Word: pinochets
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...Chilean author Isabel Allende has penned a number of novels describing, in striking detail, the horrors of former dictator Gen. Augusto Pinochet's regime. From hidden mass graves to public executions of dissidents, these atrocities can fill volumes. Yet Allende only refers to Pinochet as the man in sunglasses and a beret. Her reluctance to explicitly name Pinochet underscores the terrifying influence the former dictator still holds over many Chileans...
Recently, the British Interior Ministry deemed Pinochet unfit to stand trial, citing numerous health ailments. Claiming patient confidentiality, the Ministry has refused to release the medical records to Belgium and human rights groups who have brought a suit against Pinochet for the torture he ordered during his dictatorship. While putting a sick man on trial is a breach of justice, allowing a second opinion on the diagnosis is only fair...
...suit represents a legitimate claim of the many Chilean citizens who were the victims of undeserved violence and coercion. Thousands of Chileans still search for family members who "disappeared" and thousands more nurse the scars, both physical and emotional, incurred during Pinochet's 17-year rein...
Oberholtzer, who is a third-year law student, defeated a series of competitors by answering multiple-choice questions--with subjects ranging from Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet to the hit film Jerry Maguire--and expanded his winnings from $100,000 to his wallet-bursting total...
...voice to Western audiences than they use at home - after all, Moscow's new security doctrine, which Putin signed off on only three weeks ago, defined the U.S. not as Russia's partner, but as its primary strategic rival. Analysts have likened Putin to former Chilean dictator General Augusto Pinochet - who conducted free-market economic reforms under an iron-fisted political regime - and even to Yuri Andropov, the former KGB chief who ruled the Soviet Union in the early '80s and pressed for modernization of the economy while maintaining an authoritarian grip on society and a competitive relationship with...