Chile sentences 33 over Pinochet-era disappearances

[Judi Lynn]

Chile sentences 33 over Pinochet-era disappearances
23 March 2017


The High Court in Chile has sentenced 33 former intelligence agents for the disappearance of five political activists in 1987.

The court said that the five had been abducted and killed, and their bodies thrown into the sea.

Investigators said they were killed in revenge for the abduction of an army colonel by left-wing guerrillas.

The five are believed to have been the last people kidnapped under the rule of Gen Augusto Pinochet from 1973 to 1990.

More:
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-39364558

[Judi Lynn]

1. The nazi scum of Chile idolized Pinochet for "saving the country from becoming another Cuba."

From the BBC article above:

Gen Pinochet came to power in a military coup in 1973, when he overthrew the socialist government of President Salvador Allende.

Outside Chile, he is remembered as a ruthless dictator whose military regime tortured and killed thousands of opponents and drove many into exile.

But inside Chile he still has a small but ardent group of right-wing supporters who regard him as a hero for "saving the country from becoming another Cuba".

That disgustingly stupid claim has been used to death by now, hasn't it? "Another Cuba" would be a country which doesn't torture people to death or throw them out of helicopters, or even burn them to death in crematoria, as did Pinochet's US-supported death machine.