Chile's Pinochet hospitalised after heart attack

[Judi Lynn]

Chile's Pinochet hospitalised after heart attack
Sun Dec 3, 2006 8:42 AM GMT

SANTIAGO, Chile (Reuters) - Former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, accused of murdering and kidnapping political opponents during his 17 years in power, suffered a heart attack on Sunday, a hospital source said.

Pinochet, who was 91 on November 25, was in "serious but stable" condition in a military hospital in the Chilean capital Santiago, the source said.

Pinochet marked his birthday by issuing a statement taking "political responsibility" for acts committed during the 1973 military coup that brought him to power, saying his only motive was to make Chile "a great place and prevent its disintegration".

Pinochet has been in ill health in recent years and his statement, which was read by his wife, Lucia, at their home, acknowledged his condition.

"Today, close to the end of my days, I want to make clear that I hold no rancour towards anybody, that I love my country above all else," he said.
(snip/...)

http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/articlenews.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2006-12-03T084202Z_01_N03424393_RTRUKOC_0_UK-CHILE-PINOCHET.xml

("I hold no rancour towards anyone?"

He KILLED everyone he didn't like!)

[Greeby]

1. This bastard is gonna die before he's brought to trial for anything

And sadly, when that day comes, Henry The K will be sleeping a little easier

[jeff30997]

10. I thought the same thing...

What a rotten bunch!

[Katzenjammer]

14. My thought too. The sonofabitch is going to skate.

Let's hope that they can at least recover the loot from his family.

[Say_What]

21. The entire family has been accused of embezzlement, fraud,

and other charges. His daughter came to the US early this year and filed for, get this: political asylum, aftr fleeing tax charges in Chile. Homeland Security sent her back. This family gives new meaning to the saying: "The family that preys together." Here's a clip from an article:

<clips>

...She and other family members were indicted Monday on charges of tax fraud, including failing to declare bank accounts overseas, and using false passports.

The tax fraud charges involve about $900,000. The government alleges that the Pinochet family helped hide the money.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials questioned Pinochet Wednesday after she arrived at Washington-Dulles International Airport from Argentina.

She was transferred Thursday to the custody of the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, a branch of the Department of Homeland Security.

Besides Lucia Pinochet, those facing similar charges include three of her siblings -- Marco Antonio, Jacqueline and Veronica Pinochet; Augusto Pinochet's wife, Lucia Hiriart; a daughter-in-law; and Pinochet's personal secretary.

In addition, Pinochet's eldest son, Augusto, faces passport charges, while Marco Antonio Pinochet's wife, Monica Ananias, and Pinochet's personal secretary, Oscar Aitken, are charged with failing to declare a foreign bank account.

Pinochet, 90, is accused of stashing $27 million in bank accounts abroad during his 17-year rule. Hiriart already has been charged as an accomplice to tax evasion on her husband's behalf.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/01/28/chile.pinochet/index.html

[LeftishBrit]

33. Yup. That's the risk, when you delay someone's trial till they're over 90.

I expect some people are quite relieved that it was delayed this long. Henry K would be only one of them.

[lvx35]

2. ooh...Castro or Pinochet, who will win? nt

[provis99]

3. it really is true

only the good die young; bastards like Pinochet just live on and on...

[Up2Late]

5. I was just about to say the same thing.

Here's another version from the BBC: <http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6203476.stm>

[Judi Lynn]

8. Thanks for the link to the BBC article. It referred to the "Caravan of Death."

For any DU'er who hasn't had time to read about that "hallmark" of Pinochet's career, here's some info:

Colonel Benavente reveals that his former subordinate, Captain Antonio Palomo Contreras, participated in secret missions to eliminate political prisoners

"Yes, and it was Palomo who had the orders to make them disappear, using his helicopter. Some of these bodies were dropped into the ocean; others were thrown on the high peaks of the Andes. Palomo should remember this perfectly well."

There are still more nauseating secrets to be unravelled from the Pinochet's period, that veritable Pandora's box. The latest came to light in the Chilean paper La Tercera of 25th June 1999 which published declarations of retired Colonel Oglanier Benavente that are very damaging for two retired Chilean generals, both under arrest; Augusto Pinochet in England and Sergio Arellano Stark in Chile. The former does not need introduction. Arellano Stark was the infamous officer who, shortly after the coup of September 1973, presided over a delegation which went to different provinces to put pressure on commanders who were considered to be excessively lenient in handling the defeated Allende's supporters. Arellano Stark's delegation, known as the Caravan of Death, illegally executed 72 political prisoners in October of 1973, a deed that heralded the sinister character of the newly born regime.

