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[14 Apr 2011 | No Comment | ]

Chile’s Human Rights Museum Reopens
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Santiago’s Museum of Memory and Human Rights will reopen this Saturday after being closed to the public for nearly six months following February’s earthquake.

The museum …

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[27 Jul 2010 | 9 Comments | ]

“Pinochet’s arrest and court judgement was all a lie…Everything they say is leftist propaganda and it’s accepted as the true version of Chilean history today.”

Published in La Nación, 2009

Hermógenez Peréz de Arce sat in… Continue reading

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[21 Jul 2010 | One Comment | ]
Hermógenes Peréz de Arce is a Chilean politician and journalist most famous, or infamous, for his column published since 1982 in El Mercurio, Chile’s leading newspaper.  Señor Peréz de Arce took, and continues to take, a public stance defending the former military dictator, General Augusto Pinochet, and  has been quoted as saying “Twentieth-century historians will remember  Pinochet as the best statesman Chile has ever seen” (elnavhegable.com, Cesar