Word: santiagos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nominating process was dubbed Super Tuesday, but any resemblance between the meeting at the Ministry of Defense in Santiago last week and the U.S. primaries was in name only. In less than an hour, a handful of top military men had named President Augusto Pinochet Ugarte, Chile's ruler of 15 years, as the only candidate in an Oct. 5 plebiscite. Pinochet appeared on the balcony of the presidential palace and urged citizens to keep Chile "sovereign and free...
...party rule in Mexico or one-man rule in Chile benefits the United States more than an open, democratic system because the U.S. would rather have order in Mexico City and Santiago than chaos in both cities...
...first sign that something was seriously amiss came in 1966 when Wolfgang Muller, then 20, escaped from Colonia Dignidad for the third time and begged the West German embassy in Santiago not to send him back for fear he would be killed. Muller, who now lives in West Germany under a different name, claimed that Schafer had molested him when he was twelve. He told of regular beatings and the use of electroshock and narcotics by camp doctors, and described Schafer as a dictator who condones drug experiments and torture and enforces hard labor from sunup to sundown...
...river. U.S. officials consider the case still open. The Pinochet government has given the colony its tacit support. West Germany, for its part, has been reluctant to speak out against Schafer in the past because of close ties between Colonia Dignidad and officials at the West German embassy in Santiago...
...colony. According to Pacheco, the group identified four underground rooms that matched descriptions by DINA torture victims. The visitors had less luck with their request to interview Jurgen Szurgelies, 24, who was returned to the colony by local authorities after escaping last month. The West German embassy ; in Santiago has initiated a case in a Chilean court to put Szurgelies under legal protection, and the court is expected to decide this week whether he was taken to Colonia Dignidad against his will...