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...Judge Juan Guzman's announcement Friday is a sign of how far the political tides in Chile have turned against Pinochet. Ever since he allowed the restoration of democracy, conventional wisdom has held that the former dictator was beyond the reach of the Chilean courts. He'd created an umbrella immunity from prosecution for himself as one of his preconditions for handing over power to civilians, and it was widely assumed that the military that had ruled Chile at gunpoint for 17 years would not tolerate civilians putting their erstwhile leader on trial. Even when Pinochet was arrested in Britain...
...time in Chile, which he said was one of the most democratic countries in Latin America, was when "politics and poetry came together" due to the influence of poets such as Pablo Neruda, he said. It was in this setting that he wrote his first novel...
...actress' solo. Some of the most compelling moments of the show come when Augustine deals with situation comedy scenes, as when Vittorio is caught between Charity and his steady, Ursula (played by Kate _ Earls '0_) or when Charity and Oscar refuse to look at each other in Barney's Chile Hacienda...
...Washington's closest allies. And that's just one of the more startling revelations in the latest collection of documents released by the CIA. The agency on Monday declassified the third in a series of documents that detail the U.S.'s role in the overthrow of Chile's democratically elected president in 1973 and Washington's subsequent support for the dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet. The papers demonstrate that the American government acted in full knowledge of the dictatorship's systematic and bloody abuse of human rights. The CIA was ordered by President Clinton to make the documentation available...
...emerges is far from pretty. But while there are unlikely to be any political recriminations in the U.S. at this point - notwithstanding the fact that former president George Bush was CIA director for some of the years under consideration - the latest documents may be bad news for General Pinochet. Chile's high court has stripped away the immunity he awarded himself as the price for relinquishing power, and only last week courts ordered him to undergo physical and psychiatric evaluation to determine his eligibility for trial on charges arising out of scores of kidnappings and killings. And the latest documents...