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...Janeiro. Appointed Prime Minister in 1968, when longtime Dictator Antonio de Oliveira Salazar was incapacitated by a stroke, Caetano made some abortive moves toward liberalization and tried vainly to preserve Portugal's eroding colonial empire by continuing costly wars hi Mozambique and Angola before his dismissal by the junta of General Antonio de Spinola...
...military coup initiated the judiciary's political nullification. Between September 1973 and September 1974, Chile was unconstitutionally under a "state of siege", which the junta's Decree Law No. 5 defined as a "state of war". This definition created a system of military justice in which defendants were routinely sentenced to imprisonment or death without any appeal whatsoever, often on the basis of "evidence" extracted under the most excruciating torture. Military officers with very little or no legal training conducted these trials. Throughout that year, the Chilean Supreme Court refused to supervise the system of military justice...
...regime-sponsored attacks against leading exile figures exporting terror. It might have revealed that in September 1974 the Chilean secret policy struck against Gen. Carlos Prats, the leading constitutionalist military figure in exile. Gen. Prats' appeal within the Chilean military cannot be gauged. However, constitutionalism had worried the junta enough for it to stage anti-constitutionalist show trials in April, 1974. Further, during his exile in Buenos Aires, Gen. Prats had kept in close touch with officers in chile. The general and his wife died when their car blew up in Buenos Aires shortly before Gen. Prats completed his long...
...trial might also have revealed that the Chilean secret police had attacked Bernardo Leighton, a founder of the Christian Democratic Party. Leighton commanded immense prestige both in Chile and among the vast exile movement of professional politicians, unionists, former state officials, and former military officers. After the junta learned that Leighton was perhaps close to unifying the exile movement behind a government-in-exile, gunfire on a quiet Rome street badly crippled him and his wife...
After The Junta's takeover in 1973, Chile has become isolated in Latin America and the rest of the world. Diplomatic relations with Peru and Bolivia, among others, have been broken. The people of Chile live under the constatnt threat of war with their neighboring countries...