pinochet never had to answer for this crime, although if you know the story of pinochet, you know that in 1998, he does have to start answering for other crimes, right? he goes to london, and the spanish essentially try to extradite him for crimes against spaniards, and this starts this whole process. he is eventually sent back to chile, but at this point, the courts of chile have really turned around, and they put him on the docket and accuse him of all these crimes, and he dies before he is ever found guilty of any of them. none of hisfor crimes, but it is interesting that in the early 1990's, while contreras is being accused of these things -- and he's appearing on tv all the time -- he starts mildly accusing pinochet of actually being the guy who gave them the order. right? to put the hit on letelier. he never says the words "pinochet did it," but he says things like, "everything i did, i did because el jefe told me to do it. everything i did as the head of d.i.n.a." at some point, they even have a shouting match against this. pinochet saying, "no, no, no, i just gave you general d

pinochet nodded and promises cooperation. but my book reveals how behind the scenes the dictator orchestrated a cover-up. letelier and moffitt, therefore, meaning the widow and the widower, were aghast. moffitt asked at a press conference if carter is serious about human rights, why doesn't he welcome isabel and me just like he's welcoming pinochet? the widow and widower wrote the president for a meeting but national security advisers denied them. didn't help at all, letelier told me. we could never get through to him, never. and she remembered this in her late 80s. in her activism, letelier focused on pinochet's likely responsibility for the assassination. college and local newspapers covered her, as did local radio and television. the right-wing media in the u.s. tried to smear orlando as a tool of fidel castro, isabel debunked their lies. the dam finally burst when in march 1978 investigators published photos of the two men whose names they ignored but whom they suspected of being involved. they had these passport photos b

it ended up being a huge miscalculation for the pinochet government. they must have somehow thought that this would be ok with the u.s. government. likely because they had done it in all sorts of parts of the world, and that government had not done anything about it. also because letelier was a socialist, and he was allying with other socialists, but he was a democratic-socialist and a peaceful socialist, and the pinochet government probably thought that nobody would respond to this, that the americans would not care about this, but it turns out that when you kill a former ambassador in the united states, that is a crime under u.s. law, under the u.s. code, because that person remains a protected person until they die. also, of course, they killed a united states citizen, so these are two separate federal crimes. immediately, the fbi descended on this scene. they took the investigation away from the washington, d.c. police as soon as they realize who the victims were and who the potential criminals were, so and so then they had the resources to find pe

global neoliberalism the legacy of pinochet lives on. board they don't want to lections they want a coup d'etat and wipe us away in a pinochet style. sometimes we say these hard things and in europe and other places they see it as an exaggeration or extremist and it's not exaggerated they want to put a pinochet in place in venezuela i mean they're not signed today democratically elected maduro may still be in power in venezuela custodian of the world's greatest known reserves of oil even after attempts by the european union to overthrow him but in chile washington's man is in trouble accused of reviving the days when u.k. companies armed pinochet to torture his people after so many years of trying to recover from a long big potato ship of almost 20 years you have an open wound in the chilean society when you have the military on the street and that's another thing that we have to take into account when understanding this crisis is that that trauma of to land society of having the military on the street is open again with this repression

and according to some leaders fighting global neoliberalism the legacy of pinochet lives on. board they don't want to lections they want a coup d'etat and wipe us away in a pinochet style. sometimes we say these hard things and in europe and other places they see it as an exaggeration or extremist and it's not exaggerated they want to put a pinochet in place in venezuela i mean they're not signed today democratically elected maduro may still be in power in venezuela custodian of the world's greatest known reserves of oil even after attempts by the european union to overthrow him but in chile washington's man is in trouble accused of reviving the days when u.k. companies armed pinochet to torture his people after so many years of trying to recover from a long big potato ship of almost 20 years you have an open wound in the chilean society when you have the military on the street and that's another thing that we have to take into account when understanding this crisis is that that trauma of killing and society of having the military on the street is open again with this repress

