Word: libertad
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...detriment because he's done so much." Moffitt points especially to the crackdown on members of the PDC, who began in 1976 to openly criticize the Pinochet government for the ruin they say it is inflicting on the Chilean people. Though Leigh is a former member of Patria y Libertad, a right-wing group of which Townley was also a member during the administration of former Chilean president Salvador Allende, Moffitt-believes that a government with both Frei and Leigh could change the human rights situation in Chile. "I think Frei would probably try to get some form of limited...
Moffitt says that the Pinochet government turned Townley over hoping he would not talk. Pinochet would like to make the assassination look like it was the work of Patria y Libertad so that he can dissociate himself from Townley and at the same time discredit Leigh, Moffitt says, adding that Pinochet was forced to deport Townley because he couldn't deny that Townley was issued an official passport. An interesting sidelight Moffitt mentions is a subscandal involving Guillermo Ossorio, the man who issued the passports to Townley and Larios. Ossorio died on October 21, 1977, after last being seen with...
According to the FBI, however, Townley was deeply involved in Chilean politics. During the Allende years he worked for the right-wing Patria y Libertad group, and after the 1973 coup headed by General Augusto Pinochet Ugarte, joined the new regime's military police. Shortly before Letelier's death, Townley and a Chilean army officer, Armando Fernandez, obtained visas under the names of Williams and Romeral and made three trips...
Chile in the past few years has re-enacted the scenario of polarization. The old conservative ruling class was rapidly joined in its opposition to the Allende government by a growing fascist movement, which, centered in the Patria Y Libertad (Fatherland and Liberty) movement, drew increasing support from the middle classes. Patria Y Libertad was formed only after Allende's 1970 election, but the group rapidly gained strength, attracting financial support, as had Hitler and Mussolini, from members of the old conservative landed and industrial classes. The last few months of the socialist government were punctuated with terror bombings...
Even until the end. Allende never swerved from his commitment to an orderly and democratic transition. The Right had begun to move against Popular Unity from the outset: businessmen sent badly needed investment capital abroad, distributers and the rightest press teamed up to exacerbate the notorious shortages, Patria y Libertad began to strike with bombings and assassinations. Although Allende encouraged the Left to organize outside the government, he never responded in kind to the Rightist attacks. He went so far as to bring the military into the government for stability as the Right's offensive peaked in late summer...