Chile court overturns murder verdict in ex-president Eduardo Frei's death

[Judi Lynn]

YESTERDAT

23:05

Judges in Chile says ex-president Eduardo Frei's death four decades ago was not murder, overruling a 15-year investigation which concluded he was poisoned in hospital by agents of dictator Augusto Pinochet.


Appeals judges in Chile said Monday ex-president Eduardo Frei's death four decades ago was not murder, overruling a 15-year investigation which concluded he was poisoned in hospital by agents of dictator Augusto Pinochet.

The panel of three judges cleared all six people convicted and sentenced to jail two years ago over Frei's death.

The ex-president's family and political party cried foul, however, and vowed to have the latest ruling overturned.

"We will point to the evidence that [investigating magistrate Alejandro] Madrid accumulated in the long investigation to show that it was murder," Frei's family said in a statement issued by their lawyers.

More:
https://www.batimes.com.ar/news/latin-america/chile-court-overturns-murder-verdict-in-ex-president-eduardo-freis-death.phtml

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The current President of Chile, Sebastián Piñera, has been a supporter of the bloody butcher puppet dictator, Augusto Pinochet, whom many believe commissioned the assassination.

Description of people chosen for Sebastián Piñera's administration with connections to mass murdering/torturing Pinochet:

Cabinet
In January 2018, Piñera unveiled his cabinet to harsh criticism: his interior minister, Andrés Chadwick, was a vocal supporter of Pinochet dictatorship, which had previously appointed him president of the Catholic University Students Federation.[92] In 2012 Chadwick expressed "deep repentance" for this support after discovering "over the years" serious human rights violations committed by the dictatorship, while defending the regime on other grounds.[93]

Chadwick and justice minister Hernán Larraín were also "supporters and defenders of the secretive German enclave Colonia Dignidad, which was established by the fugitive Nazi officer and paedophile Paul Schäfer in the early 60s".[92] Colonia Dignidad was used by Pinochet security officials to torture and murder opponents of the regime.[92][94]

Other appointees with ties to the Pinochet includes mining minister Baldo Prokurica, a governor in the Pinochet government.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sebasti%C3%A1n_Pi%C3%B1era

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Sebastián Piñera's brother, from Pinochet's administration:




José Piñera Echenique (born October 6, 1948) is a Chilean economist, one of the famous Chicago Boys, who served as minister of Labor and Social Security, and of Mining, in the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet.[1] He is the architect of Chile's private pension system based on personal retirement accounts. Piñera has been called "the world's foremost advocate of privatizing public pension systems"[2] as well as "the Pension Reform Pied Piper" (by the Wall Street Journal).[3] He is now Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank based in Washington, President of the International Center for Pension Reform based in Santiago, Senior Fellow at the Italian libertarian think tank Istituto Bruno Leoni, and member of the Advisory Board of the Vienna-based Educational Initiative for Central and Eastern Europe. He has a master's degree and a Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University. Piñera is a Board Member in Chile and an active supporter of SOS Children's Villages, the largest orphan and abandoned children's charity in the world. Today, Piñera is director of the magazine Economía y Sociedad, that was relaunched in November 2016.

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Economic reformer
Overall review
After promoting a plan of free market reforms that he considered could double Chile's annual rate of growth to 7%, he became, first, Secretary of Labor and Social Security (1978–1980), and then, Secretary of Mining (1980–1981), in the cabinet of General Augusto Pinochet. As such, he was responsible for four structural reforms: the creation of a retirement system based on private personal accounts (the AFP system), the opening of the private health and disability insurance system, the redesign of the labor code changing the terms of trade union elections, and the constitutional law on mining. Piñera entered the cabinet in December 1978 when Chile faced two serious external threats: a possible war with Argentina over the disputed Beagle Islands and a trade boycott by the American AFL-CIO labor confederation. Piñera quickly announced that Chile would soon promulgate a new trade union law reestablishing labor democracy in Chile (suspended since the coup d'état, September 11, 1973) and a new collective bargaining law. At the same time, the Vatican offered mediation over the Beagle Islands.

More:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Pi%C3%B1era

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There's every reason to believe when Chile gets a non-fascist President again, this political move will be voided, and the truth reinstated.