Pope to meet with victims of Chile's dictatorship on trip
Nicole Winfield, Associated Press
Updated 8:24am, Thursday, January 11, 2018
VATICAN CITY (AP) Pope Francis will meet with two victims of Chile's military dictatorship during his upcoming trip, and isn't ruling out a private encounter with victims of clerical sex abuse, the Vatican said Thursday.
Spokesman Greg Burke made the comments in announcing details of the Jan. 15-21 trip to Chile and Peru, Francis' 22nd foreign trip and sixth to his home continent of South America.
The encounter with two victims of the 1973-1990 Pinochet regime will take place Jan. 18 in the northern city of Iquique. Burke didn't provide details other than to say they would give Francis a letter.
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In neighboring Chile, after a bloody coup brought Gen. Augusto Pinochet to power, around 40,000 people were killed, tortured or imprisoned for political reasons. The government estimates that 3,095 were killed, including about 1,200 who were forcibly disappeared.
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Pres. Richard Nixon's Sec. of State Henry Kissinger and their assisted dictator, General Augusto Pinochet.
