Finally: Compensation for Chilean victims

February 26, 2005 8:25 PM

Finally: Compensation for Chilean victims and possible new trial for Pinochet. No small thanks to Spanish Judge Baltasar Garzon.
posted by adamvasco (6 comments total)

Yay.
posted by Pretty_Generic at 8:35 PM on February 26, 2005

Riggs Bank and the CIA, via Slate
posted by adamvasco at 9:20 PM on February 26, 2005

odd. there was recently an investigation into the abuses during pinochet's years and the report (in spanish) could be found on the govt web page. one of the apendices included god knows how many thousands of names and all those people are going to receive some kind of compensation. the offer was initially around 100 pounds a month (about the minimum wage), but there were protests that it was too low. since then i've not heard any more, but haven't been following the news much.

so, anyway, there is going to be compensation anyway, independently of whatever this bank is doing.
posted by andrew cooke at 11:47 AM on February 27, 2005

here's the report. and this is the list of victims (658 pages, over 27,000 names).

some of the report is quite disturbing/NSFW if you speak spanish.
posted by andrew cooke at 11:50 AM on February 27, 2005

(so, doing the maths, the bank's payout would be enough for about three month's minimum wage for each victim)
posted by andrew cooke at 11:53 AM on February 27, 2005

sorry; i mixed pounds and dollars, so it would be significantly less. point being that chileans are giving decent compensation to the victims, not rich american banks looking for a little (relatively) cheap PR.
posted by andrew cooke at 5:56 AM on February 28, 2005