Alleged Pinochet victim turns up alive in Chile

AP ^ | Nov 18, 2008 | EDUARDO GALLARDO

[Tailgunner Joe]

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP)

[VOA]

file this thread under:

Reports of my death have been exaggerated

my imperfect recollection of something written by Mark Twain...

[posterchild]

The Mendoza Malbec is very good. Perhaps he lost track of time...

[VOA]

But Cofre apparently was released, and fled to the Argentine city
of Mendoza, where he established a new family.

Cofre could have been an inspiration for Paul Simon's
"Fifty Ways To Leave Your Lover"
(or your previous spouse)

[T. Buzzard Trueblood]

No one was ever been tried on charges of killing Cofre

Oh, but I'm sure that somewhere in Chile a prosecutor was working on it...

[PAR35]

Oh, but I'm sure that somewhere in Chile a prosecutor was working on it.

Or Spain.

[T. Buzzard Trueblood]

Yeah, Baltazar Garzon probably has the file on his desk.

[Tailgunner Joe]

Controversy rages in Spain over end of probe into Franco's crimes - Nov 19, 2008 - Madrid - Controversy was raging in Spain on Wednesday over a prominent judge's decision to drop the country's first judicial investigation into alleged human rights crimes during the 1936-39 civil war and General Francisco Franco's subsequent 36-year dictatorship. Representatives of Franco's victims claimed that judge Baltasar Garzon had acted under pressure, while conservative commentators said he did not have jurisdiction over Franco's crimes. National Court magistrate Garzon announced Tuesday he would not continue investigating Franco's crimes, because the dictator and others potentially responsible for the abuses were no longer alive.

The conservative daily El Mundo accused the judge of having broken legal norms in what it described as his search for notoriety. Garzon became internationally known when seeking the extradition of former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet in 1998. He has also investigated human rights violations in other Latin American countries and Africa. Conservative analysts accuse the leftist judge of only handling high-profile cases, and ridiculed him for requesting Franco's death certificate, given that all of Spain knew the dictator to have died in 1975. Garzon's probe into Franco's crimes was opposed by the public prosecutor's office and some judges at his own court. The prosecutors appealed against the inquiry, questioning Garzon's stance that Franco's abuses constituted crimes against humanity, and arguing that they had been covered by an amnesty granted to the dictator's collaborators in 1977.

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

Or Belgium.

[Bon mots]

The Commies lost that one and we hear whining ever since.