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When Chile's military government asked to play host to last week's annual meeting in Santiago of the Organization of American States, the junta hoped the occasion might be a good chance to change its widespread image as the most repressive regime on the continent. No such luck...
Even discussing the human rights issue (especially in Santiago) was something of an innovation for the OAS-and for Kissinger. As one member of the American delegation put it, "Henry has come a hell of a long way on human rights in the last 18 months." The Secretary's awakened concern about civic morality in Chile has coincided with strong signals from Congress that as far as the Pinochet regime is concerned, national security, economics and human rights are closely interrelated. Rejecting Administration requests, Congress has not only banned new military sales to Chile but has also...
Kissinger could not have been much tougher without totally alienating the Santiago regime and other Latin American countries where a right-wing military trend is currently running strong. The meeting and speech nonetheless did have their impact in Chile. In a startling move, the conservative daily El Mercurio even printed the entire text of the OAS report on Chile. The issue containing it sold, as one American journalist put it, "like the Watergate transcript...
...visit to South America and hoped, by the way. to secure the release of "quite a few" of the political prisoners still languishing in the jails of Chile's right-wing military regime. He succeeded. By the time Simon's Air Force jet landed in Santiago for his ten-hour visit there, the Chileans had quietly agreed to free some 300 detainees, among them two former ministers in the ill-fated Marxist government of Salvador Allende Gossens. In a brief airport talk, Simon pointedly noted that U.S. aid to the regime "will be handicapped if there...
...Germany in the 1930s. He said he was still optimistic. "I was born left and I will die left," he said. "Wherever we of the left go in the world, we have friends," he said. I thought about that, and about other things, as the bus rumbled through the Santiago slums towards the highway heading north...