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Leftists celebrate ruling against Chile's Pinochet.(Insider Report)(Augusto Pinochet)
In a stunning reversal of its earlier decisions, Chile's Supreme Court on August 26 stripped Gen. Augusto Pinochet of immunity from prosecution, paving the way for possible trial of the former president on charges of human rights abuses. The court voted 9-8 to lift the immunity the 88-year-old Pinochet enjoys as a former president.
Pinochet has been the target of a vicious global campaign by Communists and fellow travelers ever since his successful 1973 coup against Salvador Allende's Marxist regime, which was closely allied with Communist Cuba and was moving rapidly to turn Chile into a carbon copy of Fidel Castro's dictatorship.
On October 16, 1998, while visiting England for medical treatment, Pinochet was arrested by officials of Tony Blair's Labour government, who acted on a warrant issued by a Marxist judge in Spain. This spurred a Communist orchestrated worldwide clamor to put him on trial. Pinochet was released in 2000 and returned to Chile. A 2002 report by court-appointed doctors stated that Pinochet has a mild case of dementia. He uses a pacemaker, suffers from diabetes and arthritis, and has had at least three mild strokes since 1998. The ...
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