Open Forum
Verdugo, Patricia
We Will Continue to Disturb His Peace Since the bombing of the Moneda Palace, the 1973 event that put Augusto Pinochet in power, he has continued to be above the law. Now an Appeals Court...
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...It is true that Pinochet was not declared innocent (what a scandal that would have been...
...But the Chilean judicial system decided to wash its hands, leaving the fountain colored red for all the blood that has been spilled...
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...The lawyers for the families of the victims will appeal to the Supreme Court, but everything indicates that the judicial system is not disposed to deal with the issue...
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...But to be declared "demented" would be an intolerable affront for the General...
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...For the defenders of human rights and the families of the dictatorship's victims, the words "indignation" and "frustration" fall short of describing their feelings...
...Chile was simply not capable of confronting its tragic recent history...
...and confront their own past...
...He already lives besieged by our ghosts, jailed by the horror of having his family experience what he did to thousands of Chilean families, imprisoned in the hell that his own actions condemned him to...
...Let his punishment be disturbance, as he lives amid bodyguards who tell of his terror and his family, which argues over money and registered trademarks for exported wine...
...But there was no surprise...
...Then President Eduardo Frei did his best to prevent Pinochet's extradition to Spain and secured his release "for health reasons...
...Now it's time for them to decide...
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...He pressed for a "solution" that would show that in Chile the much-vaunted equality before the law does not exist...
...and it is a fact that we were able to count on an extraordinary judge, Juan Guzman, who proved his crimes in the case eventually dismissed by the Appeals Court...
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...There is no legal basis for the judges' decision, since the penal code only allows a dismissal for "insanity or dementia" of the accused...
...Pinochet took advantage of the moment to make fun of his benefactors by showing off his good health, getting up from his wheelchair at the airport on his return from London...
...The pinochetista tactic was carried out in the public eye, accompanied by a media campaign that consisted of generals and admirals asking that the elderly general once and for all be "left in peace...
...And then he said it could be left up to the judge, opening up the possibility that old records Readers are invited to address letters to The Editors, NACLA Report on the Americas, 475 Riverside Dr, Suite 454, New York, NY 10115...
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...Now an Appeals Court has pronounced a "temporary dismissal" of the case against him for "health reasons...
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...We will make it our duty, in the name of our dead, to disturb his peace...
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...He had originally said that Pinochet's mug shot and fingerprints should be taken in person, just as the law calls for...
...General Pinochet wants to be left in peace during his last years...
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...A version of this article appeared in Diario 16 in Spain...
...As British Home Secretary Jack Straw said, Pinochet's 503-day arrest in London "gave Chileans the time to prepare Patricia Verdugo is an award-winning journalist and author of 11 books, including Los Zarpazos del Puma (Cesoc, 1989), a book that served as evidence in the case against Pinochet...
...Even the Armed Forces came forth with a list of victims, many of them said to have been "thrown into the sea" to make them disappear...
...He even went to the extreme of unleashing a rumor of his death, which permitted his family to deny it with the phrase: "the end could come at any moment...
...And President Lagos, anticipating the ruling, said that Pinochet "has no influence" in Chile...
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...And if the Supreme Courtless subject to pressure than the Appeals Court that ordered the temporary dismissal-cannot deal with Pinochet, our task is to achieve the de facto condemnation that the dictatorship deserves...
...What to do...
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...That's the question we are left with, because we are already experts-after almost 28 years of simultaneous mourning and activism...
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...The Concertaci6n government added its bit...
...OPEN FORUM We Will Continue to Disturb His Peace BY PATRICIA VERDUGO NACIA REPORT ON THE AMERICAS NACLA REPORT ON THE AMERICAS Director Fred Rosen Editor JoAnn Kawell Associate Editor Margot Olavarrla Production Manager Eric Fichtl Business Manager Marisa Maack Advertising Coordinator Lisa A. Murphy Staff Assistants Carmen Burbano, Diego Johnson, Jordi Pius Llopart, Jeremy Shapiro Board of Directors Albert Bildner, Oscar Bolioli, Joan R. Dassin, Josh DeWind, Rick Edwards, Mark Fried, Fred Goff, Eric Hershberg, Peggy Hutchison, Pierre LaRam&e, Susan Lowes, Deidre McFadyen, Don Reasoner, TM...
...It is true that even the most extreme right winger publicly laments what happened and no longer denies it...
...Judicial appeals, extradition requests and all the resources that the law allows will be utilized until his death...
...Moreover, Lagos' justice minister surprisingly went back on his word...
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...He opted for the tactic of declaring his health to be deteriorating by checking into Santiago's Military Hospital time and time again...
Vol. 35 • September 2001 • No. 2
