Obama says US ready to help Chile in rights cases

Source: Associated Press

Obama says US ready to help Chile in rights cases
By MICHAEL WARREN, Associated Press
– 1 hr 50 mins ago

SANTIAGO, Chile – President Barack Obama said he's ready to help Chile solve human rights crimes committed during the dictatorship of Gen. Augusto Pinochet, but avoided agreeing Monday to a U.S. apology for meddling in the country's affairs.

It was the first question at Obama's joint news conference with Chilean President Sebastian Pinera. A Chilean reporter asked if Obama would share classified U.S. documents with Chilean judges investigating the deaths of former presidents Salvador Allende and Eduardo Frei Montalva as well as hundreds of other opponents of the dictatorship.

The reporter also asked Obama if he would apologize for U.S. campaign, led by the Central Intelligence Agency under orders from President Richard Nixon, that destabilized Chile and encouraged the 1973 military coup that ousted Allende.

The entire center-left coalition in Chile's lower house of Congress joined an open letter to Obama on Monday asking for the apology as well as cooperation in sharing uncensored versions of some 25,000 declassified U.S. documents on the 1973-90 dictatorship. Chilean judges are still pursuing criminal investigations into nearly a third of the 3,065 deaths of leftists and other Pinochet opponents, including the two former presidents, whose deaths remain shrouded in mystery.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110321/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_chile_cia_files

Good news.

At least Kissinger knows where the bodies are buried. And that's not a figure of speech.

Why do people always point to Rove and Kissinger, as if they give orders to their bosses. Even if that were so, the law holds the boss to account.

Bradley Mannings Human Rights?

Let's go directly to the crime of coordinating the Operation Condor.

George Bush Sr. May Face Charges: Conspiring to Kidnap and Murder Political Activists
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x2459135

I was all, you said wha....

and then,.....oh man if only......sigh.......


Please let Karma work now, please, please, please,. ;)


-p

-the disappearing middle class
-the decimated education system
-the high unemployment rate and/or lack of ..........* JOBS! *
-the big shit stain of oil in the gulf of mexico
-the environment and green tech
-lack of jail time for ..........do I even have to say it, I don't think I can, I've lost track.
-thinking more nuclear reactors are the way to go??????
-giving free money to oil companies via subsidies, cause they're not drowning in profit enough.
-saving face and getting out of the way for someone else so you don't look like a complete %@*&. around 2012! :mad:

-p

...especially as a basis for the testing grounds of unregulated, unfettered 'free-market' capitalism. Saw the documentary, want to read the book. They did some really despicable shit down there, spear-headed by the policies of Milton Friedman. Wish we could resurrect that soulless fuck so he could actually pay for his crimes against humanity.

Glad Chile's calling the US Government out, hope something comes of it.

we have time for Chile