CHILE: Pinochet - end of an era?

Augusto Pinochet, both as an individual and an ideologue, is under close scrutiny. On 13 August, the 88-year old former dictator was questioned by Judge Sergio Muñoz over his multimillion dollar secret bank accounts held at Riggs Bank; his first interview with a judge since being ruled mentally unfit to stand trial in 2002. On 22 August it emerged that the US Justice Department had furnished Muñoz with the details of five other secret bank accounts Pinochet held in the US. In separate but related developments, the Chilean congress has recently approved both the declassification of secret laws promulgated during the dictatorship and the setting-up of a cross-party committee to examine the privatisation of state-owned companies between 1973 and 1990.

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