Pope to meet with victims of Chile's dictatorship on trip

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

Nicole Winfield, Associated Press
 Updated 8:24 am, 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.

[sandensea]

1. Good. His voice matters. Pope Francis recently met with family of Santiago Maldonado as well.

[Judi Lynn]

2. Martyred by the State in defense of the human rights violations by the same administration.

Santiago Maldonado's family look like very good people, too.

It was important that Pope Francis made his stand with the family, so wildly abused and betrayed by the Macri administration as it builds toward a conspicuous dictatorship, suppressing all dissent, destroying all dissenters.

It's important to reiterate what has been discussed already, the fact Macri and the Liar-in-Chief are mutual admirers.

[sandensea]

3. And in very Trumpian fashion, Macri just promoted Maldonado's apparent killer

Emmanuel Echazú, the Gendarmerie (militarized police) officer whom witnesses saw struggling with Maldonado at the river edge - whereupon he apparently drowned him by pushing his head down into the water.

Lt. Echazú shortly after the unauthorized (and thereby illegal) Gendarmerie raid on the Mapuche protest camp on August 1. Many believe the injury on his cheek to have taken place while he held Maldonado's head in the water.