He stayed too long and was responsible for human rights abuses that horrify the west, but were part and parcel of latin american politics at the time. Carlos federico dominguez avila historia sao paulo v. Capitulo 2 dictadura militar del general augusto pinochet. House of lords pinochet senator pinochet himself committed any of those acts, it is alleged that they were done in pursuance of a conspiracy to which he was a party, at his instigation and with his knowledge. Article pdf available in journal of latin american studies 3603. The extradition of general augusto pinochet human rights watch. Las audiencias permitiran entre otras cosas escuchar a varios testigos historicos.
He was arrested in london six days later and held on house arrest for a year and a half before being released by the british government in march 2000. Dictadura militar del general augusto pinochet ugarte. The title, a nation of enemies, is what he inherited but not how he left it. Indictment and arrest of augusto pinochet wikipedia. General augusto pinochet was indicted for human rights violations committed in his native chile by spanish magistrate baltasar garzon on 10 october 1998. R v bow street metropolitan stipendiary magistrate, ex parte. Antonys college oxford university 2006 few coups in latin have received so much international attention as that of chile in 1973. Pdf the pinochet case and human rights progress in chile. R pinochet ugarte v bow st metropolitan stipendiary magistrate 2000 1 ac 61, 119 and 147 is a set of three uk constitutional law judgments by the house of lords that examined whether former chilean dictator augusto pinochet was entitled to claim state immunity from torture allegations made by a spanish court and therefore avoid extradition. The house of lords, in its second decision on march 24, 1999, ruled that the only crimes for which general pinochet could be extradited were torture and conspiracy to torture after december 8.
The pinochet regime in chile southern methodist university. Las causas penales contra pinochet nunca concluyeron. Historia, numero 43, volumen 1, enerojunio 2010, pp. Capitulo 2 dictadura militar del general augusto pinochet ugarte. Condemnation of pinochet and his regime was almost universal except for the usa because his coup took place in a. Periodo 19731990 historia politica biblioteca del congreso. The allegations concerned the murder of spanish citizens in chile, which offences were within the jurisdiction of spain.