Colonel Benavente, now 70 years old, was then the Governor of Talca Province, 150 miles south from Santiago, the capital of Chile. "I have nothing to hide," he said, thus breaching a tacit pact of silence regarding the atrocities committed during the Pinochet era 1973-1990. For the first time, an ex-army officer has confirmed the method used in Chile to eliminate political prisoners. An undetermined number of disappeared detainees were dropped from helicopters during the military dictatorship. Colonel Benavente revealed that his former subordinate, Captain Antonio Palomo Contreras, participated in secret missions to eliminate leftist prisoners.

Captain Palomo, as Benavente's subordinate, never found any difficulty in disclosing to him "all the crimes". Palomo belonged to the Air Command of the Chilean Army based at the Tobalaba airport, on the outskirts of Santiago. He was also one of the pilots of the Caravan of Death, and told Benavente that he participated in the "disappearances and killings" of prisoners in Santiago's Tacna Regiment and was in charge of the secret disposal of the bodies.
(snip/...)

http://www.remember-chile.org.uk/inside/benavente.htm



Generals Sergio Arellano Stark and Augusto Pinochet a few hours before the departure of the Caravan of Death (September 1973)
It should not be forgotten so many lives were lost after being tortured to death in the NINE TORTURE CENTERS in Chile, and in the THREE TORTURE SHIPS which sailed off the coast of Chile, one of them named "La Esmeralda."



La Esmeralda, and a photo of the English priest killed through torture, Michael R. Woodward, in Valparaiso, Chile.
On edit:

Some articles lead readers to believe the victims thrown from helicopters and airplanes in Chile (and in Argentina during the Kissinger-approved Dirty Wars) had already "died" before they were flung. Not the case. I have read that they were merely heavily drugged to make them more manageable.

[heliarc]

25. Thanks Judi for your thorough information...

I just got back from Chile today after visiting Santiago for the first time in 8 years. Chile is my homeland, and my parents were exiled --lucky to get out-- in 1973. I was deprived at an early age of my real connection with Chile by the torturers and traitors that extinguished our beloved "Chicho" (Allende), but I cannot say that all the history of our country is sad. Presidenta Bachelet, herself a victim of torture at Grimaldi, now rules the government with some difficulty, but an equally stiff upper lip. We visited the Casa Grimaldi which has been converted into a memorial, and an old Spanish Embassy which had been converted into a DINA headquarters for the administration of torture and "investigaciones" has finally been recovered and now serves as the home of the wonderful modern artworks which form a collection presented to Allende by nation states and artists the world over. The new Museo de la Solidaridad Salvador Allende is among the most beautiful and solemn testaments I have seen in all my travels and it pays solid tribute to the man who sacrificed himself to expose the great injustices of our hemisphere.

As a Chilean American I feel ambivalent about the news today that Pinochet is dying. Part of me wants him to die painfully, and another part of me wants him to live as long as it needs for the nation to come to terms with his complicity and guilt and to bring him to justice. And another part of me believes its besides the point-- a sideshow to the real challenges that the nation and Bachelet face together to really combat what Pinochet symbolizes: the entrenched hard right which continues to drive a wedge into the cultural discourse and use the resulting disarray of historical fact to extract the riches of my home.

Pinochet will die, now or later, but his death - before or after juicio - can't save him from Allende's sacrifice. His decision to stay at La Moneda is the castigation, and history won't forget it. We won't. We carry it forward. Allende's dying words:

"In this moment of definition, the last thing I can say to you is that I hope you will learn this lesson: Foreign Capital and Imperialism, united with reactionary elements, created the climate for the armed forces to break with their tradition . General Schneider and General Araya, who belong to that tradition are now victims of the same social sectors that right now are in their homes, waiting to take power to continue defending their huge estates and privileges...."

"Workers of my homeland. I have faith in Chile and its destiny, Other people will overcome this gray and bitter moment where treason tries to impose itself. May you continue to know that much sooner than later the great avenues lined with trees through which free men will walk to build a better society will open."

Bachelet and Lagos, and those of us who continue to return to Chile and fight within its borders, and tell Allende's story, and recount the history of Pinochet and Kissinger's blatant disregard for democracy. All of us are the "other people" of which Allende speaks.

