he grew up in this germanized south of chile. after world war ii, he admired the spanish dictator francesco franco. when pinochet and his allies overthrew the president on september 11th, 1973, contreras was in on it. on september 10th, his son fretted over an english examine the next day. contreras looked at him and smiled, don't worry, you're not going to school tomorrow. right after the coup, pinochet made contreras the head of the national intelligence directorate known as dina. a colonel, contreras answered to no general, minister or judge. only to pinochet. dina dominated all other intelligence agencies. its 9,300 employees could raid homes and jail suspects without charges and it's 20 to 30,000 informants spread fear throughout other chilean government agencies. it's logo featuring an iron glove, dina was responsible for about 1,200 of the 3,200 executions under pinochet. the association between dina and fascism were it was alleged that its employees engaged in rituals harking back to bygone warrior myths. the use of ruins

he is eventually sent back to chile, but at this point, the courts of chile have really turned around, and they put him on the docket and accuse him of all these crimes, and he dies before he is ever found guilty of any of them. none of hisfor crimes, but it is interesting that in the early 1990's, while contreras is being accused of these things -- and he's appearing on tv all the time -- he starts mildly accusing pinochet of actually being the guy who gave them the order. right? to put the hit on letelier. he never says the words "pinochet did it," but he says things like, "everything i did, i did because el jefe told me to do it. everything i did as the head of d.i.n.a." at some point, they even have a shouting match against this. pinochet saying, "no, no, no, i just gave you general directions to deal with subversives. i did not tell you to kill anyone." so it is not absolutely clear from those conversations and those shouting matches what contreras really meant. contreras' explanation for this particular crime was always the same. until he died, he said the cia did it, and michae

chile is accustomed to frequent and strong earthquakes. like an unprecedented social outburst that exploded clean weeks ago sending much deeper shock waves throughout what was seen as latin america's most stable and prosperous democracy of the it was sparked off by a relatively small increase in the metro fare but millions of chileans sought as the last straw and took to the streets to show that they've had enough of an economic system that they say hasn't delivered its promise of prosperity except for an increasingly wealthy few 57 year old drug has worked as a maid all her life her eldest son and husband were can construction and became unemployed this week like millions of middle and lower middle class chileans they're deep in debt and struggling just to feed themselves i mean but the most worst is yet to come yesterday i was on the bus with a 75 year old pensioner who still works as a maid because her pension is one $136.00 which is more than i'll get no one can survive on that we'll all have to work till we drop dead. overhauling chil

country of chile. it's important to note also that the chilean ambassador's residence is right over there. not the embassy but the chilean ambassador's residence. on the morning of september 21st, the chilean ambassador actually heard the bombing. he was in the shower, right? gave him a stir. he came down and he was wondering what was going on. turns in he wasn't in on this assassination at all, even though it was his government that did it, but later on, of course, he trumpeted the version of events of the pinochet regime which is that there is no way his government could have done this. it must have been some leftist guerillas trying to pin it on pinochet, but it's important that the residence is there because the residence itself now has a bust of orlando letelier to try to remember him also, and so around the circle we have these two memorials to this one man and, of course, to ronni moffitt. and so sheridan circle will be marked forever in the heart of washington, d.c. by this assassination. >>> h

chile is actually the lowest ranked nation and finally we will use unemployment which is a little bit chaotic here at the start of our graph in the early ninety's just over 5 percent it is for chile but as we head back and look at 1st of all the blue line argentina up to 19 percent venezuela is in bad shape as well by $27.00 tane we're looking at actually an increase in unemployment in chile up to 7 percent but it's still below the levels of venezuela brazil and argentina so what you're seeing there was a country that was doing well but seems to have lost its way in a moment we will make sense of all of this with our guest from the economist magazine but 1st our latin america editor alysia newman in santiago with more on the protests the cause and the effect. chile is accustomed to frequent and strong earthquakes was an unprecedented social outburst that exploded plain weeks ago sending much deeper shock waves throughout what was seen as latin america's most stable and prosperous democracy. it was sparked off by a relatively small increase in the metro fare but millions of chileans sa

bachelet did d not come to chile. she sent a committee, but w we still have not heaeard anything from that committee yet. but the human rights sitituation is very difficult right now because the police general, the director of the police in chile is saying he is not going to expel any officer involved in human rights violations. was leaked in the institution confirm that that he said that he was not going to expel any officer involved in human rights violations. ththat is terribible because wee there is a situation that the riot police, the armed forces in our country, are not being regulated by any civilian authority. nermeen: pablo, in addition to the number of people who have been wounded, there have also been over 5000 people arrested. can you talk about what their situation is and what prospects there are for hearing or for the release? arare some ofof them being r re, have been released? report -- the last report from the national rights institute wawas four days ago.o. that was before the e general strike on tu

