Prats traveling in a replica of the car where his grandfather died after an attack

[Judi Lynn]

This is a google translation of an article published by Spanish news agency EFE:

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Prats traveling in a replica of the car where his grandfather died after an attack
By Agencia EFE - 13 hours ago

Santiago de Chile, 29 sep ( EFE ) .- Francisco Cuadrado , grandson of Gen. Carlos Prats and his wife Sofia Cuthbert, killed in his car 36 years ago , will depart from Buenos Aires after midnight due to the Chilean capital , in a replica Fiat 125 a gray color , similar to the attack. That was the particular vehicle model of the former commander in chief of the army with which he went into forced exile on September 15, 1973 after the military uprising , which he placed in power by dictator Augusto Pinochet ( 1973-1990).

Prats and his wife were killed at 2340 local time ( 03.40 GMT) on September 29, 1974 by a bomb placed in his vehicle, an operation mounted by the National Intelligence Directorate (DINA ) , the formidable repressive apparatus dictatorship. The attack took Pinochet 's approval , as established in different ways in criminal investigations in Argentina and Chile.

In heading from the capital Buenos Aires , the grandson of Prats , a visual artist , will be joined by Chileans living in Argentina's capital and organizations that made an act of remembrance. Palomo explained , the original vehicle with severe damage was a result of the explosion, which made it impossible to rebuild.

The car that travels the grandson of the murdered general is reconstituted from a replica model of equal -seventies , which has the same gray color to which Francis called "gray Soldier . "

To travel the 1,500 miles between the two capitals , Palomo follow the route Francisco Buenos Aires , Junín , Rufino , Mercedes , San Luis , Mendoza and Potrerillos. Will enter Chile by the same tunnel that connects Las Cuevas ( Argentina) Caracoles ( Chile) , by which the September 15, 1973 went into exile who was also vice president of the republic.

day General Prats was taken from Santiago to the town of Portillo on board the Puma helicopter of dictator Augusto Pinochet, driven by their favorite driver , Antonio Palomo Contreras. There he waited for the driver who was his general officer, the officer Germain Lopez, who had driven up there to the "gray soldier " , in which Gen. Prats began his trip to Argentina accompanied by an official trans .

Palomo was one of the Puma helicopter pilots in which , on the south and north, the squadron moved to the Caravan of Death between September and October 1973 , killing more than one hundred political prisoners in several cities.

Palomo at the border is scheduled for noon on Saturday October 2 , where the grandson of Prats will be expected by friends and family who accompany him on the descent towards Santiago.

Prats -Cuthbert family are now trying to locate the officer Germain Lopez, to find out details of that day that so far remain unknown.

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