"Long Live Chile! Long Live the People!, Long Live the Workers!"

Thank you Allende. Your memory will live so much longer than Pinochet's ever will.

[leveymg]

4. Some of his friends and admirers. Pics>

[Judi Lynn]

6. They may have to fly his carcass to the States if they want Kissinger to attend his funeral!

It's not as easy for him to just get up and go these days, since there are people who want to prosecute him for his Chile-related human rights crimes!

[dipsydoodle]

13. See associated link from 2001

http://edition.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/europe/05/28/kissinger.pinochet/index.html?related

"He is under no legal obligation to answer the summons." That isn't quite what was reported elsewhere at the time - I think a warrant was issued for his arrest for contempt of court if nothing else. Part of the Paris trial concerned the my next para :

Pinochet wasn't Kissinger's first choice. The other guy declined and was murdered as a result - although he didn't agree with Allende's policies he did accept that Allende had been democratically elected.

Further info on this whole heap of shit may be found here : http://archives.cnn.com/2000/WORLD/americas/11/13/cia.chile.02/

edit : Rene Scheider was the guy they murdered : http://homepage.ntlworld.com/jksonc/schneider.html

[Judi Lynn]

16. Interesting to learn in your 2nd link that Clinton asked to publish a group of documents

on Chile in February, 1999, and they didn't find it possible to turn anything over until November 13, 2000, only a couple of months before he had to leave altogether, at the end of his term in January, 2001.

And some of it was simply DESTROYED. Someone appears to feel very clearly above the law here.

Thanks for these links. The third one looks like something which will take a lot of study. I've never heard of the "Traks" term they're throwing around. Looks worth reading carefully.

As for Schneider, I had NO IDEA what his part was expected to be until just today! I only assumed he was just in the road. This is very interesting. I hope somehow Kissinger can still be nailed for his murder.

[dipsydoodle]

18. From memory it's Schneider's family,

his son I think, who are pursuing the murder charges. We had a tv documentary here on the subject a few years back - yes we get all sorts of amazing stuff late at night. You might possibly find that in the DOSSIER link I gave you for videos - that site is back on line again now.

[Say_What]

22. Charles Horman's connection to Rene Schnieder...

Charles Horman and Frank Terrugi, US citizens living in Santiago during the coup, were taken to the stadium, tortured and executed. Horman had been investigating the murder of Schneider. The movie, Missing, is based on the Horman case. When I first saw it in the early 1980s when it came out, I was riveted to the screen.

<clips>

Three decades later, Joyce Horman still hasn't discovered the truth about what happened to her husband in Chile. But she has her theories.

In 1972, in a letter to his parents in New York, Charles Horman described an investigation he had conducted into the murder of the head of the Chilean army, Rene Schneider. Horman concluded, "An interesting thing is the enormous number of people who knew about it ahead of time, including Frei, his Ministers, the CIA, the American Ambassador, and several senators. I got interested and started reading court records and police statements and talking to people. The whole thing is like a novel; like Z."

This paragraph is laden with portent and grim irony. Within a year, Horman would meet the same fate as Schneider, killed at the hands of the CIA-backed Chilean military. Within a decade, the director of the film Z, Costa-Gavras, would turn his attentions to Horman's death and present to the world another compelling tale of murderous statecraft.

Horman was an occasional Nation contributor, penning three articles for the magazine in the late 1960s. Radicalized by the events of that period, he trekked down, along with his wife, Joyce, through Central and South America to observe Salvador Allende's "socialist experiment" in Chile. Together they participated in the women's liberation movement and the poor people's campaign. It was thus as an inquisitive, idealistic young man who had, in the words of Marc Cooper, "stumbled into the front row of history," that he met his death in the military coup of 1973.

With her parents-in-law now both dead, leadership of the "Charlie Horman Truth" campaign rests solely with Joyce Horman. In the week before I went to see her at the end of April, the case was back in the headlines. Over in London for one of his fabled lecture tours, Henry Kissinger had again escaped the clutches of the law when the British Home Office refused the request of Baltasar Garzón, the tireless magistrate investigating the deaths of Spanish citizens killed during the coup, to detain and question the "good doctor." I put it to her that, despite the great advances made in the past three years, it was still only a distant hope that any Chilean, never mind American, official would ever be brought to book.

