Word: pinochets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Ever since General Augusto Pinochet seized power in a coup in 1973, Chileans have lived under emergency law. Late last week they were given a respite when the military government announced a lifting of security measures that would, at least temporarily, curtail the government's extraordinary powers to limit public gatherings, restrict the press, arrest and hold persons with no judicial authorization and exile persons deemed dangerous to security. "It's better late than never," said Alejandro Hales, president of the Chilean Lawyers Association...
Chilean officials claim the measures were lifted because the government had succeeded in establishing order within the country. The more likely reason: politics. This week Chile's four military commanders will meet to nominate the country's sole presidential candidate, almost certain to be Pinochet, for a plebiscite planned for October...
Take the case of Chile, for example. Gen. Augusto Pinochet has ruled since 1973. Before he came to power, Chile was one of Latin America's most stable democracies until fears of Salvador Allende's "evil Socialism" began tp trouble his neighbors to the North...
Although Allende won the presidential elections of 1970 by a democratic vote, the United States, allegedly through the work of the CIA, supported the coup of 1973. Fifteen years later, Pinochet still rules and maintains "order" in Chile. Not once has President Reagan singled out Pinochet's regime as being a threat to democracy...
PUBLISHED nearly 15 years after the Chilean coup that replaced Salvador Allende's democratically elected government with a military regime, Jose Donoso's Curfew explores the harsh realities that comprise life for the millions of citizens surviving under the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet. A grim portrait of terror, machine guns, armored trucks and unresolved murders, Curfew presents the life of those protesting the Pinochet government, and criticizes not only the mechanisms of the government but also the solutions of the Left...