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...still continue. True, midnight arrests and unexplained detentions are rarer now than immediately after the coup, and summary shootings have stopped, but terror has become institutionalized. It operates in the hands of DINA, which has an estimated membership of 1,000 and is responsible only to Military Strongman Augusto Pinochet Ugarte. DINA (Dirección de Informaciones Nacional) maintains centers for interrogation where dozens of suspects are brutally tortured as a matter of routine. Says a senior foreign diplomat in Santiago: "With the single exception of detainees released [meaning those interrogated and exiled], I defy you to find any tangible...
Recent Victims. Last month, with considerable fanfare, General Pinochet signed a new decree requiring police officials to notify a prisoner's family within 48 hours of his detention and, more important, prohibiting "illegal pressure on detainees," meaning torture. But in one two-week period since the decree, according to legal sources, about 30 people were seized by the police; 19 of them have not been seen since. Among the recent victims is a socialist named Sergio Zamora Torres. Seized and tortured for six hours, Zamora eventually managed to get the protection of Raúl Cardinal Silva Henriquez, head...
...self-righteously claim that criticism is the work of Communists-may not be aware of the rising doubts about their performance. Yet a sense of unease on the part of many Chileans is unmistakable. If the police terror and economic deterioration are not reversed, many more will blame Pinochet and the junta-not the damage wrought by Allende-for the country's hardships...
...support for Gen. Pinochet's junta in Chile shows that Ford refuses to learn this lesson. Portugal provides still another example of the will of the people, in the form of a revolution ending 45 years of Fascism, over-coming the will of a few in power. Programs of nationalization are a welcome step toward economic equality, and we support Portugal's progress toward democratic socialism...
...block the group's entrance is typical of the State Department's attitude toward Chile since Allende took power in 1970. We can only view the department's harassment of these exiled supporters of Allende as a posthumous criticism of Allende and a continued support for the repressive Pinochet government...