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Chile: Pinochet was planning new coup in 1988
Declassified US documents show that Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet was planning to carry out another coup if he lost a 1988 plebiscite on his military regime.
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Chile: 20 arrested at Mapuche prisoner’s hearing
Some 20 Mapuche protesters, including women and children, were assaulted and arrested as they demonstrated outside a hearing for a prisoner on hunger strike.
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Argentine court: church complicit in ‘dirty war’
A court in Argentina found that the country’s Catholic Church was complicit with crimes committed during the dictatorship’s “dirty war” on leftist dissidents in the 1970s.
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Argentina: Barrick mines no threat to glaciers?
San Juan province’s government has released a report claiming that two mines owned by Barrick Gold will do no damage to glaciers near the facilities high in the Andes.
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Chile: Mapuche hunger striker reported near death
“It was painful to see him,” a Spanish legislator said about the imprisoned activist, who had been on hunger strike for 74 days. “Mr. Héctor Llaitul could die at any moment.”
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Argentina, Iran in joint probe of AMIA bombing
Argentina signed an agreement with Iran to create an independent Commission of Truth to investigate the 1994 bombing of the Buenos Aires Jewish community center.
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Brazil: landless leader assassinated
CÃcero Guedes dos Santos, a leader of the Landless Workers Movement (MST) who led an occupation of unused property in Rio de Janeiro state, was shot dead by unknown gunmen.
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Chile: ‘terrorist’ attacks in Mapuche region
The Chilean government prepared to step up repression against Mapuche activists after an elderly couple died in a fire set at their estate by some 20 masked men.
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Falklands fracas flares amid Antarctic anxieties
A new war of words between the UK and Argentina over the Malvinas/Falklands follows a similar one last month over a disputed region of Antarctica.
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Chile: ex-officers to stand trial for Jara murder
Eight former military officers face trial for their alleged participation in the murder of renowned musician Víctor Jara in 1973; four of them are School of the Americas graduates.
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Argentina: ex-prez gets off for 2001 repression
The courts let a former president off for police killings in his administration 11 years ago, but sentenced a left-leaning former economy minister with suspicious cash in her office.
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Argentina: silver mine defeated —but Chevron gets fracking deal
In a victory for local environmentalists, Minera Argenta suspended its Navidad silver mine in Chubut–but the national oil company has signed a fracking deal with Chevron.