so let's have a look at economic inequality in chile this comes from the o.e.c.d. is the most unequal country among the developed nations income inequality gap is 65 percent wider than the average for o.e.c.d. countries and incomes of the richest some more than 25 times those of the poorest this is a little bit confusing when you think of chile as being described as an economic miracle where it will start years ago where it is right now is is really amazing in terms of economics why are people in the street saying we can barely stop working and why in our retirement yes what went wrong. well that then you have to blame that pension system that. that was bringing during the day to ship by the brother of the president peña by the way but i would say that the protest of not only for economic terms you know it's not only money it's in satisfaction with the quality of life we have here in my movie in the to goggle's movie i made one of the to go boys said i don't care about inequality i do care about poor because in the qualities only i think of envy you know like if y

the ground 0 1st it was 49 years ago this month that salvador allende was inaugurated as president of chile the latin american country today is not only in the midst of an uprising against the liberal president sebastian pinera but witnessing solidarity protests for palestine after more u.k. armed violence in the middle east involving serial un resolution violator israel in the past 24 hours i into would die in office overthrown and replaced by anglo american backed dictator augusto pinochet and according to some leaders fighting global neoliberalism the legacy of pinochet lives on. board they don't want to lections they want a coup d'etat and wipe us away in a pinochet style. sometimes we say these hard things and in europe and other places they see it as an exaggeration or extremist and it's not exaggerated they want to put a pinochet in place in venezuela i mean they're not signed today democratically elected maduro may still be in power in venezuela custodian of the world's greatest known reserves of oil even after attempts by the european union to overthrow him but in chile washington'

as a chronicle of politics foretold the legacy of new liberal dictatorship stupina shane chile. well thanks 1st of all for this interview it's very important where the sap and here in chile we within not only because of our country but also for the region and also because as you said she lost in the seventy's in the eighty's under the dictatorship she doesn't like an experiment of the no liberal policies we doubt our democratic process you know under a dictatorship so it today we. are leading. in the rules that the colored boys as we said to this academicians who passed with milton friedman's policies before the newlyweds in the rest of the world to worst their 1st experiment in the last 30 or 40 years has implemented to our development who is mainly focused on the concentration of our economy and the trickle down economy. ideology this demonstrations have relieved or release some energy who was very tied up in sight of the people who said mind of the people hearts that it wasn't able to get to the end of the months without having to spend with credit so i think that when everyt

the current economic situation and chile for us. great so the people are protesting there only because of a specific. rate so the people are protesting there only because of a specific measures in terms of the public transport or the electricity costs that were recently fick measures in terms of the plug the public transport or the electricity costs that were recently undone but in general because of economic inequality and what i would call undone but in general because of economic inequality and what i would call political inequality so there in chile we have a crisis of political ripple it go inequalities so there in chile we have a crisis of political representation the roots of the us come from that been or should dictate the ship more than presentation the roots of the use come from that been or should dictate to you more than 30 years ago pinochet drafted he wrote up 1 a constitution for cheating the 30 years ago pinochet drafted he wrote up a constitution for cheating the that's still in force and this constitution looks lik

and that will take place on the heart of november in chile that will probably have. chansons and terms of the proprietor tests. now we touch on that on the surface of the of the on rest in. which i just list largely due to a change in increase in simple public transit is a fact as as and many many protesters just as tight overall economic inequality so overall i just cannot predicate the quality current economic situation so couldn't and she didn't say break down the current economic situation and for us. great for us. great so the people are protesting that only because of a specific measures in terms of the club so the people are protesting that only because of a specific measures in terms of the public transport or the electricity costs that were recently undone but in general the transport or the electricity costs that were recently undone but in general because of economic inequality and what i would call political inequality so then are all because of economic inequality and what i would call political inequality so there in chile we have a crisis of political

correspondent nic joins us now from santiago chile. are people going to these kinds of democratic meetings because they are now too scared to take to the streets. oh not at all this is for them the next step it's taking the movement to another level a lot of the people who were at this could build oh do go to the protest marches in the streets so this is more of a complimentary action of civil disobedience so to say they go out to the streets to make their discomfort for many heard and then among themselves they sit down and work out ways to to build a better country the government has picked up on this by the way and is now setting up their own citizens assemblies but oddly enough some of the people i talked to at this could build oh said that they're not ready yet to sit down with the government they 1st want to want to figure out what their demands are they want to build a strong community and then go and present these demands to the government when they're ready for it ok so what's been happening in santiago today. unsurprisingly m

