Pinochet to testify in Jara case

[seemslikeadream]

Víctor Jara's music was popular throughout South America
A Chilean judge has ordered former dictator Augusto Pinochet to testify in writing in the murder case of Chilean singer and composer Victor Jara.
Mr Jara was allegedly tortured and killed shortly after the military coup in September 1973 in a sports stadium, in the capital, Santiago.

Prosecutors hope to determine who was in charge of the stadium at the time.

The judge also ordered a number of former army generals to provide testimony concerning the case.

'He kept singing'
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[u2spirit]

1. Pinochet will never testify

This whole Jara thing makes me want to cry every time I think about it. When U2 was in Santiago on their Popmart tour in 98, Bono dedicated an acoustic version of Sunday Bloody Sunday to both Jara brothers. It was very moving. That concert actually is one of U2's all time best.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

5. is thatthe same one

where he brought the family members of Pinochet's victims on stage during "Mothers of the Disappeared"? The clip I saw was pretty moving.

[gratuitous]

2. The judge ordered Pinochet to provide testimony

But that's a far cry from Pinochet actually appearing in court, being examined and cross-examined. And I seriously doubt that it's going to happen.

Pinochet's place in Hell next to Franco is all ready, however.

[Zynx]

3. Pinochet actually idolized Franco.

I read that somewhere recently. I can't imagine somebody looking at Franco and saying, "I want to be just like him!". It would take a sick person to think that. *Looks at Pinochet* Well, I guess it makes sense now. I can't believe that the right-wingers still idolize Pinochet.

[seemslikeadream]

4. They dance alone

Why are there women here dancing on their own?
Why is there this sadness in their eyes?
Why are the soldiers here
Their faces fixed like stone?
I can't see what it is that they dispise
They're dancing with the missing
They're dancing with the dead
They dance with the invisible ones
Their anguish is unsaid
They're dancing with their fathers
They're dancing with their sons
They're dancing with their husbands
They dance alone They dance alone

It's the only form of protest they're allowed
I've seen their silent faces scream so loud
If they were to speak these words they'd go missing too
Another woman on a torture table what else can they do
They're dancing with the missing
They're dancing with the dead
They dance with the invisible ones
Their anguish is unsaid
They're dancing with their fathers
They're dancing with their sons
They're dancing with their husbands
They dance alone They dance alone

One day we'll dance on their graves
One day we'll sing our freedom
One day we'll laugh in our joy
And we'll dance
One day we'll dance on their graves
One day we'll sing our freedom
One day we'll laugh in our joy
And we'll dance

Ellas danzan con los desaparecidos
Ellas danzan con los muertos
Ellas danzan con amores invisibles
Ellas danzan con silenciosa angustia
Danzan con sus pardres
Danzan con sus hijos
Danzan con sus esposos
Ellas danzan solas
Danzan solas

Hey Mr. Pinochet
You've sown a bitter crop
It's foreign money that supports you
One day the money's going to stop
No wages for your torturers
No budget for your guns
Can you think of your own mother
Dancin' with her invisible son
They're dancing with the missing
They're dancing with the dead
They dance with the invisible ones
They're anguish is unsaid
They're dancing with their fathers
They're dancing with their sons
They're dancing with their husbands
They dance alone

sting


September 11 means EVERYTHING to Chileans, as well.



From the film The Battle of Chile(First Run/Icarus Films)

Chile and the United States:
Declassified Documents Relating to the Military Coup, September 11, 1973

by Peter Kornbluh

September 11, 1998 marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the military coup led by General Augusto Pinochet. The violent overthrow of the democratically-elected Popular Unity government of Salvador Allende changed the course of the country that Chilean poet Pablo Neruda described as "a long petal of sea, wine and snow"; because of CIA covert intervention in Chile, and the repressive character of General Pinochet's rule, the coup became the most notorious military takeover in the annals of Latin American history.

Revelations that President Richard Nixon had ordered the CIA to "make the economy scream" in Chile to "prevent Allende from coming to power or to unseat him," prompted a major scandal in the mid-1970s, and a major investigation by the U.S. Senate. Since the coup, however, few U.S. documents relating to Chile have been actually declassified- -until recently. Through Freedom of Information Act requests, and other avenues of declassification, the National Security Archive has been able to compile a collection of declassified records that shed light on events in Chile between 1970 and 1976. These documents include:

** Cables written by U.S. Ambassador Edward Korry after Allende's election, detailing conversations with President Eduardo Frei on how to block the president-elect from being inaugurated. The cables contain detailed descriptions and opinions on the various political forces in Chile, including the Chilean military, the Christian Democrat Party, and the U.S. business community.
** CIA memoranda and reports on "Project FUBELT"--the codename for covert operations to promote a military coup and undermine Allende's government. The documents, including minutes of meetings between Henry Kissinger and CIA officials, CIA cables to its Santiago station, and summaries of covert action in 1970, provide a clear paper trail to the decisions and operations against Allende's government
** National Security Council strategy papers which record efforts to "destabilize" Chile economically, and isolate Allende's government diplomatically, between 1970 and 1973.
** State Department and NSC memoranda and cables after the coup, providing evidence of human rights atrocities under the new military regime led by General Pinochet.
** FBI documents on Operation Condor--the state-sponsored terrorism of the Chilean secret police, DINA. The documents, including summaries of prison letters written by DINA agent Michael Townley, provide evidence on the carbombing assassination of Orlando Letelier and Ronni Moffitt in Washington D.C., and the murder of Chilean General Carlos Prats and his wife in Buenos Aires, among other operations.

CONTINUED...
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