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...serve because of untreatable disease Chile...
...million Cost of recent U.S. presidential trips to Chile, China and Africa, not including Secret Service expenses...
...London Monday in an international legal climate much different from when he was first arrested last October. Spain wants Pinochet extradited to face trial for the systematic human rights abuses committed by his military junta between 1973 and 1990 (including, but not limited to, torture on Spanish citizens). Chile?s government is arguing that extraditing Pinochet violates Chile?s sovereignty, and that if he needs to be tried it should be in a Chilean court ?- although there had appeared to be no prospect of that happening before his arrest in Britain...
Some people make a second argument against prosecuting Pinochet; this one is based on the consequences that the prosecution would have. They have alleged that the case would generate instability in Chile, slowing or even risking its transition to democracy, and leaving that nation's citizens worse...
These dire predictions have been proven wrong, largely because they misunderstand the relationship between justice and democracy. For the sizable percentage of Chile's population with relatives or friends who were victims of Pinochet's terror, his arrest had positive consequences. For these people, long overdue justice is starting to materialize, lending the idea of democracy a fuller meaning. Democracy has not only been made fuller for the victims and their families, but Pinochet's arrest has made the democratic transition more secure. According to a recent Washington Post article, the psychological effects of Pinochet's arrest in Chile have...