Four men arrested for Pinochet-era prison poisonings
Four men arrested for Pinochet-era prison poisonings
By Layne Weiss
Jan 24, 2014
Santiago - Authorities in Chile have arrested four ex-army officers for purportedly poisoning prisoners by adding botulinum toxin to their food. They are accused of murdering two men and attempting to murder five more.
It is believed that the men were experimenting with methods of killing Augusto Pinochet's opponents, BBC News reports.
The four men are already being investigated for their involvement in the 1982 death of ex-Chilean President Eduardo Frei Montalva.
At the time of his death, it was reported that President Montalva died due to complications from a hernia operation, but recent inquiries suggest he may have been poisoned.
Two of the accused in the poisoning case, retired general Dr. Eduardo Arriagada, and retired colonel Sergio Rosende, who now works as a veterinarian, are reported to have worked in a laboratory run by DINA, the National Intelligence Directorate, which was Mr. Pinochet's secret police force.
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U.S. President Nixon's Secretary of State, Henry Kissinger with Augusto Pinochet.
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Henry Kissinger and Chile’s 9/11/73
Posted on September 16, 2010 by Ka Frank
13 September 2010. A World to Win News Service.
On 10 September in Geneva Henry Kissinger was greeted by jeers of ?murderer? from over 100 demonstrators, mainly Chilean, as well as Argentines. The man who made the 11 September 1973 military coup in Chile possible, Kissinger had come to Switzerland to deliver the keynote speech on “Power shifts and security” at a meeting of the International Institute for Strategic Studies.
As National Security Adviser and Secretary of State for U.S. Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford, the list of Kissinger’s crimes is long. Although awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for negotiating the end of the Vietnam war, he had been a main architect of that war and a long-time advocate of using American troops and airpower to force Vietnam to give in to a political settlement acceptable to the U.S. To achieve that goal, he advocated spreading the war throughout Southeast Asia. He was behind the bombing that destroyed much of Cambodia (a campaign kept secret from an increasingly antiwar public in the U.S.) and the U.S. invasion of Cambodia in 1970 that sparked an unprecedented broadening of the antiwar movement.
The other crime with which his name will always be associated is the CIA-backed overthrow of the elected government of Salvador Allende in Chile. At that time, he told his colleagues, the emergence of possible challenge by the then Soviet Union to U.S. domination of Latin America was “too important” to let Chileans decide. “I don’t see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its people.”
Under Kissinger’s direction, the U.S. tried to block Allende’s assumption of the presidency, and then, when that failed, conducted three years of economic sabotage and political conspiracies until the Chilean army bombed and stormed the presidential palace and overthrew Allende. The military junta led by General Augusto Pinochet rounded up and killed thousands of Allende supporters and others. Pinochet’s brutal, U.S.-supported regime lasted for almost two decades.
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