Chile toughens sentences in 'Missing' killings of Americans

[Judi Lynn]

Chile toughens sentences in 'Missing' killings of Americans

Eva Vergara, Associated Press
Updated 4:37 pm, Thursday, July 21, 2016

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Chile's Supreme Court on Thursday lengthened the prison sentences of two former military officers convicted in the 1973 killing of two Americans during the early days of Gen. Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship.

In a unanimous ruling, the court sentenced retired Gen. Pedro Espinoza to 15 years, up from the seven ordered by the trial judge, and ex-Col. Rafael Gonzalez to three years instead of two.

Both were convicted in 2015 in the deaths of documentary filmmaker Charles Horman and university student Frank Teruggi, who were detained days after the coup that put Pinochet in power.

Horman's bullet-riddled body was later admitted to a morgue as a "John Doe." Teruggi's corpse was left in a Santiago street.

http://www.chron.com/news/crime/article/Chile-toughens-sentences-in-Missing-killings-of-8401514.php

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Horman, left, Terrugi, right



General Pedro Espinoza , left, Col. Rafael Gonzalez, right



General Pedro Espinoza, right-hand man of deadly DINA Manuel Contreras [/center]

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1. Kowtowing to Dow

Looking up something else I ran across this oldie but goodie...

April 18, 2005
Dow Chemical Buys Silence in Michigan

by Brian McKenna

...Dow is surely not kidding with its ability to buy silence (i.e. the company that exists today). Dow even dabbles in public health and journalism. In 1999 Hillsdale College received $500,000 for the Herbert H. Dow II Program in American Journalism. It is “devoted to the restoration of ethical, high-minded journalism standards and to the reformation of our cultural, political, and social practices.” That year the Dow Program sponsored Richard Lowry, Editor-in- Chief of the National Review, as a guest speaker. In his speech, titled “The High Priests of Journalism Truth, Morality, and the Media,” Lowry criticized American journalism for “reinforcing the radical side in America’s culture wars.”

Not likely to be recruited to speak is Linda Hunt who informs us that in her excellent 1991 book, “Secret Agenda,” that in 1951 Dow hired Otto Ambros, the Nazi war criminal convicted at Nuremberg for slavery and mass murder in the killing of thousands of Jews with nerve gas.

Dow’s close relationships with defacto state terrorists is also less likely to see curricula time at Hillsdale. [font color=darkred]In 1973 Dow was first company to receive a phone call from Pinochet’s military[/font] in 1973, according to Brandt, soon after his forces assassinated democratically elected Chilean President Salvador Allende, toppling his government, asking Dow to come back, which Dow “readily accepted” (a Dow official saluting the economic “miracle” of Pinochet).

One wonders how Hillsdale or PBS for that matter would explore the 1941 charge by the U.S. Justice Department that Dow conspired with the Nazi’s I.F. Farben to hold down magnesium production in the United States in the prewar era (Dow later pleaded nolo contendere)...

http://www.counterpunch.org/2005/04/18/dow-chemical-buys-silence-in-michigan/

4 Things to Remember About Chile's 1973 Coup

[Judi Lynn]

2. Wow. Did not know this ugly info. about Pinochet and his need for more Dow in Chile.

With that nasty act, he added one more biggie, greedy, destructive US corporation operating in the country which elected Salvador Allende. It appears he loved the ones which hated the masses the most.

Looks as he and the group thought at Dow had a lot in common: fascists. I had never heard this information until seeing the article you shared:

Dow hired Otto Ambros, the Nazi war criminal convicted at Nuremberg for slavery and mass murder in the killing of thousands of Jews with nerve gas.

Screamingly vicious people.

Sure glad to read your post. It really is educational, bearing info. corporate "news" media would love to keep buried!