40 years after Pinochet coup, thousands march for rights in Chile

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Agence France-Presse

40 years after Pinochet coup, thousands march for rights in Chile
SANTIAGO - Agence France-Presse
September/09/2013

Thousands of Chileans marched for human rights Sept. 7 on the 40th anniversary of the coup that brought dictator Augusto Pinochet to power.

Some of the 60,000 carried pictures of their kin who were abducted or killed by the state and held signs with slogans such as "40 years after the coup, nobody and no one has been forgotten." After a two-hour march, one group of hooded demonstrators set up barricades and squared off with police, some of whom were hit with stones and sticks. Police subdued the protestors with tear gas and water cannons.

The march ended at a cemetery with a memorial to the victims of Pinochet's Cold War regime.

"Forty years on, we are still demanding truth and justice. We won't rest until we find out what happened to our loved ones who were arrested and went missing" never to return, said Lorena Pizarro, leader of a relatives' rights group.

September 11 is the anniversary of the day in 1973 when air force planes bombed the presidential palace. Salvador Allende, an elected socialist president, committed suicide rather than be captured.

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[Joe Shlabotnik]

1. The people united will never be defeated

[pampango]

2. Thousands march for human rights in Chile on 40th anniversary of Augusto Pinochet coup that brought

dictator Augusto Pinochet to power.

Some of the 60,000 carried pictures of their kin who were abducted or killed by the state and held signs with slogans such as "40 years after the coup, nobody and no one has been forgotten."

After a two-hour march, one group of hooded demonstrators set up barricades and squared off with police, some of whom were hit with stones and sticks. Police subdued the protesters with tear gas and water cannons.

The march ended at a cemetery with a memorial to the victims of Pinochet's Cold War regime.

"Forty years on, we are still demanding truth and justice. We won't rest until we find out what happened to our loved ones who were arrested and went missing" never to return, said Lorena Pizarro, leader of a relatives' rights group.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/southamerica/chile/10295315/Thousands-march-for-human-rights-in-Chile-on-40th-anniversary-of-Augusto-Pinochet-coup.html

"Thousands march for human rights". Some concepts are the same everywhere in the world. This is great to see.

[Ghost Dog]

3. Never forget, Amanda:

[Judi Lynn]

4. "Make the Economy Scream": Secret Documents Show Nixon, Kissinger Role Backing 1973 Chile Coup

Tuesday, September 10, 2013
"Make the Economy Scream": Secret Documents Show Nixon, Kissinger Role Backing 1973 Chile Coup

Video at link.

We continue our coverage of the 40th anniversary of the overthrow of Chilean President Salvador Allende with a look at the critical U.S. role under President Richard Nixon and his National Security Advisor, Henry Kissinger. Peter Kornbluh, who spearheaded the effort to declassify more than 20,000 secret documents that revealed the role of the CIA and the White House in the Chilean coup, discusses how Nixon and Kissinger backed the Chilean military’s ouster of Allende and then offered critical support as it committed atrocities to cement its newfound rule. Kornbluh is author of the newly updated book, "The Pinochet File: A Declassified Dossier on Atrocity and Accountability," and director of the Chile Documentation Project at the National Security Archive. In 1970, the CIA’s deputy director of plans wrote in a secret memo: "It is firm and continuing policy that Allende be overthrown by a coup... It is imperative that these actions be implemented clandestinely and securely so that the USG (the U.S. government) and American hand be well hidden." That same year President Nixon ordered the CIA to "make the economy scream" in Chile to "prevent Allende from coming to power or to unseat him," We’re also joined by Juan Garcés, a former personal advisor to Allende who later led the successful legal effort to arrest and prosecute coup leader Augusto Pinochet.

http://www.democracynow.org/2013/9/10/40_years_after_chiles_9_11

[Judi Lynn]

5. Was U.S. Journalist Charles Horman Killed by Chile’s Coup Regime With Aid of His Own Government?

Monday, September 9, 2013

Was U.S. Journalist Charles Horman Killed by Chile’s Coup Regime With Aid of His Own Government?

As we continue our look at the 40th anniversary of the U.S.-backed military coup in Chile and the ongoing efforts by the loved ones of its victims to seek justice, we turn to the case of Charles Horman. A 31-year-old American journalist and filmmaker, Horman was in Chile during the coup and wrote about U.S. involvement in overthrowing the democratically elected president, Salvador Allende. Shortly after, he was abducted by Chilean soldiers and later killed. Horman’s story was told in the 1982 Oscar-nominated film, "Missing," which follows his father, Edmund Horman, going to Chile to search for his son. We’re joined by Charles Horman’s widow, Joyce Horman, who filed a criminal suit against Pinochet for his role in her husband’s death, and established the Charles Horman Truth Project to support ongoing investigations into human rights violations during Pinochet’s regime. We’re also joined by Peter Weiss, vice president of the board of the Center for Constitutional Rights, who represented the Horman family in their case against Kissinger and others for Charles Horman’s death.

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Transcript:
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http://www.democracynow.org/2013/9/9/was_us_journalist_charles_horman_killed

[Judi Lynn]

6. Carmen Quintana: Set on fire by Pinochet's soldiers

9 September 2013 Last updated at 19:41 ET

Carmen Quintana: Set on fire by Pinochet's soldiers

By Mike Lanchin
BBC World Service


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Carmen Quintana before (left) and after the attack (right)[/font]

Forty years ago, Gen Augusto Pinochet seized power in Chile - 17 years of military rule followed, during which thousands of people were tortured or killed. One woman who was doused with kerosene and set on fire, survived to tell the tale.

Carmen Quintana has one lasting image from the day, 27 years ago, when she and another young Chilean student were attacked, and set alight by soldiers during an anti-government protest.

"I just looked down at my blackened hands and at my burning clothes, and I suddenly saw myself in flames," she says.

It was 2 July 1986, the first of two days of nationwide strikes in Chile against Augusto Pinochet's rule.

Eighteen-year-old Carmen was a serious young woman with thick bushy hair, from a left-wing family fiercely opposed to the Pinochet regime. From an early age she had gone with her parents on anti-government demonstrations - and had witnessed first-hand the repression meted out by the feared Carabineros, Pinochet's jackbooted police.

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-24014543