pinochet. but it's important that the residence is there because the residence itself now has a bust of orlando letelier to try to remember him also and so around this circle we have these two memorials to this one man and of course to ronni moffitt. and so share dan circle will be marked forever in the heart of washington. >> hello, everyone. welcome to busboys and poets. my name is olivia. i am the book events coordinator here and i'm very excited to welcome alan mcpherson for his book "ghosts of sheridan circle." it's an event that i was not aware of, honestly, and was very excited to read about it in this book and i'm excited for alan to speak about it. here at busboys we like to have conversations that others aren't having, and i feel like this is one of those so i'm excited for him to speak about it. i'm going to give you a little kind of overview. if a cell phone, please take photos, but don't make the flash happen. we are filming tonight, as you probably can see. it's a little distracti

board they don't want to lecture and they want to cool and wipe us away in a pinochet style. sometimes we say these hard things and in europe and other places they see it as an exaggeration or extremist and it's not exciting. they want to put a pinochet in place in venezuela i mean they're not signed today democratically elected maduro may still be in power in venezuela custodian of the world's greatest known reserves of oil even after attempts by the european union to overthrow him but in chile washington's man is in trouble accused of reviving the days when u.k. companies armed pinochet to torture his people after so many years of trying to recover from a long big potato almost 20 years you have an open wound.

looming over the media story in chile is some dark history of the pinochet dictatorship which lasted from 1973 until 990 and the country's oldest bestselling newspaper elmer curio has more to answer for than most in the early seventy's the paper was bankrolled by the cia. paid millions of dollars to produce stories to destabilize the democratically elected government of leftist president salvador allende it then went on to cover up brutal human rights violations committed by the pinochet regime which killed thousands of chileans many of the demonstrators have long memories and it's no wonder that the paper's offices in the coastal city of valparaiso were broken into and satellite. media you know is being asked about their support for the 973 could and then with this being asked when they want to ban me a cult they haven't done it till now and they're not going to do it so we need to know what perspective of this right way and media outlets how on reality is it trying to maintain the economic model or is it trying to protect its business interests is it trying to retain its privileges

looming over the media story in chile is some dark history of the pinochet dictatorship which lasted from 1973 until 990 and the country's oldest bestselling newspaper elmer curio has more to answer for than most in the early seventy's the paper was bankrolled by the cia. paid millions of dollars to produce stories to destabilize the democratically elected government of leftist president salvador allende it then went on to cover up brutal human rights violations committed by the pinochet regime which killed thousands of chileans many of the demonstrators have long memories and it's no wonder that the paper's offices in the coastal city of valparaiso were broken into and satellite. the media you know is being asked about their support for the 973 could and then with according to this being asked when they want to ban me a call they haven't done it till now and they're not going to do it so we need to know what perspective of this right away and media outlets how on reality is it trying to maintain the economic model is it trying to protect its business interests is it trying to retain

and they're bringing pinochet style de facto military regime into the heart of south america you know the only one who's made that comparison and since israel election last month and the indigenous race hatred has gripped some members of those indigenous led movement for socialism have had their homes ransacked and burned some of been rounded up others killed his replacement military backed sen janina proclaims that the city is not for the indians who should stay in the highlands and she has called indigenous bolivians say tannic to which cherokee activist rebecca nagle replied anti indigenous racism is at the heart of what is happening in bolivia but jeb there seems to be more going on there than racism and we've seen this movie elsewhere literally beneath trouble venezuela is lots of oil bolivia has vast lithium reserves and lithium goes into electric cars and bolivia's natural gas reserves are plentiful you have written that the united states played a key military coup in bolivia how did this unfold. we'll it's as if these little pinochet's have appointed a and coulter want to be t

to pinochet in chile. well thanks 1st of all for this interview it's very important where the 7 here in chile we within knock only because of our country but also for the region and also because as you said she was in the in the seventy's in the eighty's under the dictatorship she doesn't like an experiment of the new liberal policies without a democratic process you know under a dictatorship so it today we. we're living in the in the rules that the colored boys as we said to this are going to missions who passed with milton friedman's policies before the newlyweds in the rest of the world she was the 1st experiment in the last 30 or 40 years has implemented to our development who is mainly focused on the concentration of our economy and the trickle down economy. ideology these demonstrations have relieved or release some energy who was very tied up inside of their people said mine of the people heart that it wasn't able to get to the end of the months without having to spend with credit so i think that wh

board they don't want to lections they want to cool and wipe us away in a pinochet style. sometimes we say these hard things and in europe and other places they see it as an exaggeration or extremist and it's not exaggerated they were.

