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...Santiago Center is the only University organization that formally orchestrates an organized study abroad program for undergraduates, including housing and registration at three local Chilean universities. The Center’s office in Santiago also functions as a vital resource for students studying abroad there...
...Santiago Center serves, however, more than just undergraduates. The office sends third-year HMS students to a local hospital to practice and train treating Spanish-speaking patients. And the Design School has begun a new program that focuses on the teaching of design and development of low-cost housing through The Santiago Center. The office also collaborates with individual members of the faculty on a number of projects, from museum exhibits to academic field conferences...
Dwight Perkins, the director of Harvad’s Asia Center, says that the success of the Santiago Office—in addition to the underlying need to support students and faculty abroad—has spawned serious discussions throughout the University about erecting more centers in other parts of the world, as well as growing and integrating Harvard centers already in existence. Perkins says it is too early to tell whether the Asia Center—currently only operative in Cambridge—will expand its program to service students and faculty abroad...
Yesterday, Chile’s Court of Appeals upheld the decision, made last week by Santiago judge Juan Guzmán, to indict former dictator Augusto Pinochet for allegedly ordering the kidnapping of nine people and the murder of another, between 1976 and 1977. While it is absolutely laudable that, six years after his arrest in London in 1998, the 89-year-old General Pinochet may, at last, be held to account for at least some of the abuses of his brutal regime (which lasted from 1973 until 1990), Chilean jurists must be cautious not to circumvent due process...
...senatorial immunity: in August 2000, Chile’s Supreme Court stripped Gen. Pinochet of the protection he enjoyed as a Senator-for-life. There remained, however, the pesky issue of Pinochet’s health: after a judge placed him under house arrest in January 2001, the Santiago Appeals Court ruled that Pinochet was indeed medically unfit to stand trial and so forced prosecutors to abandon the case against him. Until yesterday, that medical defense held fast. Though his defense counsel has pledged to appeal yesterday’s indictment to Chile’s highest court, it seems...