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Forget the Asian crisis -- the greatest threat to Chile's stability is the arrest of its former dictator. Britain's detention of General Augusto Pinochet pending a Spanish extradition request has turned Santiago's prosperous streets into a battleground, and there was more bad news for the general on Wednesday: British legislators backed attempts to charge Pinochet in London should Spain's extradition request fail. That's a big headache for Chile's president, Eduardo Frei. "Roughly half the population is pro-Pinochet, with the other half fiercely opposed," says TIME Latin America bureau chief Tim Padgett. While few deny...
...Frei knows Chile's leverage with Britain and Spain is limited, but he'll keep fighting for Pinochet's release in order to placate his own military -- a good idea, since the general's immunity was the military's precondition for ending its dictatorship...
Pinochet held power in Chile for 17 years after effecting a coup of Salvador Allende's Marxist government on Sept. 11, 1973. Thousands of people died and disappeared during Pinochet's rule...
Pinochet was commander-in-chief of the army when he wrested control of Chile and a general until last March...
Pinochet was made a lifelong senator--with diplomatic status--by a new constitution his government drafted, and, under the terms of diplomatic immunity, Chile is protesting his arrest...