Word: chiles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sergio Bitar, a former Allende cabinet minister, shuffled from one concentration camp in Chile to another. Institutionalized brutality there has produced "a sort of Gestapo autonomous from the central government," he says...
Sergio Bitar, a native of Chile, is now a fellow at Harvard's Institute for International Development. John Karefa-Smart left Sierra Leone to become a lecturer at the Harvard Medical School. Pavel Litvmov has been polishing his English at Manhattanville College in Purchase. N.Y., so he can resume the study of physics that he had to abandon in the Soviet Union. These men have one trait in common--all were political prisoners in their native countries, and all were aided by an organization known as Amnesty International...
...guilt. Only Holland, the Scandinavian countries, West Germany, New Zealand. Canada, and Australia have no political prisoners (Amnesty would classify England in this group if it weren't for uncertainties over the situation in Northern Ireland). The countries with the greatest number of political prisoners now are Chile. South Africa, Rhodesia, and Indonesia. Up until its liberation last spring. South Viet Nam would probably have won the prize for political repression...
Sergio Bitar shuffled from one concentration camp in Chile to another until the military dictatorship there decided to release him in November. 1974. Former Minister of Mines for the Allende government. Bitar is now a visiting fellow at the Institute for International Development, where he is doing research on the political economy of his native country. He says that Amnesty has placed "much pressure" on the Chilean junta to curtail its repressive tactics. A recent Amnesty report on political imprisonment in Chile describes the situation in dry, detached language...
...gaining his release, saying that it was the combined pressures of world opinion that eventually won him his freedom. Many political prisoners are still languishing in Chilean jails. With a glint of anger in his eyes. Bitar remarks that the process of brutality has now been institutionalized in Chile, thereby producing "a sort of Gestapo autonomous from the central government." He describes the Chilean leadership as having "the most reactionary mentality in Latin America today," and concludes that a change will occur in Chile in the near future, due to internal instability and external pressure...