Word: chile
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Police forces in Chile, according to Amnesty, inflict not only routine beatings but also a gamut of abuses referred to in sardonic slang. El telefono (the telephone) consists of blows with the palms of the hands on both ears simultaneously; la parrilla (the metal grill) is an electrical shock administered to the genitals; el submarino or la banera (the submarine or the bath) is a treatment in which the victim's head is held under water almost to the point of suffocation. Says Grantham: "Torture does not occur simply because individual torturers are sadistic. They tend to be servants...
...people prepared, so did the government. It imposed a 48-hour curfew to limit street demonstrations. Ironically, the curfew made Chile's 24-hour general strike last week far more effective than widespread street rioting would have been. Fed up with the ten-year-old regime of General Augusto Pinochet, thousands of Chileans kept their children home from school to protest their country's 30% unemployment and 30% inflation. Public transportation was scarce, and a majority of truckers stayed off the roads. After the Santiago Retailers Association joined the protest, most stores closed their doors. At nightfall...
...which Chile's Marxist President, Salvador Allende Gossens, was overthrown and killed...
...there been hearings so openly conducted on ideological grounds rather than merely political ones. For some men there is a high emotive content in terms that apply to me: soldier, Republican, conservative, patriot. Add to that tinder the burning issues of Watergate, Viet Nam, Cambodia, wiretaps, the CIA, Chile, and you have the makings of a pretty hot time...
...length I was overtaken by exasperation. This happened on the fourth day, after a long session in which the plowed and salted earth of the Nixon era?Chile, wiretaps, Watergate?was spaded again and again. Democratic Senator Paul Sarbanes of Maryland turned once again to Nixon and his deeds. Why had I not resigned as a matter of conscience? It hardly seemed necessary to say again that I had not been there when the misdeeds took place. So I suggested that one did not have the option of quitting when the Republic was in danger: "I felt an obligation...