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20020520/greenslade20020510

[dipsydoodle]

24. Thanks for that

The links, I could remember, were a bit rusty. It's all coming back now.

[Judi Lynn]

29. I'll take a look for it. There's a whole lot there to keep one busy!

That story really deserves to come out very publicly.

They murdered a man for not being crooked, and dirty, like them. Yet they demanded their fellow man/woman regard them as heroes. That doesn't compute.

I hope Latin America doesn't forget one vicious trick these right-wing murderous clowns in Washington have played in order to control and repress them.

As you've noticed, there are still some oppressor-"apologists" who are attracted like giant moths to D.U. to plead demand the case for U.S. right-wing domination of the Western Hemisphere, from Canada to Chile's tip.

Maybe in 2007 we'll "get after 'em!"

[SoCalDem]

7. Only the evil ones get the long lives..n/t

[Katzenjammer]

15. Because they have no conscience to wear them out. And they have plenty of our money to keep them in

comfort and the best of healthcare.

[Say_What]

23. OR,

because they have a smidgeon of conscience--just enough to haunt them and so cannot reconcile the horror they are responsible for bringing to their fellow man. I prefer to think of it this way :-)

[Katzenjammer]

30. Wonderful graphics and sentiment. I wish I could believe in your vision

Unfortunately, there's no evidence that scum like PinochetCo have anything resembling even the idea of a conscience. :(

[Say_What]

31. Perhaps payback comes in a different way... see Post 21

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=2638905&mesg_id=2639382

Interesting how the MSM is spinning that he took "full repsonsibility" for what happened in Chile when all he really did was defend the coup and justify the torture, murder, and disappearance of thousands of Chileans with the full support of the USSA.

[laststeamtrain]

9. I hope he bursts into flame. A pig. Scum.

[sg_]

11. He's been given the last rites...

according to sky news

[Eugene]

12. "Pinochet is in a serious but stable condition"

Last Updated: Sunday, 3 December 2006, 12:56 GMT

Chile's Pinochet has heart attack

Chile's former military leader Augusto Pinochet is in a serious but stable
condition after being treated for a heart attack, doctors have said.

-snip-

One of the medical staff, Dr Juan Ignacio Vergara, said Gen Pinochet
was in a stable condition but his life was not out of danger.

-snip-

Full article: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6203476.stm

[LeftyMom]

17. His health takes a turn for the worse every time his name is mentioned in court.

I'll believe he is dying when he actually does it, and in the meantime I'll assume it's a ploy to avoid prosecution.

[Doctor_J]

19. He'll get the seat in hell between Hitler and Marge Schott

Bon voyage

[mahina]

20. Headline should read, "Hell Readies a Room"

But since we installed him, and our people were blissfully unaware of the havoc we wreaked, we are responsible too.
There is a great documentary that ran on PBS called "A Force More Powerful" about how societies around the workd kicked out tyrants, including this one. It's available now for purchase for about 40. but netflix and of course blockbuster don't have it. I recommend it highly. This asshole was kicked out by people power we would be pressed to match.

[NuttyFluffers]

26. may his painkillers get swiped and sold on the black market

and may he linger painfully in serious condition.

where's my Indonesian witch doctor buddy...

[Joe Bacon]

27. Hope he says "Hi" to his pal Milton Friedman when he goes to hell.

I blame Milton Friedman for the creation and encouragement of Pinochet. Friedman got to turn Chile into a Lasseiz Fairyland, the damage will take a century to undo.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

28. (Starts training self's best, most flamboyant, dance moves)

(Works to adapt them to small concrete surfaces)

[mitchtv]

32. Gonna pull out my Victor Jara vinyls

and cry one more time before I open a nice Chilean chadonnay. I was in Lima when Schneider was murdered. It seems only Americans didn't know it was a CIA action. On 9/11/73 I was in La Paz ;refugees all over the place from Chile. Hell, even Swiss were being picked up by rthe fascists. The internal exile was a despicable atrocity.
"Run Run" by Victor Jara.
"El Derecho de Vivir in Paz"
"Te recuerdo Amanda"

[Judi Lynn]

35. Most Americans have never heard of General Schneider, not to mention

the fact he was murdered, and how. Really sad that the suppression of ALL the heavy covert work on dissidents, "leftists," or even neutral people in Latin America and the Caribbean was totally successful, leaving a huge country's population almost totally ignorant of events which destroyed huge numbers of people in ways that will forbid forgiveness.

