U.S. FAILS TO PRESS CHILE ON BORIS WEISFEILER CASE

[Judi Lynn]

U.S. FAILS TO PRESS CHILE ON BORIS WEISFEILER CASE
Monday, 20 July 2009
Sister Of Disappeared U.S. Citizen Says White House Has Let Her Down

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Boris Weisfeiler
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Olga Weisfeiler, who has been fighting to learn the truth of her brother Boris’s disappearance in Chile 25 years ago, this week decried the lack of interest and support given her by U.S. officials.

Despite evidence that Weisfeiler - a University of Pennsylvania mathematics professor vacationing in Chile - was arrested by Augusto Pinochet’s military and brought to a torture center, his case has yet to be declared a human rights violation by Chile’s courts or government.

Ms. Weisfeiler told The Santiago Times over the weekend that within the past four months each of the United States’ foremost three executives – Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Vice President Joe Biden, and President Barack Obama – has met with Chilean President Michelle Bachelet, yet none expressed concern about the Weisfeiler case to Bachelet.

Ms. Weisfeiler attributed the investigation’s lack of progress to a failure in Chile’s judicial system and has been counting on U.S. aid to discover what happened to her brother, the sole U.S. citizen to disappear in Chile during the Pinochet era. During the 17-year Pinochet regime more than 1,100 individuals were “disappeared” by state security forces fighting leftist “terrorism.”

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Two years after Weisfeiler’s disappearance, an informant known only as “Daniel” told U.S. embassy officials that he had been a member of a military patrol that arrested Weisfeiler in 1985 and brought him to Colonia Dignidad, a secretive German colony founded in the 1960s by former Nazi Paul Schafer and used as a torture center during the Pinochet era.

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Wikipedia, Paul Schaeffer, former Nazi leader of Colonia Dignidad, friend of Augusto Pinochet:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Sch%C3%A4fer

The Torture Colony
http://www.theamericanscholar.org/the-torture-colony/

Last Updated: Friday, 11 March, 2005, 20:16 GMT
Secrets of ex-Nazi's Chilean fiefdom
By Becky Branford
BBC News
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4340591.stm

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