Journalist rueful at Pinochet arrest

Posted on Fri, Mar. 18, 2005
The TV journalist whose interview with Chile's Augusto Pinochet helped prosecutors charge the former dictator expressed regret at her role in the case.

BY OSCAR CORRAL

Television journalist Maria Elvira Salazar set out to score a rare interview with Gen. Augusto Pinochet, but she never imagined it would lead to his arrest.

Chilean officials say Salazar's interview, broadcast in November 2003, helped give them enough evidence to place Pinochet under house arrest in December.

The Harvard-educated Salazar, an aggressive interviewer who has her own show, Maria Elvira Confronta, on Miami's WDLP Channel 22, is not entirely comfortable with her unwitting role in Pinochet's imprisonment.

''I feel very bad,'' she said. ``I did not want to cause him problems. Someone who had already put legal issues behind him is now entangled in new legal problems because of me.''

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no matter who was the catalyst for them. I hope to see our very own Pinochet, *w, suffer from the same kind of legal problems eventually for his crimes against the Afghani people, the Iraqi people and hopefully his part in the 9-11 attacks if a smoking gun can be uncovered.

Also, the more of these dictators are forced to pay for their crimes, the better. They serve as a reminder to any future would be dictators that the new world order will not allow them from now on to escape punishment for their crimes .