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BESIEGED BY CRIMINAL PROSECUTIONS, LIVING IN IMPUNITY, DICTATOR DIES ON HUMAN RIGHTS DAY 11 December 2006 General Augusto Pinochet, head of the Chilean armed forces, leader of the coup of 11 September 1973, that toppled the government and ended the life of socialist president Salvador Allende, has died. For 17 years, he ruled Chile with an iron fist, nationalized key industries and directed a campaign of kidnap, torture and murder against thousands of dissidents. [Full Story] EX-DICTADOR DE CHILE, AUGUSTO PINOCHET, MUERE A LOS 91 Ha muerto Augusto Pinochet, general de las fuerzas armadas chilenas que el 11 de septiembre del 1973 encabezó un golpe de estado que acabó con la vida y el gobierno elegido del socialista Salvador Allende. Durante 17 años, mandó con mano dura, nacionalizó industrias claves y lideró una campaña de secuestro, tortura y asesinato de miles de disidentes. [Texto completo] EX-DICTADOR CHILENO AUGUSTO PINOCHET INTERROGADO POR LAS TORTURAS DE LA VILLA GRIMALDI Cuando Augusto Pinochet lideró el golpe de estado del 11 de septiembre, 1973, que acabó con la vida del presidente Salvador Allende, instituyó un régimen militar que comenzó a detener, desaparecer y torturar a la oposición casi de inmediato. Miles de personas desaparecieron, y sólo ahora, que se le ha quitado el fuero judicial, contra la persecución por crímenes de estado, Pinochet se ve obligado a contestar las preguntas de la ciudadanía y las exigencias de la humanidad. [Texto completo] HA FALLECIDO EL POETA CHILENO GONZALO MILLÁN Conocí a Gonzalo Millán, o para mayor precisión, la poesía de Gonzalo Millán en una antología publicada por el Grupo Trilce de Valdivia; luego creo haber leído otros poemas suyos en una antología de poesía chilena hecha por Alfonso Calderón y publicado por Editorial Universitaria. Año de edición y demás datos no importan al tema de esta nota. Lo cierto es que en ambas antologías, Gonzalo era el último de todos, es decir, el más joven, el más reciente de los poetas que empezaban a mostrarse en la vitrina nacional. El más joven de todos, pero con un lenguaje y una poesía en la que ya podía verse el poeta que llegaría a ser. [Texto completo] BACHELET DISMISSES POLICE COMMANDER FOR VIOLENT CRACKDOWN Michelle Bachelet's government has tried to bridge the divide between seizing a unique opportunity to increase spending due to the copper boom and demonstrating the fiscal responsibility she has promised will allow her government to build long-term reforms into Chilean social policy. But her $130 million spending plan does not include a major education-spending increase. High school students have been organizing to call for nationwide increases, saying only with better education is an egalitarian democracy truly possible. [Full Story] BACHELET OUTLINES BROAD NEW SOCIAL SPENDING, BACKED BY STATE COPPER PROFITS Michelle Bachelet, Chile's first female president, has faced opportunity, temptation and regional economic upheaval, and she is showing signs of following the wisest course, while staying faithful to her pledges. In her first state of the nation address, the new president has said she will use windfall state profits from the inflated copper markets to fund social programs, but without relaxing her policy of strict fiscal discipline. [Full Story] BACHELET TAKES OFFICE, CHILE'S FIRST WOMAN HEAD OF STATE Michelle Bachelet, winner of Chile's recent presidential election, has been sworn in and has taken power as the nation's first woman president. She inherits the economic legacy of fellow socialist, outgoing pres. Ricardo Lagos, who leaves surpluses in government revenue, a rapidly expanding economy and a well-functioning balance between free market policies and expansive social programs. [Full Story] CHILE ELECTS FIRST FEMALE PRESIDENT Michelle Bachelet has a long and turbulent political biography. She and her mother were kidnapped and tortured by the Pinochet government, after her father was murdered for his political affiliation with the Allende government. They were forced into exile by the military regime and Bachelet has worked to restore democratic principles to Chilean government. Like Ricardo Lagos before her, she is a moderate socialist, intent upon leading Chile's governing center-left coalition, while continuing free-market policies, evening the wealth divide. [Full Story] SUMMIT OF THE AMERICAS HIGHTLIGHTS DIVISIONS The summit ended today with some headway for US plans for the Free Trade Area of the Americas. A deadline for 1 January 2005 was set for implementation of the plan. Leaders from the two largest economies in South America, however, Argentina and Brasil, have opposed the agreement, saying it will increase poverty and deprivation in their countries. The US has pursued bilateral free trade agreements with individual countries throughout the hemisphere, in order to lay the framework for the controversial FTAA. Another sensitive issue was the fingerprinting of Latin American nationals entering the US. President Bush won approval from México's President Vicent Fox for his proposed visiting worker program. [For more: ABC] FTAA OBSTACLES SHOW AT MIAMI MINISTERIAL MEETING The United States wants to fashion a Free Trade Area of the Americas agreement which is comprehensive, hemispheric and lasting. The public in many countries is increasingly skeptical about the benefits of such an agreement. Agricultural subsidies in developed countries can pose significant barriers to agricultural prosperity in developing nations. Argentina and Brazil in particular demand that there be an arrangement through which countries adversely affected by such policies would receive compensation or special consideration in bilateral agreements. [Full Story] LATIN AMERICA STRUGGLING BEHIND THE VEIL The Center for Economic and Policy Research has published a study of economic trends in Latin America during the time of liberalized trade policy. Their research determined that growth has been hampered by liberalized trade policies which favor wealthy nations. The study stems from concerns that slow growth in the first years of this century may mirror trends from the 1980's, known to analysts of Latin American economics as "the lost decade". Overall Latin American economic growth in the 1980's languished at -0.3%, marking a decline in prosperity and in GDP. [Full Story] |
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