no where in latin america is media ownership as concentrated as it is in chile which partly explains why the conflicts on the streets are not limited to protesters taking on security forces those protestors are also targeting journalists. and. television channels and mainstream radio have not carried balanced coverage and haven't reported the ill feeling on the street what t.v. channels have done is to remain on the side of the ruling class opinion makers and expert but what is the underlying issue is that the near liberal capitalist model is at the expense of social rights rights that was stone and during the dictatorship and which remains hijacked as neo liberalism with deep and democratic governments. you know. what has happened here is enormous protests fueled by social outrage and the media has felt but willed it. to manage the situation this is a movement that doesn't have leaders converting the masses represents them who can journalists dialogue with how can t.v. manage process and present the social movement. we have to remember that almost the entire media actually belongs t

that has been in place in chile is now under review all constitution has been set in place in chile is now under review and it has an impact throughout the chilean economy look for example you and it has an impact throughout the chilean economy look for example one of the consequences of the apec cancellation in chile is the fact that now that one of the consequences of the apec cancellation in chile is the fact that now there is low political will to approve chillis and here in. so the there is low political will to approve chillis here in to the b.p. the trans-pacific partnership agreement the same agreement that b.p. the trans-pacific partnership agreement the same agreement is not going to be ratified by the trumpet ministration so we see similar tenets here in the board to be ratified by the trumpet ministration so we see similar tenets here in the terms of how liberal globalization has affected the structure of terms of how liberal globalization has affected the structure of economic inequality in the american countries as well as economic inequality in the american countries

with the chile mining disaster, greeting those miners. he wants to project chile abroad. he has now had to cancel two major summits. how difficult a moment is this for chile's president? it is a disaster for the chilean president and the government. the apec summit with xi jinping and donald trump possibly signing a trade deal there, it would be a major step for chile, chilean business. and, of course, the climate summit — the first big climate summit after paris. it would be the best opportunity for chile to show the country in its full force and for pinera to show himself as a world leader. so, yeah, for him this has been tragic. terrible to have to be forced to cancel these summits. britain has become the latest european country to halt fracking for oil and gas because of safety concerns. the government withdrew its support after a report by its oil and gas authority warned that it wasn't possible to predict the size or timing of any earthquakes that the process might trigger. france and germany, have already banned onshore fracking and it has been controversial in t

in santiago chile thanks. the protesters in iraq are accusing security forces of firing live rounds of people who are blocking a bridge in the country's capital demonstrations against the government started early last month and since then more than $260.00 people have been killed and thousands injured the military has called on people to stop blocking roads ports and oil refineries saying it is costing the country billions of dollars. gunfire ricochets around the streets of central baghdad. demonstrators trying to take shelter as bullets rained down fired witnesses say by iraqi security forces. since tuesday anti-government protesters have been blocking a major bridge in the capital. police want them gone oh i didn't let the united nations see they use life bullets we're human beings protesting and demanding our rights how are you a leo does he fill got severely beaten look at what they did to my leg and my hand they started shooting live ammunition at us. per chance of also broken out in on the parts of iraq

and the national broadcaster is no different like other state owned institutions in chile it has had a neo liberal make over t.v. and is reliant on ad revenues in a way public broadcasters in other countries are not leading to coverage that leans towards the sensation of. the. west see watching the news i remember very clearly the screen divided into this t.v. and on one side of the screen you had a fire in the street and this one. this fire on of the screen the most important thing visually was this fire and what does it mean fire in a context like this means riots danger. the form of media that dominates chillies streets is social it's where protesters organize get their news and share stories of news coverage that fall short and it isn't just domestic news outlets and reporters feeling the heat foreign journalists are too now the hike in the metro al-jazeera is correspondent to resupply was targeted after this life get stuck at the fringes of a protest for technical reasons she had demonstrators going after her not for anything she said but because of what her camera will show you

the mining robots have attracted a lot of interest in chile and abroad. the head of the parent company doesn't believe that investors will be put off by the current protests in the country he says investments in the mining sector tend to be long term. the biggest good. and it will ripple korea will through history but at the moment we're in a phase of uncertainty. but as a country we have a tradition that shows that we overcome crises. in the world knows that were reputable serious country that is currently in a process of transformation. but many economists are more skeptical they say it's hard to predict how long the protests will continue. to look for foreign investors already have less confidence in chilo and we can already observe some capital flight from the country go. even in the office districts in the capital santiago the situation is palpable many companies send their employees home at midday to keep them safe businesses barricade their doors for fear of looting or vandalism. they hide their names hoping not to be attacked small and medium size

and the national broadcaster is no different like other state owned institutions in chile it has had a neo liberal make over t.v. and is reliant on ad revenues in a way public broadcasters in other countries are not leading to coverage that leans towards the sensation. the way you see west see watching the news i remember very clearly the screen divided into this t.v. and on one side of the screen you had a fire in the street and this went on. this fire on the screen the most important thing visually was this fire and what does it mean fire in a context like this means riots danger. the form of media that dominates chile streets is social it's where protesters organize get their news and share stories of news coverage that fall short and it isn't just domestic news outlets and reporters feeling the heat foreign journalists are too now the hike in the metro al-jazeera is correspondent to recent poll was targeted after this life get stuck at the fringes of a protest for technical reasons she had demonstrators going after her not for anything she said but because of what her camera will