Here's a quick look at General Rene Schneider from Wikipedia for anyone who wants to find out who he was, and why his name is connected to Henry Kissinger's:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rene_Schneider

Here's a photo of Victor Jara, killed by Pinochet's regime in the National Stadium in Santiago (?), after a lot of torture, and having had his hands smashed under the butt of a gun.



Here are the lyrics to an unfinished song, translated by his wife, Joan:

An Unfinished Song

Translated from the Spanish by Joan Jara
There are five thousand of us here
in this small part of the city.
We are five thousand.
I wonder how many we are in all
in the cities and in the whole country?
Here alone
are ten thousand hands which plant seeds
and make the factories run.
How much humanity
exposed to hunger, cold, panic, pain,
moral pressure, terror and insanity?
Six of us were lost
as if into starry space.
One dead, another beaten as I could never have believed
a human being could be beaten.
The other four wanted to end their terror
one jumping into nothingness,
another beating his head against a wall,
but all with the fixed stare of death.
What horror the face of fascism creates!
They carry out their plans with knife-like precision.
Nothing matters to them.
To them, blood equals medals,
slaughter is an act of heroism.
Oh God, is this the world that you created,
for this your seven days of wonder and work?


Within these four walls only a number exists
which does not progress,
which slowly will wish more and more for death.
But suddenly my conscience awakes
and I see that this tide has no heartbeat,
only the pulse of machines
and the military showing their midwives' faces
full of sweetness.
Let Mexico, Cuba and the world
cry out against this atrocity!
We are ten thousand hands
which can produce nothing.
How many of us in the whole country?


The blood of our President, our compañero,
will strike with more strength than bombs and machine guns!
So will our fist strike again!
How hard it is to sing
when I must sing of horror.
Horror which I am living,
horror which I am dying.
To see myself among so much
and so many moments of infinity
in which silence and screams
are the end of my song.
What I see, I have never seen
What I have felt and what I feel
Will give birth to the moment ...

Here's a translation of his song,

Te Recuerdo, Amanda

I remember you, Amanda,
the wet street,
running to the factory
where Manuel used to work.

Your smile was wide,
the rain was in your hair,
nothing mattered,
you were going to meet with him.

with him, with him, with him,
it's five minutes,
life is eternal
in five minutes.
The siren sounds,
back to work
and you, walking,
brighten everything up,
those five minutes
make you flower.

I remember you, Amanda,
the wet street,
running to the factory
where Manuel used to work.

Your smile was wide,
the rain was in your hair,
nothing mattered,
you were going to meet with him.

with him, with him, with him,
who left for the mountains,
who never hurt anyone,
who left for the mountains,
and in five minutes
was destroyed.
The siren sounds,
back to work,
many didn't return.
Manuel didn't either.

I remember you, Amanda,
the wet street,
running to the factory
where Manuel used to work.

There's a good audio link under the photo here, with a muted background of his music behind the announcer:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/165363.stm

What an unbelievably horrid shame. May his life not have been brutally stolen by Pinochet for nothing.
I hope the price will be paid by the Fascists ahead of them on the road.

[Zynx]

34. The bastard should be choked with his own intestines.

The guy is pure evil.

[Judi Lynn]

36. New information (to me, at least) on torture center in Chile. Disturbing, to say the least.

(Tracy Barnett/Express-News)

The ombu tree, dubbed El Arbol de la Esperanza or 'Tree of Hope,' was once an instrument of torture, and the sculpture takes the place of a parking lot where prisoners were run over.

Chile's human rights tours, independence celebration reveal a country's healing process

Web Posted: 11/18/2006 03:38 PM CST

~snip~
The peaceful garden quickly transforms into a surreal landscape of terror as the stories of my tour guide unfold. The graceful ombu tree, dubbed El Arbol de la Esperanza, the tree of hope, that became an instrument of torture for prisoners who hanged there by their arms, sometimes for days. And the tiled sculpture covers the parking lot where soldiers drove repeatedly over the broken bodies of the detained in an effort to extract more information about the resistance to Pinochet's military government.
(snip)

Tower of death

Carolina Urzua, my guide, takes on a detached air as she chronicles the events that unfolded here, frozen in time through the diorama at the park's center and the innocuous-looking wooden structures on the perimeter. On the left of the grassy walkway, for example, is one of the tiny wooden holding cells, where four or five prisoners were held for months in a space the size of a telephone booth. On the other side of the park looms "La Torre," a narrow tower where prisoners would be taken for interrogation — many of them never to be seen again.
The walls of the dark, stifling tower were lined with drawings depicting military officers and their terrified prisoners, along with the tools of torture — such as the "parrilla" or metal grill where they would chain the prisoners while they applied electrical shocks to their bodies. For greater effectiveness, some of these devices had two levels so that friends and family members could be held and tortured together, one above the other. At this point I'm feeling ill — I really don't want to hear any more — but Urzua presses on.

