Chilean secret police head accused of murder, torture taught 13 years for Pentagon

[Ichingcarpenter]

SANTIAGO, CHILE — A member of the late Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet’s brutal secret police who’s been accused of murder taught for more than a decade at the Pentagon’s premier university, despite repeated complaints by his colleagues about his past.

Jaime Garcia Covarrubias is charged in criminal court in Santiago with being the mastermind in the execution-style slayings of seven people in 1973, according to court documents. McClatchy also interviewed an accuser who identified Garcia Covarrubias as the person who sexually tortured him.

Despite knowing of the allegations, State and Defense department officials allowed Garcia Covarrubias to retain his visa and continue working at a school affiliated with the National Defense University until last year .

Human rights groups also question the school’s selection of a second professor, Colombia’s former top military commander.

Some Latin America experts said the hirings by the William J. Perry Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies reflected a continuing inclination by the U.S government to overlook human rights violations in Latin America, especially in countries where it funded efforts to quash leftists.

But those experts were especially troubled by Garcia Covarrubias’ long tenure at one of the nation’s most renowned defense institutions.

Read more here: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2015/03/12/259553/chilean-accused-of-murder-torture.html#storylink=cpy

[roody]

1. Join the resistance.

School of the Americas Watch

http://soaw.org/

[sabrina 1]

2. There is no statute of limitations on War Crimes. US War Criminals, take note.

And they are taking note which is why the US is still trying to, and succeeding, see Honduran Coup, to topple democratically elected leaders in that region of the world.

If we really cared about Human Rights, at least on this forum, this OP would be at the top of the rec list.

I do remember that we USED to care.

It is shameful how many of these war criminals, including Kissinger et al, are given not just safe haven in this country, but positions of power.

Can we deny any longer that we are rarely on the side of the 'good guys' and appear to have a national affinity with the bad guys, going back decades now?