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General Pinochet in 1986
[Chilean Congress National Library/cc]
THE Chilean government said yesterday that it will launch a search plan for those people who went missing during the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet.
Chilean Minister of Justice Luis Cordero said the government was planning to put in place reparations not only to the families of the victims, but also to society.
The National Search Plan for Detainees Disappeared is set to be launched today by the government.
Newly revealed documents reveal that MI5 taught Brazilian secret police the techniques deployed by the 1964-85 military dictatorship in horrific prisons like Rio de Janeiro’s House of Death. SARA VIVACQUA reports
Spanish dictator Francisco Franco died 50 years ago today November 20. JIM JUMP looks back at his blood-soaked rule and toxic legacy on Spain today
KATE CLARK recalls an occasion when the president of the Scottish National Union of Mineworkers might just have saved a Chilean prisoner’s life