Pinochet's wife and kids are going down

Thu04Oct2007

Pinochet's wife and kids are going down

11:50 H | Topics: Chile - Crime - Justice - Politics

Chilean justice is catching up with former dictator Augusto Pinochet even after his death. A judge has ordered that 23 family members and "collaborators" of Pinochet be rounded up and tried, among them his widow and children.

Among those to be tried by Judge Carlos Cerda are the widow, Lucía Hiriart, and the 5 children of the leader, who died in December 2006 while on trial for fraud and using false passports.

The children of Pinochet, Augusto, Lucía, Verónica, Jacqueline and Marco Antonio, have already been involved in the investigation. Also involved are retired generals Guillermo Garín and Jorge Ballerino, both ex-chiefs of the so-called Casa Militar, which was a military committee which Pinochet maintained during the later years of his dictatorship.

It's nice to see that the Chilean government isn't letting this rest, especially when so many political crimes in Latin America have gone unpunished.

Via / El País