was his government that did it, but later on, of course, he trumpeted the version of events of the pinochet regime which is that there is no way his government could have done this. it must have been some leftist guerillas trying to pin it on pinochet, but it's important that the residence is there because the residence itself now has a bust of orlando letelier to try to remember him also, and so around the circle we have these two memorials to this one man and, of course, to ronni moffitt. and so sheridan circle will be marked forever in thhe

was continued by democratic governments from 1990 to the present day and while under pinochet it was a failure post dictatorship the economy has performed better than its neighbors. so let's do what we always try to do here in counting the cost and tell the story through numbers and are going to see some days here in the video wall from 5 different latin american economies including chile of course starting with how rich people are in terms of g.d.p. or g.d.p. per capita now $990.00 is where we start chile is the orange line and it's a it's a middling nation at the end of pinochet's regime venezuela with the purple line clearly the richest latin american economy but as time rolls on look at chile it moves well up the graph there while venice pretty much drops off the charts there and choose a different metric now we call this the gini index which measures economic inequality and this one we're picking up from 987 again watch the orange line for chile like its neighbors it is what we would call and unequal economy it's got a genie reading of 56 inches so you know the closer you are to

condemned the government's plans to rewrite the country's constitution, which dates back to esther pinochet's regime. we speak to coping founder medea benjamin about why five police squad cars came to heher house wednesday in an attempt to arrest her. all of that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. house lawmakers on wednesday opened the first public hearings of the impeachment inquiry into president donald trump. two witnesses, george kent and liam taylor, but testified president trump withheld aid ukraine in an attempt to pressure ukraine to investigate joe biden and his son hunter who served on the board of the ukrainian natural gas company. in his opening statement, ambassador taylor details about her previously unknown phone call from july between president trump and gordon sondland, the u.s. ambassador to the european union. >> a member of my staff could hear presisident trump on the phone asking ambassador sondland about the investigations. mr. sondland told president trump, the ukrainians were ready to move forwa

back dictator augusto pinochet but for more of that and other fights we're more procedure taking place not the america i'm joined now by skype by award winning muckraker greg palast who's in los angeles california greg thanks so much for coming up back on so we heard from a chilean politician you've been one of the world's greatest communicators about globalization what sit made you feel seeing violence in chile be the cradle of near liberalism. but this is an old story we've now had for decades of battles back and forth between the neo cons and globalization free market liberalization which basically means allowing u.s. and european companies to grab the resources of latin america they do it under the cover of free markets democracy which oddly doesn't involve respecting elections so i've seen this i was you know reporting on the ground out of venezuela out of peru out of argentina out of chile and so i've seen this again and again where then you have popular uprisings you know you have popular elections putting in people like john is you have a home or alephs you had the kitchener's

nations committed by the pinochet regime which killed thousands of chileans many of the demonstrators have long memories and it's no wonder that the paper's offices in the coastal city of valparaiso were broken into and satellite. media you know is being asked about their support for the 973 could and them according to this being asked when they want to ban me a call they haven't done it till now and they're not going to do it so we need to know what perspective of this right away and media outlets how on reality is it trying to maintain the economic model or is it trying to protect its business interests is it trying to retain its privilege and hedging you know with a really media system got the entire system i mean it's done limited we have come from a dictatorship where the military had an important role this is a memory a painful memory you know the attack against selma could be you know is symbolic it is a very important newspaper in chile associated with a right wing movement that was in line with pinochet you cannot talk about chile without knowing what was said. of the 2. days

