The article below is from today's "Democracy Now" program (www.democracynow.org) with Amy Goodman.
A court in Chile has ruled that the U.S. played a "fundamental" role in the killing of my good friend Frank Teruggi and another North American in l973, during the time that I lived Chile, where "the other 9/11" happened. Today's NY Times also has an article on this court decision some 40 years after the militaries began to dominate the Southern Cone of the Americas.
Having lived in Chile when it became a military-dominated country, I have been concerned that the U.S. is increasingly moving in that direction. I feel it in my bones. We have a militarized police force, as demonstrated by Iraq veteran deputy sheriff Erik Gelhaus murdering an innocent boy with a toy gun in Santa Rosa.
Chilean Court Rules U.S. Had Key Role in 1973 Killings of 2 Americans
In Chile, a court has ruled that U.S. military intelligence services played a "fundamental" role in the 1973 killings of two Americans in the days after Augusto Pinochet seized power in a U.S.-backed coup. The court ruling, released Monday, finds former U.S. Navy Captain Ray Davis, who was then commander of the U.S. military mission in Chile, gave Chilean officials information that led to the deaths of journalist Charles Horman and student Frank Teruggi. Davis died last year in Chile, where he lived even as a Chilean court approved his extradition, believing he was in Florida. Charles Horman’s widow Joyce Horman told the Associated Press she was "delighted" to see the case moving ahead but "outraged" that "through death and delay, a key indicted U.S. official, Captain Ray Davis, has escaped this prosecutorial process." (Watch our interview with Joyce Horman last year around the 40th anniversary of the killings and the coup.)