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While British police detained former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet last Friday, a Harvard student has been working to get him extradited to Spain for questioning...
Micah S. Myers '00, who spent 10 weeks last summer in Spain helping to lay the legal groundwork for the case, is an intern with the Spanish legal firm, Astorga y Garcs, that initially brought the complaint against Pinochet...
Making Augusto Pinochet Ugarte a member of Chile's Senate [NOTEBOOK, March 23] is a cheap price to pay for the future complete normalization of Chilean democracy. In 1970 Salvador Allende was elected President, not by the people but by the Senate. Allende was a Marxist-Leninist, but presumably he believed that democracy was the preferred means for political and social change. Still, under Allende, there were severe violations of human rights, and political dissidents were put in jail simply for speaking the truth. Very few have the moral right to judge the Chilean transition process, and some observers...
...everything had continued the way it was in Chile under Allende and there had been no Pinochet, we Chileans would have been the victims of a national educational system aimed at training a future generation of Chilean communists according to Marxist rules. Our parents would not have been able to bring up their children according to their own principles and convictions. Without Pinochet, I would not be a Catholic, a believer in democracy or the free thinker that I am today. M. CRISTINA VALENZUELA DE DOMIC Sao Paulo...
There are still people who can recognize an unquestionable and remarkable leader like Pinochet, who freed Chile from the oppressive arms of communism and socialism. Here is a leader who prevented the killing of people whose only crime was working hard, a leader who brought back peace and stability to a desperate society, a leader who masterminded the remarkable recovery of an economy that most specialists saw as completely paralyzed and ruined. MARCO MONTALBETTI Santiago...