Excerpt: "Chile's Supreme court sentenced 33 former intelligence agents of Augusto Pinochet dictatorship for the enforced disappearances of five communist activists in 1987 who were kidnapped, drugged and dumped out to sea."
Archive photo of anti-Pinochet protesters during a march outside of the country's Supreme Court in Santiago, Chile. (photo: EFE)
Chile Sentences 33 Pinochet-Era Agents for Disappearing Communists
23 March 17
After the 1973 U.S-backed coup that brought Pinochet to power, tens of thousands were murdered, tortured and disappeared.
hile's Supreme court sentenced 33 former intelligence agents of Augusto Pinochet dictatorship for the enforced disappearances of five communist activists in 1987 who were kidnapped, drugged and dumped out to sea.
The court sentenced the defendants to between three and 15 years in prison for the abduction and disappearance of the five members of the Manuel Rodriguez Patriot Front, the militant wing of the country's Communist Party.
The longest sentences were given to the former head of the National Information Center, General Hugo Salas Wenzel, and Major Alvaro Corbalan Castilla, both of whom will spend 15 years behind bars.
21 other officials were sentenced to 10 years in prison for their involvement in the event.
The Supreme Court also ruled that the families of the victims will receive compensation from the state amounting to US$575,000 for the families of the victims.
The victims, Julian Pena Maltes, Alejandro Pinochet Arenas, Manuel Sepulveda Sanchez, Gonzalo Fuenzalida Navarrete and Julio Mu�oz Otarola, were disappeared after being arrested by agents in retaliation for the kidnapping of Colonel Carlos Carreno in 1987.
During former President Sebastian Pi�era's candidacy launch on Tuesday at the National Museum of Natural History, small groups shouted slogans in favor of the former dictator on several occasions, sparking outrage on social media. Pi�era later said he did not support the chants.
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Hint: if Trump/Burr can have their own police force, so can the citizens of Flint, Detroit...
Elections MUST be held in full public view "on the same day." Sorry about that Covid thing. wear a mask. With enough voting place, a hand count can be completed in time for the "networks" to have their story, so we can go to sleep... or not.
knocking down statues costs us votes.
If what palast says is true than putting all of your energy into the million hours of Russia gate is a mistake that needs to be acknowledged.
All of your trump-hating would have been unnecessary because he never would have set foot in the White House if the Democratic party had demanded the recount. Hey, you want someone to blame blame Hillary herself and the Democratic party itself and you might want to ask them why they did not want to win.
You are right. The Russiagate was a total mistake, a distraction from the real issues we needed to be talking about, and a strategy to blame Trump for something he did not actually participate in.
Yes reality-based Palast never a Russia conspiretalist. Because I have followed him for near 20 years, originally Democracy NOW and bought his books, I have shouted at unregenative Democrats: it is not NaderGreensLeft istsRussians (whatever current scapegoat) it is electorial cheating initiated and allowed to proliferate by both parties and the Supreme Court.
And ignored by most political discussion -- so kudos to RSN.
The Don doesn't need to directly participate in anything for it to happen.
And why are the county registrars still allowed to confuse voters with cross-over ballots, absentee ballots or instructing volunteers to "not say anything" forcing voters to "ask" for the right ballot if they're lucky enough to know better? What happened to exit polls? Why are antique machines even allowed anymore? The country would riot if the Super Bowl was broadcast on unreliable and antique machinery.
Observing the count (during the election) was a joke. Sample ballots were drawn from piles in a private room out of public view.
The only thing about voting that's changed is that the Republicans have made it harder and the Democrats have done nothing but sit back and count their Wall St. cash because they don't loose no matter who's in the Oval. It's the same corporate party.
Only people like Greg who's doing the heavy lifting doing the research to educate the public will bring about any change.
Voting matters in that it serves as a legitimate cover for whoever gets installed and is why we need to change it.
By Greg Palast, Reader Supported News
25 July 20
"This little chapter from How Trump Stole 2020 tells you how they did it in 2016 and can do it again in 2020:"
whereas of 2018 michigan has a dem secretary of state - (attorneys general and governor too)
robbee declares -
these outrages could not have happened, unless abetted by repukes, up and down the line
this will not happen again in 2020 - not in my state
note that the refusal to count votes in michigan happened under a repuke secretary of state (attorneys general and governor too)
this year there's a new sheriff in michigan - and she's all dem!
ps - greg is also an expert on cross-check - and who knows how many MILLIONS OF votes by folks with latino names? - repute secretaries of state threw out? destroyed? - no record kept?
voting in america is a shell game, expressly approved by sbcouts
but it's the only game we have
despair is no political strategy
V O T E !
pps - ifeuille's great idea is a federal mail-in voting rights law, backed by a one-day army of onsite federal inspectors at each local polling site? if i have that right? - i would add inspectors, at each s o s office
ppps - meanwhile we man polling sites with independent poll watchers!
What this shows is that repubicans have become masters of this technique, especially challenging votes that don't go their way. They also have zip coded voter lists so they car rule out places like east Detroit.
And the Democrats always behave the same way. They just throw their hands up in the air and make some profound expression like "darn it." And then they move on to collecting cash from their big donors -- who they don't know also backed the republican side.
The billionaire donors win at this game. They get the candidates they want. Democrat party bosses get a lot of money. Republicans get the elected offices and the bills they want passed. Everyone is happy. The american people get screwed -- again, and again, and again.
There were/are a bunch of computer experts some of whom came out of Princeton, who have been trying for years to put out the word about how easy it is to hack e-voting.
a word of warning though. Trump-hate of mail-in vote, is "please don' throw me in dat brier patch Br'er Fox. Please. Please.
I don't know if there has ever been mail-in voting fraud, but there easily could be, the point is that it is not transparent.
do we really need to get the television stations the results before midnight at the expense of never knowing who "really' won?
Accuracy is all that matters, not speed. It's the difference between a legitimate election and an illegitimate one.
The Republicans suppress the minority voters in the general election. The Democrats suppressed the (young) Bernie voters in the primaries.