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Before he gave up power to a democratically elected government in 1990, former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet Ugarte erected a legal fortress around himself. His 17 years of iron-fisted, right-wing military rule had been blamed for the death or disappearance of 3,400 suspected communists and leftists, not to mention the torture of thousands of others. With that legacy hanging over his head, Pinochet rammed through an array of constitutional measures that made him immune to prosecution, including a lifetime Senator's seat that he took amid widespread protest last March, when he retired as an army general...
That might be a premature verdict, however. As a Chilean Senator, Pinochet was traveling with a diplomatic passport. Though the government of Chile's President, Christian Democrat Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle, is hardly a Pinochet ally, it had little choice but to protest formally "what it considers a violation of the diplomatic immunity that Senator Pinochet enjoys," and demanded "an early end of this situation." But the British Foreign Office argued that such immunity would apply only if Pinochet had been on a diplomatic mission. Last weekend Pinochet's allies in Congress were scrambling to determine if his visit...
While British police detained former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet last Friday, a Harvard student has been working to get him extradited to Spain for questioning...
...Spanish judges are responsible for the petition against the Chilean ex-dictator. According to Myers, the present writ of indictment sent to London only covers the kidnapping of a leftist Chilean leader, Edgaro Henriquez--a crime allegedly committed under Pinochet...
...Spain also has a particular interest, Myers said, in investigating the alleged murder of 30 to 40 Spaniards by Chilean security forces during Pinchot's years as head of state...