, at the Nuestra Senora de Lourdes shrine at Iquique. Francis greeted Hector Marin Rosset, whose brother was abducted and killed on September 28, 1973 inÃÂ ...
Los Angeles Times
January 18, 2018
Augusto Pinochet's military dictatorship. Leading some 150,000 people in a moment of silent prayer, Francis said the fertile green fields and snow-capped mountains of the Mapuche heartland in Chile's southern Araucania region were both blessed by God and cursed by man, the site of "grave humanÃÂ ...
The Morning Journal
January 18, 2018
Augusto Pinochet. “It's for this reason that the pope, from Temuco, encourages the Mapuches to conserve with healthy pride the culture of its people,” John Paul said, adding that included “the traditions and customs, the language and its own values. In recent decades, the Mapuche community has madeÃÂ ...
Miami Herald
January 18, 2018
The Dominican Republic's former Intelligence Military Service — SIM — under dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, assassinated political opponents on and off Dominican soil; it tortured, kidnapped, threatened and incarcerated those not aligned with Trujillo's directives. Under Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship inÃÂ ...
The Courier
January 18, 2018
Augusto Pinochet's military dictatorship. Leading some 150,000 people in a moment of silent prayer, Francis said the fertile green fields and snow-capped mountains of the Mapuche heartland were blessed by God and cursed by man as the site of “grave human rights violations” during the 1973-1990ÃÂ ...
Seattle Times
January 18, 2018
ALTERNATIVE CROP TO ALT114 – A child reaches out to embrace Pope Francis in the offertory of a Mass at the Maquehue Air Base, in Temuco, Chile, Wednesday, Jan. 17, 2018. Francis is paying homage to Chileans who... (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino) MoreÃÂ ...
Variety
January 17, 2018
Set in the context of Latin America, of Chile under the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet, and inspired by true events, a strong, eloquently told story of atrocities takes on even more value. Rather like “Historia de un clan,” it shows the hypocrisy of family which maintains the facade of normality ,but which areÃÂ ...
The Spokesman-Review
January 15, 2018
Augusto Pinochet, many Chilean bishops pushed to protect native peoples and get their cultures recognized. But today the hierarchy is much more aligned with business interests. In 1987, John Paul II gave a pointed nod to Mapuches that surely prompted cringes within Pinochet's government, which wasÃÂ ...
Daily Nation
January 14, 2018
Pope Francis leaves at the end of a mass marking the World day of Migrants and Refugees on January 14, 2018 at St Peter's basilica in the Vatican. He arrives in Santiago on Monday at the beginning of a testing weeklong visit to Chile and Peru. PHOTO | VINCENZO PINTO | AFPÃÂ ...
expressandstar.com
January 11, 2018
General Augusto Pinochet came to power during a brutal coup in 1973 (Tim Ockenden/PA). While Francis never had to deal with the abuse crisis in his native Argentina, he is intimately familiar with the region's experience with military dictatorships in the 1970s and 1980s. History's first Latin American popeÃÂ ...
World Socialist Web Site
January 10, 2018
Augusto Pinochet, have promised to fight inequality while receiving salaries from and serving the largest economic groups, with the most publicized case being that of the conglomerate SQM. Even the US State Department gave $1 million to the 1988 “No” campaign against the reelection of Pinochet, whichÃÂ ...
Inquirer.net
January 10, 2018
It's the victims who should confront Marcos or heirs and estate for the atrocities suffered under his cruel one-man rule. The Honolulu judgment was used by Chilean atrocity victims of Marcos' friend, dictator Augusto Pinochet, to win criminal and civil suits. A court in Spain ruled in the victims' favor, and BritainÃÂ ...
KOSU
January 10, 2018
In the middle is the Steve Reich-inspired “8+2+8 I,” and “Pigs in the River,” which might've been a Nick Cave leftover save for its political and historical context (elsewhere, former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet is repeatedly name-checked). The long gestation of this record (nine years after their firstÃÂ ...
