Lucia Pinochet, the ex-dictator, thief, and criminal against humanity's wife has been released on bond, but the youngest fruit of her loins, Marco Antonio Pinochet, remains in prison and quite possibly for good reason:
Evidence developed by Judge Muñoz also suggests that the young Pinochet may have tried to provide stolen passports to Chilean drug trafficker Edgardo Batich, a fugitive from Chilean justice hiding out in Europe.
The Fifth Bench of the Santiago Appeals Court ruled on the bail requests early Thursday morning, after Hiriart passed the night in the Military Hospital because of her high blood pressure and Marco Antonio passed the night at the “high end” Capuchinos jail for white collar criminals. Judge Muñoz had granted bail rights to both defendants, but subject to approval by the Appeals Court.
Meanwhile, it appears that Mrs. Pinochet aspired to be Lady Macbeth:
Lucia Hiriart said in a 1974 interview that it was she who pushed her husband to lead the violent overthrow of Allende, who took his own life as soldiers supported by fighter-bombers assaulted the presidential palace.
"I told him many times, 'look Augusto, I don't know how much longer the military is going to go on putting up with these wretches. Do you want to tell me what you have pants for?” Finally he heeded”. Another revealing episode took place in 1979, when Pinochet had to return red-faced from Manila because then-Philippine strongman Ferdinand Marcos withdrew an invitation to his counterpart just as the Chilean's plane was touching down in the capital for an official visit.
An enraged Hiriart demanded - and got - the dismissal of Chilean Foreign Minister Hernan Cubillos, whose adroit diplomacy just a few months earlier had averted a war with Argentina and made him the attractive human face of Pinochet's iron fisted authoritarian regime.
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On October 5, 1988, when Chileans voted in a plebiscite for an end to military rule and a return to democracy, Mrs. Pinochet went on television to blast her fellow citizens as "ungrateful". Doña Lucia, meanwhile, was described by Argentine author Juan Gasparini -in a book called "Mujeres de dictadores" (Dictators's Women)- as "merciless, ambitious and proud of the crimes committed" under Pinochet.
Meanwhile, another US $1,000,000 has been found in a bank in Miami and has been seized by Chilean authorities. If I were one of Pinochet's lawyers, boy would I be angry at him for this:
The president of the Consejo de Defensa del Estado -- Chile's office of the attorney general -- told The Herald Friday the discovery is an important step in the global effort to track down Pinochet's funds and bring the dictator to justice.
Clara Leonora Szczaranski Cerda noted Pinochet's lawyers have adamantly maintained there are no other secret bank accounts.
''This underscores their intentional misleading of the public and court,'' said Cerda, who was in Miami Friday with Chile's deputy attorney general, María Teresa Muñoz, to meet with her legal team.
It's well known that Pinochet felt a special affinity for England. One wonders if he liked Faulkner as his family is beginning to seem like a higher class version of the Snopes.
Salvador Allende did not take his own life; his body had over 20 rouinds in it, some from automatic weapons fire. One was in the back.
The only surviving CIA contract agent present at his death confirmed this in an unguarded moment a few years ago,, and he stated he himself was scheduled for death, but escaped during the confusion by killing the Chilean officer escorting him.
I'm no fan of Pinochet; read any of the many articles I have written on his money laundering in COMPLINET, but the truth is
the US was involved in his death.
Posted by: Kenneth Rijock | September 14, 2005 at 07:35 PM
Mr.Kenneth Rijock is mistaken. Allende committed suicide. Everybody knows it. His personal doctor, who accompanied it until the end, it confirmed it recently.
It was killed with rifle that to him his friend Fidel Castro gave.
Posted by: RCG | September 21, 2005 at 01:02 PM
If Allende committed suicide, would someone please post his autopsy on this site ? If it exists, it cannot be classified so many years later.
Posted by: Kenneth Rijock | October 05, 2005 at 03:35 PM
An eyewitness (from Cuba) has finally put the matter to rest. A Cuban bodyguard of Allende's killed him on the personal orders of Fidel Castro. The AK-47 was then placed upon the body to make it look like suicide. The eyewitness finally came forward this week in global media. if you do not believe me, go research it on Google.
KENNETH RIJOCK
Financial Crime Consultant
World-Check
www.world-check.com
Posted by: Kenneth Rijock | March 14, 2008 at 07:45 PM