In Chile, pace of justice quickens
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By Danna Harman | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor. First a Chilean court stripped immunity from leaders of the country&#39;s 17-year &quot;dirty war&quot; last month.
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A day after a prosecutor investigating adversaries of President Hugo ChÃ¡vez was killed in a car bombing, leaders of the country&#39;s opposition
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Gen. Augusto Pinochet, whose 17-year dictatorship carried out thousands of political killings and widespread torture, was fighting for his life in a Chilean hospital Sunday after suffering a heart attack. But doctors said his condition was improving after an emergency procedure to restore blood flow to his heart.
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Bush and America&#39;s leadership of Iraq war are targets of many in Chile; scores detained. By Alan Clendenning. SANTIAGO, Chile -- More than 25,000 protesters marched through downtown Santiago on Friday, demonstrating
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Chile took a key step Wednesday toward confronting the grim legacy of abuses under the 1973-90 dictatorship of Gen. Augusto Pinochet, completing a lengthy report on torture and political imprisonment with testimonies from some 35,000 victims.
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Thousands tortured under Augusto Pinochet's former military regime in Chile are granted compensation.
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The take home message from Gen. Pinochet&#39;s brushes with law, lately, is that one has to pay for his or her crime no matter when that crime was perpetrated.
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Chile&#39;s Supreme Court has postponed a ruling on whether murder and kidnapping charges against former dictator Augusto Pinochet should proceed.
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As former dictator Gen. Augusto Pinochet recovered on Sunday from a stroke, lawyers who brought human rights charges against him claimed his hospitalization was a ploy to avoid trial.
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SANTIAGO, Chile  - Murder charges against former  Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet in a major human rights case  can proceed, an appeals court said on Monday in an  unprecedented ruling immediately appealed to the Supreme Court.
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Chile's Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that murder and kidnapping charges against Augusto Pinochet can move forward, a decision that brings the ex-dictator one step closer to trial in a major human rights case.
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Opponents are delighted that former Chilean leader Augusto Pinochet may soon be tried for alleged human rights abuses, but Judge Juan Guzman&#39;s ruling that he is fit to stand trial has angered his supporters.
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Latin America is finally owning up to its "dirty wars" &#151; the nightmarish campaigns of state-sponsored violence in which hundreds of thousands died or "disappeared." But the death of Chile's Gen. Augusto Pinochet shows the continent's leftist leaders of today must act fast to expose the truth while the masterminds of this savagery are still alive.
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Former Chilean President Augusto Pinochet recovered from a stroke Sunday and still stayed in hospital while the plaintiff accused him of evading trial at court.
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By Fiona Ortiz SANTIAGO, Chile  - Chile's Supreme Court ruled onTuesday that murder and kidnapping charges against AugustoPinochet can move forward, a decision that brings theex-dictator one step closer to trial in a major human rightscase.
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Chileans are turning more and more against ex-dictator Augusto Pinochet, making courts more likely to put the ailing retired general on trial for human rights abuses during his 1973-1990 regime, political scientists said.
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FORMER Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet was overnight today with a possible stroke, ahead of an expected court ruling on Tuesday on whether he should be tried in a human rights case.