Chile
Socialist Party candidate narrowly defeats ex-Pinochet official in Chilean presidential poll
By Mauricio Saavedra, January 19, 2000
Socialist Party (PS) leader Richard Lagos, the candidate for the ruling coalition in Chile, narrowly defeated Joaquin Lavin in the second round run-off of the country's presidential elections on Sunda...
Examining physician suggests British home secretary misled Parliament in bid to release Pinochet
By Richard Tyler, January 18, 2000
According to the Observer newspaper, British Home Secretary Jack Straw may have misled members of Parliament when he told them that doctors had “unanimously and unequivocally” found former...
Pinochet can go free, says Britain's Home Secretary
By Chris Marsden, January 13, 2000
Britain's Home Secretary Jack Straw has signalled his intention to halt extradition proceedings against ex-Chilean dictator General Augusto Pinochet. The 84-year-old Pinochet will then be free to retu...
Washington and the Pinochet coup in Chile
Declassified documents confirm US role in 1973 death of Charles Horman
By Bill Vann, October 26, 1999
More than a quarter century after the execution in Chile of Charles Horman, an American freelance journalist, Washington has released a document admitting that US intelligence agents played a role in ...
Tensions mounts in Chile after Britain rejects call for Pinochet's immediate release
By Vicky Short, October 19, 1999
The Chilean government responded to the October 8 decision by Bow Street Magistrates Court Judge Ronald Bartle to allow former dictator Augusto Pinochet to be extradited to Spain by once more appealin...
What the Pinochet affair shows about Britain
By Chris Marsden and Julie Hyland, January 9, 1999
When lawyers representing the former Chilean dictator, General Augusto Pinochet, return to the House of Lords on January 18, seeking to uphold the October 28 High Court verdict granting him "sovereign...
