the former chilean dictator, augusto pinochet died in a hostpital at the age, 91.why the us and its allies did not make any attempts to punish him for the crimes he did in chile.he ruthlessly dethrowned the democratically elected government and en massed millions of dolors in secret foreign accounts. he was found to have at least 128 secret accounts, and scores of fake pass ports and holding more than 100 million dolors.more than 1200 people dead under mysterious conditions during his rule, whose remains were never found and are believed to have been dumped into the ocean or dropped into volcano craters. why the us and its most obedient allies maintained stoic silence over the cruelties of Pinochet? why this double standards?
2006-12-11 04:34:45 · 7 answers · asked by nightingale 6 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Maybe the fact that the CIA helped to overthrow Salvador Allende and put Pinochet into power, and helped to prop him up prevented us from prosecuting him.
The US foreign policy is riddled with double standards. They lie in bed with authoritarian governments when it serves their purposes, then turn on them when it is convenient. See Noriega, Saddam Hussein, et al.
2006-12-11 04:41:08 · answer #1 · answered by Michael E. 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
the two a blessing and a alleviation. mutually as that's actual than in prepare Marxism would not paintings, one the two works for all peoples to have a superb to choose on or one is an elitist. I stroll a tightrope between freedom and Plato's Republic, yet usually what he did grew to become into undesirable and set a foul occasion; if the U.S. have been to have had a greater robust impact in South united statesa. it could desire to have accompanied a greater conciliatory physique of recommendations, enormously with Cuba so interior sight. yet we additionally helped defeat the Communists in Italy with comparable methods (in spite of the undeniable fact that not as bloody). So mutually because it quite is actual the international is greater effective without Marxist regimes, although the methods have been immoral. so which you the two have faith that the ends justify the skill, or you do not. i don't except it escalates to the point of a Hitler. precisely the place it crosses the line remains a stable undertaking for debate .......
2016-10-14 11:21:39 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He wasn't given the death penalty because no court ever decided to. That was because he still had enough supporters in Chile to keep his case tied up in legalities till he died.
The US and its allies never attempted to punish Pinochet because, for one thing, he hadn't broken any of their laws. Another reason was, they had helped him gain & maintain power and considered his administration to be better than the alternatives at the time, and more in their own national interests.
2006-12-11 04:51:37 · answer #3 · answered by yahoohoo 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Pinochet was supported by Nixon.
2006-12-11 06:36:58 · answer #4 · answered by Mysterio 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It was in the works.
2006-12-11 04:41:11 · answer #5 · answered by CaptainObvious 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
They were working on it. Every time they would get close to a trial, he would get sick or some other distraction.
2006-12-11 04:40:12 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
they probably just felt that he was going to die anyway so why kill him
2006-12-11 04:37:47 · answer #7 · answered by veronica leigh 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