nations committed by the pinochet regime which killed thousands of chileans many of the demonstrators have long memories and it's no wonder that the paper's offices in the coastal city of valparaiso were broken into and satellite. the media you know is being asked about their support for the 973 could and then mcauliffe is being asked when they want to ban me a cult they haven't done it till now and they're not going to do it so we need to know what perspective of this right way and media outlets how on reality is it trying to maintain the economic model or is it trying to protect its business interests is it trying to retain its privilege and hedging you know with a really media system got interested in miami. we have come from a dictatorship where the military had an important role this is a memory a painful memory you know the attack against selma could be you know is symbolic it is a very important newspaper in chile associated with a right wing movement that was in line with pinochet you cannot talk about chile without knowing what was said in. the. days into the demonstrations p

the current constitution was imposed in 1908 under the pinochet dictatorship and then. the model of the 1980 constitution hands education health social security and labor relations over to the private sector the state plays a minimal role so people are feeling abused by a constitution that instead of benefiting the collective needs tends to concentrate resources in a few hands without providing the necessary services. but other experts argue that the current constitution is not to blame rather the laws and public policies that have failed to meet people's needs. i'm not saying this a new constitution can't improve the magna carta but i fear that will be a huge question between people's expectations and the reality of what the constitution came and can't do. after nearly 4 weeks of unrelenting protests it's widely being seen as a necessary step to pave the way for structural changes to chile's free market system. but for many that's no longer enough former presidential candidate. says peña that must call for early general elections before chile can tackle a new national

historian alan mcpherson on his book "ghosts of sheridan circle: how a washington assassination brought pinochet's terror state to justice." mr. mcpherson gives an bus boysed talk at and poets in washington, but first, we visit sheridan circle with the author to see where the crime took place and the memorial there for the two victims. dr. mcpherson: so, we are literally at the scene of the crime. this is a memorial that was put here by the institute for policy studies to memorialize the assassination of orlando letelier. at the same time, ronni moffitt,

economic model founded on neoliberal principles that are seen as a remnant of the days of the hard line pinochet era. people's incomes do not match the cost of living in prices here like they are in europe but wages of the same as the rest of latin america in terms of long term solutions we need to think about how to restructure the political institutions that we inherited from the pinochet dictatorship. well many argue neal liberalism is to blame for the state of inequality and others say it's been negligence by the side of the country's political class that's exacerbated the problem and. liberalism is a pejorative term for a free market economy i don't think people who participate in these massive march is a protesting against a free market they're protesting against a lack of opportunities. there's no shortage of opinions over what the solution to chill is political crisis should be but the problem is clear the prosperity achieved over the last 30 years has been cooled by the wealthiest in society and people have had enough and ended up a little santiago chile. it is good to have you with us

dictator whether to listen to the people my father who lived under the pinochet dictatorship or 30 years ago says what's happening now is very similar to what had it shipped over 30 years ago says what's happening now is very similar to what happened back then so i'm going through a similar experience as my dad's been back then so i'm going through a similar experience as my dad's. and i've been thinking you know i don't think that i'm not of much more peaceful and fighting for what we have been thinking and i don't the parts that are not of much more peaceful and fighting for what we think we deserve the police were targeting us with tear gas and red rubber bullets i think we deserve the police were targeting us with tear gas and red rubber bullets trying to disperse the crowds. there are no supplies the guy trying to disperse the crowds on ice or there are no supplies the government claims is done enough to stop public hospitals but it's alive because we work in the health care 7 man claims is done enough to stop public hospitals but it's a lot because we work in the health care sector

addict my father who lived under the pinochet dictatorship over 30 years ago says what's happening now is very similar to what happened shit over 30 years ago says what's happening now is very similar to what happened back then so i'm going through a similar experience as my dad's back then so i'm going through a similar experience as my dad's. been the. rebel and the money i see that everybody puts this federal out of money and i say for your pretty incredible and well find it we don't think are what we think we deserve it really deserves or turn the pretty please ring return or give it to spirit to get here again and read read read read dribble it's both true it's trying to disperse the crowds on ice or there are no supplies the government to disperse the crowds on ice or there are no supplies the government claims is done enough to stop public hospitals but it's alive because we work in the health care system and claims is done enough. just talk public hospitals but it's a lot because we work in the health care sector and we know there are plenty of shortages. correspond of rotting

