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...medical tests ordered by the British government prompted Straw last month to announce he was "minded" to send Pinochet home on compassionate grounds rather than extradite him to Spain, where he faces charges of torture and kidnapping arising out of the repression of opposition during his 17 years as Chile's military ruler...
...arrest of Pinochet has reminded the world that the atrocities of dictators are not confined to one nation, but are a worldwide threat to fundamental human rights. If attempts to re-examine Pinochet's medical condition fail, he may still face prosecution in Chile, but his conviction there would be unlikely. Although the wounds from Pinochet's regime will never completely heal, Isabel Allende and many other Chilean citizens would be able to rest a little easier knowing that justice is finally being served...
...statement was welcomed by the Chilean government, but was condemned by the families of Pinochet's victims, who have argued that the general's health should become a factor in considering his fate only aftera trial. Officials of the present government suggest the general may yet face charges in Chile, but this is made unlikely not only by his health and the immunity he decreed for himself at the end of his reign, but also by the fact that his supporters are well placed to win Saturday's runoff presidential election. Nonetheless, the general's release won't be much...
Nowadays, the local airstrip serves as an emergency-landing area for the space shuttle. And as the new millennium approaches, vans start to appear, carrying cameras from Chile (more than 2,300 miles away) to transmit the New Year's ceremonies around the world (from an island that did not know direct television four years ago). In the few cafes around town, large men with tattoos and topknots can be seen arguing passionately that the tribal leaders now bow only before the altar of money and talking heads...
...contrast, Isabel Allende's Eliza Sommers runs circles around everyone else in Daughter of Fortune. Allende, raised in Chile and currently residing in California, is probably the most widely read Latin American woman novelist ever published. She transfers a variation of this distinction to Eliza, who breaks every rule of 19th century Valparaiso society to seek her callow lover in gold-crazed California...