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...grisly murder ended the life of a man high on the hate list of Chile's right-wing military government. Letelier had been one of Chile's most prominent citizens-in-exile. An economist, a lawyer and a committed Socialist, he was sent to Washington as Santiago's ambassador by Chile's Marxist President Salvador Allende Gossens in 1971. Two years later, Letelier returned home to take a series of top Cabinet jobs during the frenetic final days of the Allende regime. Imprisoned by the junta that succeeded Allende, Letelier was freed in mid-1975. Returning...
...Chilean government quickly denied any connection with Letelier's murder. "The evil attack," said Santiago's pro-junta daily El Mercuric, would be "used to revive the campaign of hate and lies against Chile" at the United Nations General Assembly, which convened last week. But opponents of the regime noted that Letelier's killing was the latest in a string of attacks on prominent Chilean exiles who posed problems for the junta. In September 1974, General Carlos Prats Gonzalez, predecessor as army chief of staff of the tough current junta boss, General Augusto Pinochet Uguarte, was assassinated...
...Augusto Pinochet Ugarte's regime in Chile, for example, has become something of an embarrassment to the Ford Administration. Last May, Treasury Secretary William Simon helped secure the release of at least 49 political prisoners. Shortly afterward, at the June meeting of the Organization of American States in Santiago, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger made his strongest statement yet on human rights. "A government that tramples on the rights of its citizens denies the purpose of its existence," Kissinger announced, adding: "There are several states where fundamental standards of human behavior are not observed...
...torture takes place in clandestine and ever changing places of imprisonment; one center is the Villa Grimaldi in Santiago, a former discotheque. Many suspects who live through their tortures are simply transferred to a detention camp, like Tres Alamos in Santiago. According to one report by reliable groups within the country, there were 85 female prisoners at Tres Alamos as of May; 72 of them insisted that they had been tortured. The most common methods: beating, rape (sometimes by trained dogs), electric shock and burnings with lighted cigarettes...
...euphemisms and code words. Some former prisoners report, for example, that at the notorious Sao Paulo torture center of the Brazilian political police, a torture session has been called a "spiritual seance," as if it involved a cleansing of impurities. Victims in Chile say that DINA interrogators refer to Santiago's infamous Villa Grimaldi as the Palacio de la Risa?the Palace of Laughter. In Iran, Otagh-e Tamshiyat, or "the room in which you make people walk," is a name for the blood-stained chamber where prisoners are forced to walk after torture to help their blood circulate...