Chile's former dictator General Augusto Pinochet was arrested, in Chile.The terms of the amnesty he negotiated upon his abdication included murder but not kidnapping, and the bodies of nineteen people who were abducted by the "Caravan of death," a helicopter-borne death squad led by one of Pinochet's close aides, were never found, world-historical ruthlessness giving rise to world-historical irony—which then devolved into farce when an appeals court suspended the arrest order.
Weekly Review
Weekly Review
Weekly Review
Chile's former dictator General Augusto Pinochet was arrested, in Chile.The terms of the amnesty he negotiated upon his abdication included murder but not kidnapping, and the bodies of nineteen people who were abducted by the "Caravan of death," a helicopter-borne death squad led by one of Pinochet's close aides, were never found, world-historical ruthlessness giving rise to world-historical irony—which then devolved into farce when an appeals court suspended the arrest order.