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...Chilean police said that the murders of the three men, two of them schoolteachers, were the work of the Communists themselves; opponents of the regime of General Augusto Pinochet Ugarte contended that government-backed death squads were responsible. A possible government aim: to force the Communists to end their backing of an urban guerrilla organization that in the past two weeks has staged bomb attacks against four banks and a newspaper in Santiago. The government quickly moved to end speculation about its involvement in the murders by promising a far-reaching inquiry...
...also discussed a situation closer to the Argentine leader's home: Chile, now the only major military dictatorship left in South America. Argentina, which shares a 2,500-mile border with Chile, is known to be deeply concerned that the Moscow-leaning Chilean Communist Party has with increasing stridency voiced support for "all means of struggle," including armed warfare, against the government of General Augusto Pinochet Ugarte. A U.S. official described Alfonsin's assessment of the problem as "not alarmist. He didn't urge the U.S. to take any action...
From these labs the tendrils of the traffic have reached into Nicaragua and Paraguay, while continuing to flourish in Mexico and the Caribbean. The cocaine business has, in fact, drawn its net around every country in South America except the tightly policed dictatorship of Chilean President Augusto Pinochet. "The drug trade is like a water balloon," says one frustrated U.S. official in Colombia. "You step on it in one place, and it squeezes out the side of your foot...
...worthless." Victims suffer not only from severe injuries but also from survivor guilt, depression and a form of weary aimlessness born of disorientation, sleeplessness and recurrent nightmares. Fear of authorities is so deep that almost any kind of bureaucratic delay can panic a survivor. In Toronto last March, a Chilean torture victim hanged himself the day before immigration authorities were to rule on whether he was entitled to stay in Canada as a political refugee. Delay is the enemy, not only because the survivor may be in shaky psychological condition but also because waiting, and the fear it brings...
Thus did the regime of Augusto Pinochet Ugarte prepare for a planned two-day protest against the Chilean President's rule, which was toughened by a state of siege declared on Nov. 6. The display of weaponry exceeded the response to previous street demonstrations, which have cost the lives of at least 110 civilians in the past 18 months. Last week's show of muscle was preceded by a campaign of intimidation at nearly every civilian level. Police made scores of arrests of leftist political and labor leaders. A government spokesman informed foreign newsmen that their credentials...