On the second and third floors are the cupboard-sized sliding doors that raise to reveal the tiny spaces where battered prisoners were squeezed, sardine-like, to await further torture and interrogation. And at the top, a lookout tower where soldiers kept vigil over the entire complex.

Back down the narrow stairs and into the fresh air is the pool where, Urzua explains, the spouses and children of the officers would come on the weekends to swim and relax.

"It was so strange," says Urzua. "The families would come here over the weekend to entertain themselves out in the country, and things were so hidden that most of them had no idea what was going on here right around them."
(snip)

http://www.mysanantonio.com/salife/travel/stories/MYSA111906.1Q.santiago.1408d04.html

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~



Villa Grimaldi, Tower of Death



NATIONAL STADIUM



(Avenida Grecia 2001, Ñuñoa)

"It is impossible not to ponder the history of the National Stadium: it was a refuge for Europeans fleeing Nazism in the Second World War; it was a joyous site of celebration when Chile won third place in the 1962 World Cup; it was made into a camp for the imprisoned, tortured and executed in 1973; it received the simple kiss of reparation from Pope John Paul II on soil that knew too much sorrow; it danced the "cueca" alone on March 12, 1990 in the days of “the fair and good homeland,” when Aylwin assumed power; it vibrated with music and human rights during the Amnesty International concert at the beginning of this decade. The National Stadium has more history than meets the eye."


(Augusto Góngora, La Tercera February 13, 1998, following a concert there by the U2 rock group, in which the
Relatives of the Families of the Disappeared came on stage to draw attention to their cause)


"Every night we would hear the screams of the workers who were executed in the east wing of the National Stadium in Santiago. The next day, the blood stains were washed away with hoses. Every day, observers would see a pile of shoes that had been worn by the victims of the previous night."


(Pablo Antillano, Venezuelan journalist in the Morning Star,
September 28, 1973. Chile. Libro Negro)


Between September 12 and 13, the National Stadium was turned into what would be the largest detention camp in Santiago. The Red Cross International estimates there were about 7,000 prisoners there as of September 22, and 200 to 300 of those were not Chilean citizens. The Army controlled the National Stadium and brought in prisoners from all over Santiago.

The National Stadium prisoners slept in the locker rooms and in the tower room, both places without beds. The women's areas did have sleeping mats. Some charitable international organizations subsequently donated blankets, which were in any case insufficient for the large number of people confined there. The prisoners were held incomunicado, without authorization to recieve visits from family members or lawyers, or any outside person. Prisoners' families were only allowed to take them clothing and food.

"Prisoners began to arrive at the National Stadium from all directions..."

(Read the testimony of Alberto Gamboa taken from his book Un Viaje por el Infierno,
volume I, published by La Partida, 1984.)
(snip/...)

http://www.chipsites.com/derechos/campo_santiago_estadio_nacional_eng.html

[Judi Lynn]

37. Hey! Great news! He's getting better! (sarcasm)

Chile's Pinochet removed from intensive care unit as recovery continues Canadian Press
Published: Friday, December 08, 2006 Article tools

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) - Gen. Augusto Pinochet has been moved from a hospital's intensive care unit as he recovers from a heart attack, officials said Friday.

Pinochet, 91, has been at the Santiago Military Hospital since Sunday, when he suffered what doctors described as an acute heart attack.

Doctors performed an angioplasty, in which a catheter is introduced into a clogged artery to enlarge it and allow restoration of blood flow to the heart.

"His recovery has been satisfactory," the hospital said, adding that Pinochet was transferred to an "intermediate care room" on Thursday.
(snip/...)

http://www.canada.com/topics/news/world/story.html?id=8fa0ca15-f405-45fe-a189-4bd9ffae4d71&k=14479