Peruvian dies after stepping on land mine at Chile border

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

Peruvian dies after stepping on land mine at Chile border
Feb 8, 4:34 PM EST

LIMA, Peru (AP) -- A Peruvian man was killed when he stepped on a land mine trying to cross the border illegally into Chile, authorities said Monday.

Peruvian police said the 27-year-old bled to death after the mine exploded late Sunday near a Peruvian border control post. He was identified as Francy Mamani Aquino.

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In 2012, a Peruvian taxi exploded in a minefield, killing at least one person in the same area. Authorities said the driver went off-road and entered a well-marked minefield in an apparent attempt to avoid border controls.

The Chilean dictatorship of Gen. Augusto Pinochet laid hundreds of thousands of mines along Chile's borders with Peru and Bolivia in the 1970s, saying it feared invasion.

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(US President Richard M Nixon and Sec. of State Henry Kissinger were completely in the military coup and death of socialist President Salvador Allende and the placement of bloody, sadistic dictator Augusto Pinochet.)

[jpak]

1. I encountered mine fields in Chile during Pinochet's time

Scary.

Even scarier was the company-sized army unit assembled in full combat gear in the town square on a national holiday.

I don't speak much Spanish, but I do know the word "junta" and that word repeated over and over again during the commanding officer's speech.

Kissinger is a war criminal.

yup

[MisterP]

2. three-way stalemate going on for a century now

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_the_Pacific
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atacama_border_dispute