Posted on 12/02/2011 7:44:59 AM PST by Libloather
Chile seeks extradition of ex-U.S. military officer in 1973 death
November 30, 2011 | By Fabiola Gutierrez and Chris Kraul, Los Angeles Times
Reporting from Santiago, Chile, and Bogota, — A Chilean judge is seeking the extradition of a former U.S. military officer to face murder charges in the 1973 slaying of freelance journalist and filmmaker Charles Horman, a case dramatized in the Oscar-winning film "Missing," court sources confirmed Tuesday.
Judge Jorge Zepeda wants former U.S. Navy Capt. Ray E. Davis, whose whereabouts were not immediately clear Tuesday, to face trial in Chile for his alleged involvement in the deaths of Horman and U.S. student Frank Teruggi. The two Americans were arrested and executed by Chilean forces shortly after President Salvador Allende was overthrown in a military coup on Sept. 11, 1973.
Horman, 31, was working as a screenwriter for state-run Chile Films when military rebel forces led by Gen. Augusto Pinochet attacked the presidential palace La Moneda. Allende committed suicide that day rather than surrender.
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I was trying to be subtle, not looking for a Generale to save our butts, I really was meaning WE SAVE OUR OWN BUTT through R2.
Even so, I would trust our General Staff much more than the current occupier of the Whiteyhut. dem or not, they are not likely to be socialist/communist or hating America
While what Pinochet did was necessary because Allende was working to make Chile a Cuban satellite, it is a bit much to call him a hero.
The military was essentially asked by the Congress and the Supreme Court to launch a coup to stop Allende’s abuse of the Constitution. Had they simply done that an allow a civilian government to replace Allende and undo the damage Allende had caused, he would have been a hero.
But then, the junta dissolved the Congress and abolished all political parties and imposed a rotating Presidency. Pinochet then decided that the rotating presidency would start and end with himself.
He prevented Chile from becoming what Venezuela is now, but he also was a dictator of a country with a that had seen decades of peaceful constitutional government and he overthrew not just a budding dictator, but the Constitution he claimed to be protecting.
A better man than Fidel Castro? Yes, but not a real hero.
Pinochet did what he had to do, just like Franco in Spain.
Chile is much better off today because of Pinochet.
If Franco had been defeated by the Leftists in the Spanish Civil War, their military would have been in tatters and they would certainly have fallen to the Nazis - and that would have had a tremendous impact on the outcome of WW2.
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