Lawyers for former Chilean President Augusto Pinochet are fighting a court ruling that he is fit to stand trial for alleged human rights abuses.
They scored a minor initial victory when an order to place the 89-year-old under house arrest was suspended.
Victims’ families celebrated as Judge Juan Guzman’s ruling brought him a step closer to trial on charges of murder and kidnapping during the 1970s.
But Gen Pinochet’s lawyers say he is being persecuted.
They are now appealing (...)
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Lawyers battle over Pinochet fate
15 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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Venezuelan Police Officers Accuse Police Chiefs of Ordering them to Shoot at Demonstrators during Co
15 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
by Sarah Wagner
Caracas metropolitan police officers say they were ordered to fire at Chavista demonstrators on the day of the coup against President Chavez, on April 11, 2002 at Puente Llaguno. The four officers who testified before the Fourth Court of Aragua coincided in their accusations against the ex-directors of the metropolitan police, Henry Vivas and Lázaro Forero.
The Fourth Court of Aragua is currently investigating the actions of Henry Vivas, the former Caracas Metropolitan (...) -
Open letter to President Hugo Chavez from Iranian Workers’ Solidarity Network
29 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
Mr Hugo Rafael Chavez Frias,
President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela
Dear Mr President:
We hear the news about your fourth trip to Iran with some concern. We believe that the Iranian regime is using your name and popularity among the Latin American masses, and progressive and anti-globalisation activists throughout the world, to falsely present a similar image for itself.
Your Excellency, this regime is fundamentally different from your government which enjoys popular (...) -
CNN: Chile calls off Bush banquet after security dispute
21 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
47 commentsSunday, November 21, 2004 Posted: 12:57 PM EST (1757 GMT)
SANTIAGO, Chile (CNN) — Plans for a state dinner for President Bush at Chile’s presidential palace were scratched Sunday after the United States insisted on security measures that Chile called unacceptable.
The change came a day after Chilean security guards temporarily blocked one of Bush’s Secret Service agents from entering an official dinner.
For the Sunday event, the Secret Service insisted all guests — totaling more than (...) -
Venezuelan State Prosecutor Danilo Anderson assassinated in cold blood in two-bomb explosion...
20 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
2 commentsVenezuelan State Prosecutor Danilo Anderson assassinated in cold blood in two-bomb explosion in Los Chaguaramos/Santa Monica
State Political & Security (DISIP) agents and CICPC detectives are seeking to determine if the victim of an jeep which was blown to smithereens by two bombs in the Los Chaguaramos/Santa Monica suburb of Caracas around midnight last night could be that of State Prosecutor Danilo Anderson.
At this time, the indications are that the driver’s body is indeed (...) -
Chilean police arrest 120 demonstrators against globalization, Bush
18 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
5 commentsAround 120 protesters were arrested here Wednesday after they crashed with police in a rally against globalization and US President George W. Bush, who will arrive here for Saturday’s economic leaders meeting of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC).
Some 500 protesters, most of them from university and middle school, marched along the main Alameda street in downtown Santiago,chanting slogans against globalization and President Bush.
The police used tear gas to disperse (...) -
Chile: Pinochet crimes to be exposed for the first time
16 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
4 commentsSocialist President Ricardo Lagos is reviewing an official report containing over 35,000 testimonials of tortures
by Hernan Etchaleco
Shortly after Chile’s army acknowledged that tortures and political assassinations during Augusto Pinochet’s right-wing dictatorship were institutional, not excesses of a few individuals, country’s Socialist President Ricardo Lagos received on Wednesday a massive official report containing 35,000 testimonials of abuses providing details of such crimes. (...) -
“Bolivarian” Pro-Chavez Forces Sweep Regional Vote in Venezuela
2 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
by Gregory Wilpert
Caracas. Preliminary results of the National Electoral Council (CNE), which were presented to Venezuela at about 1am of November 1st, indicate that pro-Chavez forces won at least 18 of the country’s 22 state governorships. In several cases the vote was still to close to call. In others, where the CNE indicated that Chavez supporters had won, opposition candidates declared that the CNE results were wrong and that they had won.
In one of the most important and (...) -
Venezuela’s elections: defeat for the opposition, advance for the Bolivarians
2 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
by Jorge Martin
Hands Off Venezuela Campaign Jorge Martin writes: Early results of Venezuela’s regional and council elections, announced at 12.40 a.m. by the National Elections Council (CNE), confirm the predictions of yet another election victory for Chavez’ Bolivarian movement ... the ninth in just six years.
Although these results are still provisional, and in some cases they are based on just above 50% of the counted votes, they seem to indicate a clear victory for Bolivarian (...) -
Uruguay’s Left Makes History by Winning Presidential Vote
1 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
By LARRY ROHTER
MONTEVIDEO, Tabaré Vázquez, a Socialist doctor running as the candidate of an opposition coalition that includes former guerrillas, narrowly triumphed Sunday in the presidential election, bringing the left to power for the first time in this South American country. The victory by the coalition, known as the Progressive-Encounter-Broad-FrontNew-Majority, whose largest faction consists of Tupamaro guerrillas turned politicians, strengthens a trend throughout the (...)