Forensics expert says ex-Chilean president was assasinated

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Guardian/McClatchy

Forensics expert says ex-Chilean president was assasinated
McClatchy newspapers
guardian.co.uk, Thursday July 10, 2008

A court forensics expert said yesterday that former Chilean president Eduardo Frei Montalva was assassinated in January 1982 after a simple hernia operation during the rule of dictator Augusto Pinochet.

The statement by Carmen Cerda, the chief of the forensics team investigating the case, confirmed long-time suspicions that Frei Montalva, who was Chile's elected president from 1964 to 1970, had died of foul play at age 71. Medical officials had said that infection related to the surgery was the cause of death.

Cerda, however, said that a combination of toxins, including mustard gas, gradually administered to the former president ultimately killed him. If confirmed, Frei Montalva would be the only Chilean president to be assassinated.

~snip~
As president, Frei Montalva oversaw ambitious social programs that built housing for poor Chileans and redistributed land to poor farmers. He also seized more state control of the country's mining resources.


Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jul/10/chile.pinochet

[evlbstrd]

1. "If confirmed, Frei Montalva would be the only Chilean president to be assassinated."

What about Allende?

[damntexdem]

2. El Companero Presidente was assassinated as he fought against Pinochet's coup.

Unless one thinks that being riddled by bullets is "natural causes."

[dipsydoodle]

4. I was thinking that too

x(

[RaleighNCDUer]

3. Didn't you know?

Allende died of a heart attack upon seeing the fascists breaking down the door to his chambers and coming in with guns blazing.

Purely a mischance.

[endarkenment]

5. Commited suicide by shooting himself repeatedly in the back.

Or so I am told.

[Judi Lynn]

7. The old "suicide" claim made it all so much tidier! No loose ends. n/t

[robinlynne]

13. EXACTLY!

[Joanne98]

6. Confessions of an Economic Hitman and The Shock Doctrine

Two MUST read books!!!!!!!

[daggahead]

9. Indeed ...

Those two books clearly explain how this happens.

I just wish we knew which US corporations the EHMs helped.

[The Backlash Cometh]

8. Geez. That only took 26 years to uncover.

[Judi Lynn]

10. You may find this information interesting: Hot Debate over Extent of US Intervention in Coup

Hot Debate over Extent of US Intervention in Coup
By Gustavo Gonzalez, IPS
14 September 1998

SANTIAGO, Sep 14 (IPS) - Right and left-wing senators in Chile argued Monday over the extent of US intervention against the government of Salvador Allende, in the wake of the declassification of documents in Washington.

Rightist opposition parliamentarians maintained that US support for the military was not decisive, and that the coup staged 25 years ago against the democratically elected socialist president would have taken place with or without US intervention.

Socialist legislators of the centre-left ruling coalition argued, however, that the White House campaign to destabilise the Allende administration sparked the bloody Sep. 11, 1973 coup, which - they insisted - could have been avoided.

The declassification of Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and Richard Nixon administration documents has shed new light on the US role in the military coup.

The documents, declassified by the government of President Bill Clinton, were published on the Internet Friday by the independent National Security Archive and reported on in Chile by the 'La Tercera' daily on Sunday.

Also on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the coup, former US ambassador to Chile Edward Korry provided 'Radio Television France' with new information on CIA intervention in the 1964 presidential elections in Chile, when Christian Democrat Eduardo Frei Montalva - the father of current President Eduardo Frei - defeated Allende and his coalition of socialists and communists with the support of right-wing forces.

More:
http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/42a/134.html


The retrospective history of Chile
Section: U.S. overthrows Chilean democracy (1963-1973)

http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/42a/index-dg.html

[formercia]

11. Assassinated in Hospital

Slowly, with medical precision to make it appear like an infection.

I'd bet money that the hospital was run by the same 'Order' that Pinochet belonged to. One that likes to assassinate with a 'Poison Cup.'

When Che was assassinated, his body was taken to a hospital run by that 'Order', where body parts were taken as trophies, much like the Nazi doctors did in the death camps.

Same gang.

[Judi Lynn]

14. It always seemed "Operation Condor" was probably conceived somewhere OUTSIDE Chile, and Pinochet was

the figurative host of the international effort to assassinate leftists.

Truly sneaky stuff. Dishonest, underhanded.

Citizens are treated like stooges. They have absolutely nothing to say about things like this which are simply political, yet deadly.

[formercia]

16. Pinochet was not the head but just one of the tentacles

It was part of the same synarchist movement that put Hitler in power.

[David__77]

12. Oh the irony... Frei's role leading up to the fascist coup was terrible.

He and his right-wing pro-US Christian Democrat faction were consistently cheerleading for a military coup. Frei naively assumed that he would be installed as a "national unity" head of state, but Kissenger and co. already decided that "democracy" needed to go and that the military should run things directly as a testing ground for Chicago school economics and radical neo-liberalism generally.

[Judi Lynn]

15. You got there ahead of many of the rest of us! I never heard about this guy until this article.

Immediately wondered why Pinochet wanted him out of the picture.

It seems odder every year that Kissinger was given the Nobel Peace Prize.

http://www.oberlin.edu.nyud.net:8090/faculty/svolk/PinochetKissinger.jpg http://www.gwu.edu.nyud.net:8090/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB123/chile/kiss-pino.jpg