Monthly Review
10-10-2015, 02:30 AM
http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2015/images/pinochet_kissinger.jpgThe Guardian reports that Chilean President Augusto Pinochet personally ordered the assassination of Orlando Letelier and Ronni Moffitt, in Washington, D.C. in September 1976. So, you may say, what's new? After all, my partner Sam Buffone and I sued Chile for these murders and won a judgment. At the trial, our expert witness said that such a killing would not have taken place without Pinochet's knowledge. But now it appears from declassified documents that the CIA knew this was the case. . . . Our government proclaims it is in a war against terrorism, and enlists military force and a vast network of surveillance. They should take for themselves the words of Herzen: "We are not the doctors, we are the disease."
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