Chile's National History Museum director fired for including Pinochet in 'Sons of Liberty' exhibit
The director of the National Historical Museum of Chile, Pablo Andrade, was dismissed today following his decision to include a tribute to former dictator Augusto Pinochet in a historical exhibit.
The exhibit, called Sons of Liberty: 200 Years of Independence, was organized as part of the country's bicentennial celebrations.
Among the 14 notable figures in Chilean history, it included both a portrait of the late dictator as well as a quote of his extolling the September 11, 1973, coup as "[the day] Chile joined the fight against the Marxist dictatorship by freedom-loving peoples."
The Ministry of Culture, Arts and Heritage stated that the minister, Alejandra Pérez Lecaros, asked Andrade to resign, citing "serious curatorial errors" in the exhibit.
The ministry ordered the immediate withdrawal of the Pinochet tribute.
"We deeply regret the moral harm caused by this situation, as the form and selection has caused, with just cause, so much controversy, and is inadmissible," the ministry said in the statement.
Pinochet ruled Chile as head of a military junta from 1973 to 1990 after a violent coup against President Salvador Allende. The Pinochet regime left over 3,500 dead or missing, tortured at least 28,000 political prisoners, and drove an estimated 200,000 Chileans into exile.
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Chile's National Historical Museum, in Santiago.
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Shocking to hear they are publicly agitating there, too, to bring back hell to Chile's masses.
Please review info. on Osvaldo Romo, Pinochet's most effective torturer:
Last Updated: Wednesday, 4 July 2007, 19:42 GMT 20:42 UK
Infamous Pinochet-era agent dies
One of the most notorious figures from the regime of former military ruler of Chile, General Augusto Pinochet, has died in prison, officials have said.
Osvaldo Romo, who was serving 15 years in jail for killing three dissidents during Gen Pinochet's rule, died of heart and respiratory problems.
Known as "El Guaton" (The Fat One), he was awaiting trial for human rights abuses committed between 1973 and 1990.
Romo fled to Brazil afterwards, but was eventually extradited back to Chile.
A former officer in the feared Dina secret police force, Romo was accused by his victims of being a sadistic torturer.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6271462.stm
God only knows how many people had that image burned into their mind, soul, before their spirits surrendered to suffering.
Please remember in the last week or so Trump wildly endorsed torture as "TORTURE" and shouted he wanted to go way beyond waterboarding.
Don't forget we are temporarily in hell. Doesn't matter, hell is STILL going to be defeated. Good people are going to do it, the very same people who have been the prey of these filthy predators since forever. There IS an actual New World ahead, or what has been the purpose of life, at all?
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Thread with useful information:
Museum to Chile's Pinochet sickens victims
Fri Dec 12, 2008 9:29pm GMT
SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Family and friends of former Chilean dictator Gen. Augusto Pinochet quietly inaugurated a museum in his memory on Friday, replete with uniforms and medals he wore, to the horror of victims of his rule.
Among items displayed at the new Pinochet Foundation museum in an upscale quarter of the capital, Santiago, are the last uniform he used as commander in chief of the Chilean Army along with dozens of his medals.
"I am happy because this is a way of doing some justice to what he represented and what he did," said Lucia Hiriart, his widow, flanked by family and some former ministers and retired military. The event was low-key.
Pinochet led a bloody coup against the socialist government of Salvador Allende in 1973, ushering in 17 years of dictatorship in which 3,000 people died or disappeared and around 28,000 were tortured.
Victims of his rule, some of whom complain the wheels of justice turn too slowly in Chile, were disgusted.
https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-chile-pinochet-museum/museum-to-chiles-pinochet-sickens-victims-idUKTRE4BB6TH20081212?rpc=401&feedType=RSS&feedName=worldNews&rpc=401
Democratic Underground, from 12/12/08
https://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x3643144
(Note: during Pinochet's terrorism against the political left. real or suspected left, this river regularly carried the bodies of government-murdered suspected "dissidents" on their way out of town. People walking on the sidewalks on the banks often saw dead Chileans floating rapidly past them. The picture represents an old man searching the water for his government-kidnapped daughter.)
Graffiti on the banks. Pinochet did employ a squadron of helicopters to go from town to town, running down suspected anti-Pinochet people and murdering them by shooting the bejesus out of them. They called it the "Caravan of Death" hoping to make even a more horrible image to paralyze innocent people with fear, so they would be less inclined to become righteously indignant and consider protesting his sadistic, 100% evil right-wing rule.
Though not as well-known as their French counterparts, South America has produced numerous excellent post-impressionist painters over the years.
For those unfamiliar, the painter is Christian McManus (b. Santiago, 1965):
Your mention of the gruesome sight, so frequent in Santiago in the mid-1970s, of bodies floating in the Mapocho River, often remaining there for days in the dry season, reminded me of news I read earlier today that Adolfo Scilingo, the former Argentine Navy Captain who became a household name in Argentina when, in 1995, he made a surprise visit to a left-wing radio station to confess his role in the infamous Death Flights.
Some 8,000 people, as you know, perished that way from '76 to '78, often washing up ashore or being pulled up by fishing nets.
Scilingo was extradited to Spain a few years after his confession thanks to the efforts of Judge Bathazar Garzón (who Rajoy ordered removed six years ago, you'll recall).
He was sentenced in 2005 to multiple life sentences - but just today was discovered to be roaming freely in the Madrid suburb where his family now lives. Scilingo had apparently been granted frequent and extensive furloughs by the right-wing judge.
He was recognized by an Argentine man who happens to live in the same suburb.
https://www.vozpopuli.com/actualidad/internacional/escondite-Sicilingo-Madrid_2_1134206569.html
Great hearing from you as always, Judi. Have a restful weekend. 