Word: chileanization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...DAYS AGO the United States formally asked Chile to extradite three former Chilean secret police agents who have been accused of assasinating Orlando Letelier, former Chilean ambassador to the U.S. under Allende and outspoken critic of the present right wing military junta...
...took the premeditated murder of a former diplomat to put teeth into a Justice Department with a sometime questionable commitment to ferreting out the truth. Last August the Justice Department concluded a 22-month investigation of the assasination with indictments of four anti-Castro Cubans and the three Chilean agents of the now defunct DINA, Gen. Juan Manuel Contreras Sepulveda, former head of the DINA, Pedro Espinoza Bravo and Armando Fernandez Larios...
...question of Pinochet's personal involvement in the assasination is still unresolved. The Chilean people have called for a full explanation from Pinochet, who continues to deny any involvement in the assassination, and has labeled pernicious the reports of his long-time friendship with Contreras. lies...
Israel Borquez, president of the Chilean Supreme Court, will have the opportunity to resolve many unanswered questions when he reviews the extradition requests. Under the terms of the extradition treaty between Chile and the United States, Borquez has four alternatives: he could find the evidence insufficient to warrant extradition and refuse to hear the case; he could label the assasination a political crime, which would also bar a trial under the treaty; he could order a trial in Chile, either open or closed; or he could decide to extradite the accused...
...Santiago, Pinochet ordered that the three Chileans be kept under house arrest. Espinoza and Fernández are officers in Chile's army; Contreras, once Chile's second most powerful official, was forced by Pinochet to resign in October to improve the junta's image. The Chilean Supreme Court now must determine whether the U.S. has enough evidence to warrant extraditing them...