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[email protected] appears to have vanished! We can still see cached content from this link, but goodbye I guess! :'(
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Also, those claiming to have no source on Powell being on the team that negotiated Pinochet's release, only prove they've not only not actually gone looking for one, but haven't even read op article, where the source is linked:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/jan/07/chile.pinochet
And it isn't the only contemporary source, either:
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2001/08/chil-a30.html
As well as sources that confirms that Powell promoted deals with Saudi Arabia for a company that also paid £1m to Pinochet:
https://caat.org.uk/news/2005-09-27-2/
You can make as many excuses as you want to make yourselves feel better, but it will never magic these people in to being on our side as citizens.
Thank you.
The guardian article is also the second result for "Jonathan Powell pinochet" on google.
Sure thing, the lengths some people will go to to defend their cognitive dissonance is ridiculous..
All the article states is that Powell had meetings with the chief of press for President Frei's government... the government that indicted and arrested Pinochet.
The government that engineered his escape from standing trial for genocide, then indicted him for "kidnapping" only to dismiss the case.
This article Guardian article, on top of just being an allegation in a book, doesn't accuse Powell of doing what Skwawkbox says he did.
Literally all it says is that the press chief of the 1999 Chilean government (i.e. 10 years and two governments after Pinochet stepped down) had meetings with Powell. That's it.
Frei and his government, by the way, was anti-Pinochet. During his presidency, he indicted and arrested Pinochet.
I don't know how you could read that and think it's a confirmation that Powell negotiated release for Pinochet.
Stop spreading misinformation.