The New European
January 9, 2018
The democratically elected socialist government of Salvador Allende was overthrown in a coup led by the neo-fascist head of the army, General Augusto Pinochet. The coup had – at least – the tacit support of senior US government figures. Allende died during the takeover. Thousands more people wereÃÂ ...
The Japan Times
December 27, 2017
They point to a series of scenes — Fujimori in a hospital bed, late former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet in a wheelchair, former Guatemalan president Efrain Rios Montt immune from sentencing because of alleged dementia — to underline their argument. In Fujimori's case, a presidential pardon thatÃÂ ...
Channel NewsAsia
December 31, 1999
VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis will meet victims of the dictatorship of the late Augusto Pinochet when he visits Chile next week, the Vatican said on Thursday. Spokesman Greg Burke said the pope would meet "two victims of the 1970s repression" next Thursday on his last day in Chile before leaving for PeruÃÂ ...
Deutsche Welle
December 31, 1999
A Chilean judge on Wednesday handed down sentences to three members of General Augusto Pinochet's secret police for the assassination of Miguel Enriquez, the former head of Chile's Movement of the Revolutionary Left (MIR). Enriquez was gunned down outside an MIR safe-house in a working-classÃÂ ...
Salon
November 27, 2017
... coup that murdered Chile's elected president, Salvador Allende, ushering in years of terror and torture under General Augusto Pinochet.
New York Times
November 27, 2017
... now closed, which had helped the Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet transfer huge amounts of money to offshore shell companies, provided ...
Boing Boing
November 27, 2017
In 1973, the US government helped the brutal dictator Augusto Pinochet overthrow Salvador Allende, Chile's democratically elected socialist ...
Green Left Weekly
November 24, 2017
Since Chile's return to democracy in 1990 after the fall of the Augusto Pinochet dictatorship, the South American nation has maintained a ...
Variety
November 23, 2017
... for human rights crimes under Augusto Pinochet – recently won the top Trfeu Bandeira Paulista Award for best film at Brazil's 41st Sao Paulo ...
The Liberty Conservative
November 23, 2017
... the right-wing strongmen such as Bolivia's Hugo Banzer and Chile's Augusto Pinochet that dominated the continent during the Cold War era.
Business Insider
November 23, 2017
SANTIAGO, Nov 22 (Reuters) - The world's largest copper miner, Codelco, may see a boost in investment cash regardless of who wins next ...
The Canary
November 23, 2017
The spectre of Margaret Thatcher's pet dictator Augusto Pinochet is still looming over Chile. And we saw that clearly in the country's latest ...
The Economist
November 21, 2017
He proclaims himself a fan of Augusto Pinochet, a brutal dictator of the 1970s and 1980s, promotes gun ownership and is keen to send the ...
teleSUR English
November 20, 2017
Left to right: Outgoing President Michele Bachelet (L), late dictator Gen. Augusto Pinochet (C), former president and current contender ...
Marketplace.org
November 16, 2017
... powered the Civil Rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s, songs about human rights violations under General Augusto Pinochet in Chile.
gulfnews.com
November 16, 2017
Of all the questions hanging over the dramatic, uncertain events in Zimbabwe, there is one that looms especially large. It is the same question ...
LSE Latin America and Caribbean (blog)
November 16, 2017
... Renewal (RN) preceded the 1988 referendum ended Augusto Pinochet's rule, stretching back to his 1973 coup against Salvador Allende.
U.S. News & World Report
November 16, 2017
Among her listed achievements: her ability to revoke Chile's anti-abortion law inherited from the dictatorship of the late Augusto Pinochet, ...
MDJOnline.com
November 14, 2017
Augusto Pinochet led a military coup that toppled Chile's socialist reform government. Her cousin, Salvador Allende, who had been elected ...
BBC News
November 4, 2017
... a former secret service agent sentenced to jail for human rights abuses during the military government led by General Augusto Pinochet.
BBC News
November 4, 2017
... a former secret service agent sentenced to jail for human rights abuses during the military government led by General Augusto Pinochet.
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