Chile: Amid angry protests, rightists honor Pinochet
Wednesday, June 13th, 2012
((El Clarín photo))
[Translations of two articles, the first by the Spanish news agency Efe as published in El Mostrador on June 9, the second from El Clarín for June 12. See originals here and here.]
Homage to Pinochet uncovers support for the dictatorship among influential groups
The homage to Augusto Pinochet planned for this Sunday reveals the support that a minority in Chilean society, but a significant and influential group, continues giving the dictatorship, whose crimes they minimize in favor of an institutional and economic structure that continues in effect.
Just five years after the death of the dictator, under whose rule, from 1973 to 1990, 3,200 people were killed and 38,000 suffered torture or political prison, two little known organizations have organized this event in a theater in the capital. (more…)