Word: pinochets
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ELECTED. MICHELLE BACHELET, 54, physician and socialist; as Chile's first female President; in Santiago. An agnostic divorcé with three children, she was imprisoned and tortured under right-wing dictator Augusto Pinochet in the 1970s. Her win is seen as a sign of a cultural shift in conservative, Roman Catholic Chile and was the latest in a series of leftist victories in Latin American elections...
...most socially conservative Roman Catholic countries, which only recently legalized divorce: Bachelet is a 54-year-old physician, an agnostic, a socialist and a single mother of three. Her candidacy also offered the electorate an opportunity to reckon with the trauma of the 17-year dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet, which ended in 1990. The president-elect's father had been an Air Force general who died in the hands of Pinochet's security forces, while Bachelet herself and her mother had also been held in torture centers before being exiled...
...despite her suffering at the hands of the Pinochet regime, Bachelet's political signature has been reconciliation rather than revenge. As minister of defense, she was credited with brokering a peace between Chilean civil society and the armed forces after a decade of controversial investigations into human rights violations under the dictatorship...
...doubt the boss will be in a mood to attend." GENERAL GUILLERMO GARIN, spokesman for General Augusto Pinochet, on the former Chilean dictator's cancellation of a luncheon celebrating his 90th birthday, after he was indicted on human-rights charges and placed under house arrest
...torture could be overruled at the order of the U.S. President. Because of their arguments, Sands said, members of the Bush administration—including legal counsel—could be pursued by other signatories of international treaties. Sands cited as precedent the detention of former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet in London in 1999 and a U.S. lawsuit in the aftermath of World War II which convicted individuals for participating “in governmentally organized systems of cruelty.†One key and controversial legal advisor to the Bush administration—now on the Harvard Law faculty?...