drafted he wrote up a constitution even more than 30 years ago pinochet drafted he wrote up a constitution for cheating the that's still in force and this constitution looks like the green for cheating the that's still in force and this constitution looks like an agreement between the i.m.f. and the chilean military i mean there has. between the i.m.f. and the chilean military i mean there has hyper provide position of public assets of public services and just one more example provides is a. of public assets of public services and just one more example. they'd own the copper exporting company there you go. they'd own the copper exporting company go there you go 75 percent of the profits of that company go directly to the military 75 percent of the profits of that company go directly to the military so with the big question is where are we seeing this economic inequality so without big question is where are we seeing this economic inequality from because i am afaik has characterizing chile as a high income country already from because i am africa's characterizing chile as a high income coun

economic model founded on neoliberal principles that are seen as a remnant of the days of the hardline pinochet era. people's incomes do not match the cost of living in prices here like they are in europe but wages of the same as the rest of latin america in terms of long term solutions we need to think about how to restructure the political institutions that we inherited from the pinochet dictatorship. while many argue neo liberalism is to blame for the state of inequality and others say it's been negligence by the side of the country's political class that's exacerbated the problem and. liberalism is a pejorative term for a free market economy i don't think people who participate in these massive much is a protesting against a free market they're protesting against a lack of opportunities. there's no shortage of opinions over what the solution to chile's political crisis should be but the problem is clear the prosperity achieved over the last 30 years has been fooled by the wealthiest in society and the people have had enough and ended up. processors in lebanon's campus or beirut sans other p

the current constitution was imposed in 1980 under the pinochet dictatorship. the model of the 1980 constitution hands education health social security and labor relations over to the private sector the state plays a minimal role so people are feeling abused by a constitution that instead of benefiting the collective needs tends to concentrate resources in a few hands without providing the necessary services. but other experts argue that the current constitution is not to blame rather the laws and public policies that have failed to meet people's needs. i'm not saying this is a new constitution council. but i fear that will be a huge question between people's expectations and the reality of what the constitution came and. after nearly 4 weeks of unrelenting protests it's widely being seen as a necessary step to pave the way for structural changes to chile's free market system. but for many that's no longer enough former presidential candidate. says that must call for early general elections before chile can tackle a new national charter. but we need to legitimi

jackson will tell us about the ongoing fight back against the legacy of british back to take drug mr pinochet until then he would advise us readers it's got to going on the revenue to get out. of. your government and our government and all the other major governments of the world know what's going to happen and when it's going to. but they haven't told you and they haven't told me they haven't announced. imagine something as big as the earth . is going to cause tidal waves earthquakes volcanoes erupt and it's going to chill . so very for a while right. my great grandfather's. nobody would care about the law or prison so you'd have wallace though should have. a turtle between them and the. people or or specter of socialism 30 years after the fall of the berlin wall social and is now remarkably popular what explains this how to explain why so many successful and even privileged people look to socialism to solve social problems maybe it's because liberalism itself.

face week of unrest with demonstrators rejecting a government plan to rewrite the constitution the pinochet era legal system is widely flamed for behind level of inequality in chile the interior minister offered to redraft it and hold a referendum but critics say the proposed changes do not go far enough and will only help the ruling class. meanwhile in poland people across the country have been celebrating independence day around 50000 people joined a march in mosul people held up christian crosses red flags and national flags many also historical army uniforms independence day commemorates the restoration of the polish state in 1918. and in caps and led me activists have blocked a motorway linking spain and france the protest organized by the democratic tsunami campaign group came a day after the spanish general election catalonia has been gripped by rest since mid october after a court sentenced several independent leaders to lengthy prison terms. well that date i'm rosana law could now be back in around 30 minutes time with more news from around the world see that. i'm going to fulfill