Pinochets son mining permit application causes controversy in Chile
Valentina Ruiz Leotaud | about 4 hours ago
Earlier this week the Chilean press learned about an application for a mining concession presented before Quilpué’s First Municipal Court by Augusto Pinochet Hiriart, the son of former dictator Augusto Pinochet.
According to local media, back in February, Pinochet requested a “license to exploit a copper, gold, silver and other minerals” in an area near the city of Quilpué, which is located in the Marga-Marga province of the in the central region of Valparaíso.
The filing introduced before the court describes a 65-hectare property divided into 13 different segments which would be named Augusto 1 to the 13. If Pinochet’s request is approved, La Tercera newspaper states that he would require an initial investment of $100 million.
The focus of the operation, however, would not be the precious metals but “an element that is extracted from sand to manufacture refractory materials used by the mining industry,” the daily says.
More:
http://www.mining.com/pinochets-son-mining-permit-application-causes-controversy-chile/
Augusto Pinochet Documentary Sparks Protests Over Chilean Dictator's Legacy
By LUIS ANDRES HENAO 06/10/12 02:06 PM ET
SANTIAGO, Chile — The poster makes its plea from one of the pock-marked walls once splattered with blood at Londres 38, a former detention and torture center where 96 people were killed or disappeared during Chile's long dictatorship. It reads: "Pinochet, may your legacy die."
Yet that legacy is far from dead. Gen. Augusto Pinochet's loyalists on Sunday held their biggest gathering since his death in 2006, and it has ignited a national debate about the limits of freedom of speech as groups on the other side sought to block the event and then staged protests to try to disrupt it.
Police used tear gas and water cannons to try to disperse hundreds of anti-Pinochet demonstrators protesting the premiere of a documentary about the run-up to his dictatorship years. The film casts him as a national hero who saved Chile from communism and who died victimized by vengeful leftists who accused him of embezzlement and human rights crimes.
Inside the theater, thousands of the former strongman's backers, known as "Pinochetistas" waved Chilean flags and held up photos of Pinochet. When his grandson, retired Captain Augusto Pinochet Molina, took the stage, they gave him a long standing ovation.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/10/augusto-pinochet-documentary_n_1584703.html
Augusto Pinochet Hiriart, Pinochet son,
and School of the Americas graduate
Torture and murder-loving US-supported dictator
Pinochet and his always lovely wife, Lucia Hiriart.
Lucia takes a lipstick break at an event,
drawing admiring glances, of course.
Pops Pinochet.
Perhaps he had gotten his first pair
of prescription sun glasses and refused to
take them off, so thrilled with them.
Pinochet's widow under investigation on suspicion of swindling millions
Prosecutors accuse Lucia Hiriart of siphoning funds from sales of government properties through the NGO she ran to pay off Pinochet’s living expenses
Jonathan Franklin in Chile
@FranklinBlog
Fri 19 Aug 2016 06.00 EDT
Lucia Hiriart, the widow of Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, is under investigation for allegedly swindling the Chilean treasury of millions of dollars by selling properties designated as community centers.
A report by Chilean prosecutors also accuses Hiriart, 93, of siphoning funds from the NGO she ran, CEMA Chile, to pay General Pinochet’s living expenses in the United Kingdom while he was under house arrest following .
Chile’s minister of public property, Víctor Osorio, told the Guardian that prosecutors are preparing to file formal charges over allegations that CEMA Chile misappropriated millions of dollars in government funds.
During her 43 years at the head of the organisation, Hiriart oversaw the sale of dozens of government properties which had been donated to the foundation. Chilean officials say that profits from the sales were transferred abroad or simply disappeared.
More:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/aug/19/pinochet-widow-lucia-hiriart-cema-chile
