Chile upholds conviction for dictatorship-era murders of Americans
Source: Agence France-Presse
Chile upholds conviction for dictatorship-era murders of Americans
By AFP 5 hours ago.
A judge upheld the murder convictions Saturday of a retired Chilean general for killing Americans Charles Horman and Frank Teruggi in the days after the country's 1973 military coup.
The Santiago Appeals Court also confirmed the sentence of seven years in prison for retired army brigadier general Pedro Espinoza, a court statement said.
Espinoza was already serving time for those and similar crimes at Punta Peuco prison, a special jail in Santiago for military staff convicted of human rights violations.
The court also reduced the compensation that Chile must pay the victims' families from $30,000 to about $20,000.
Read more: http://www.digitaljournal.com/news/world/chile-upholds-conviction-for-dictatorship-era-murders-of-americans/article/442982#ixzz3kvgOXTAd
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Brigadier General Pedro Espinoza [/center]
cosmicone
(11,014 posts)Judi Lynn
(160,682 posts)maybe the way the Honduran coup plotters kidnapped the elected Honduran President, took him, in his pajamas, blindfolded him, threw him on a plane, and dropped him at the Nicaraguan border.
Henry Kissinger is big on moves against people who have politics he doesn't like. He might get a kick out of this, getting to see the very country he steered through a bloody coup into a hellacious right-wing torture-happy, death-squad loving dictatorship Kissinger and his President helped into power.
Judi Lynn
(160,682 posts)Court: U.S. military spies had role leading to 1973 deaths of Americans in Chile
AP / July 1, 2014, 11:16 AM
SANTIAGO, Chile - A Chilean court said U.S. military intelligence services played a key role that led to the 1973 killings of two Americans in Chile in a case that inspired the Oscar-winning film "Missing."
A court ruling released late Monday said former U.S. Navy Capt. Ray E. Davis gave information to Chilean officials about journalist Charles Horman and student Frank Teruggi that led to their arrest and execution just days after the 1973 coup that brought Gen. Augusto Pinochet to power.
"The military intelligence services of the United States had a fundamental role in the creation of the murders of the two American citizens in 1973, providing Chilean military officers with the information that led to their deaths," the ruling by Judge Jorge Zepeda said. Zepeda also upheld the decision to charge retired Chilean army Col. Pedro Espinoza with the murders, and Rafael Gonzalez, a former civilian counterintelligence agent, as an accomplice in Horman's murder. The two Chileans and Davis had been indicted in 2011.
Davis commanded the U.S. Military Mission in Chile at the time of the Sept. 11, 1973, American-backed coup that ousted the democratically elected government of leftist President Salvador Allende. Davis was investigating Americans in Chile as part of a series of covert intelligence operations run out of the U.S. Embassy targeting those considered to be subversives or radicals, according to lawyer Sergio Corvalan, who represents Horman's widow.
More:
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/court-u-s-military-spies-had-role-leading-to-1973-deaths-of-americans-in-chile/
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Charles Horman, wife Joyce Horman
Charles Horman sent writing to The Nation, among others.
His Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Horman
Frank Terrugi, news photographer, on the left.
Frank Terrugi's Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Teruggi [/center]
leveymg
(36,418 posts)There's another thread running now on that one. Why do the killers of leftists almost never seem to be held accountable for murder in the West? See, http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1133&pid=11853
Judi Lynn
(160,682 posts)You most certainly have a point, and we all know it.
Thank you, so much, for posting the link. Shocking.