we see pictures of chile's armed police using tear gas, water cannons to disperse protesters. according to human rights watch, grave human rights abuses are taking place. peace and stability are tantamount to new investments. yes, although it is true that the country is working. we had two first rough weeks in october, in the second half of october, in the second half of october, but exports are picking up. ports are working, logistics of working, and the country keeps doing business. so as we take care of protests, in cities, the country keeps doing its business, and for us it is important that we can also convey how the country is working for the rest of the stakeholders. business as usual, as you say, vice minister, but people are in the streets because of income inequality, high living costs and low wages. what is the government doing to address these serious issues? well, a very ambitious social agenda, which includes all of the topics that you had mentioned. raising minimum wages, talking about pensions, tax reforms, means to address also the living costs, and also at th

a partir de maÑana los chiles y tomates frescos de mÉxico, no podrÁn ingresar a estados unidos por los puentes internacionales, pero sÍ podrÁn hacerlo por las Áreas comerciales siempre y cuando cumplan con estrictas medidas sanitarias raÚl torres nesÁs detalles adelante. >> ni tomates ni chiles prohibidos pasarlo de mÉxico a estados unidos a partir de maÑana 22 de noviembre paulina, te saludo desde la capital mexicana, nadie, ningÚn productor, ninguna persona podÁa pasar estos productos en cruces internacionales y peatonales, los tomatess y chiles sÍ podrÁn pasar por pasos comerciales siempre y cuando no tengan el virus, es una medida de protecciÓn de estados unidos, sin embargo, este virus no afecpersonas, solamente a otras plantas oÍ otros productos lo que ocurre es que se ponen de color cafÉ, quien introduzca tomates como chiles podrÍan pagar una multa de 300 a 500 dÓlares, sin embargo, esta medida podrÁ afectar a los productores y consumidores en estados unidos, es que cada aÑo mÉxico exporta mÁs de 141 toneladas de tomate y mÁs de 981 mil tonelada de chile, aq

as a chronicle of politics for told the legacy of new liberal dictatorship stupid machine chile. well thanks 1st of all for this interview it's very important where the sap and here in chile we within knock only because of our country but also for the region and also because as you said she was in the in the seventy's in the eighty's under the dictatorship she doesn't like an experiment of the new liberal policies without a democratic process you know under a dictatorship so it today we. we're living in the in the rules that the boys as we said to this are going to missions who passed with milton friedman's police before the newlyweds in the rest of the world she was the 1st experiment in the last 30 or 40 years os implemented to our development who is mainly focused on the concentration of our economy and.

the order to put the bomb in there was given by the secret police of chile, and chile was ruled at the time by pinochet, a dictator, who didn't like the political activities that orlando letelier, a former ambassador to the united states from chile, was taking on in washington, and so we know now that it was the dictator who ordered the secret police to assassinate him. and so they did this partly through an american-chilean michael townley who came to washington, built the bomb with these cuban-americans and they put it under the car of letelier. they thought he would be alone and ended up having two american citizens with him. the car came down massachusetts, turned over here and exploded right here. this is where the two cuban-americans in the gray sedan pushed the button on this pager that set off the bomb. almost immediately the bomb blew off letelier's legs and within a few minutes he bled to death. there were car parts, body parts, broken windows, twisted metal all over this place. the car careened for something like 40, 60 feet, went several feet into the air, crashed down and

unrest in chile is boiling over as the gap between rich and poor catches up with latin america's most successful economy also on the program china is investing billions in artificial intelligence some of the applications are improving people's lives but there are concerns about how the technology could be used to exert state control. i'm chris cuomo welcome to the program chile is facing its biggest crisis since the south american nation returned to democracy in 1990 for a month now protests have rocked the country which have left more than 20 people dead and thousands injured the unrest began over a hike in metro fares but quickly spun out of control devolving into riots and looting kneecapping the economy along the way as a result the government promised to draft a new constitution to replace the current president's about stamping yet also admitted that security forces had met the demonstrators with access force. now chile is considered one of latin america's strongest economies growth this year is likely to be around 2 and a half percent but inequality is a huge problem just one pe

problems of lack of accountability and brutality of the national police of chile our urgent 0 'd no 7 not excessive use of force illegal detention sexual abuse brutal beatings against thousands of citizens including children as well as destroying or distorting incriminating evidence part of a long list of the bill says used to describe a security force that has not been overhauled since chile return to democracy indeed what different governments have done is to grant it regularly more and more powers to the police without much responsibility in other words we believe in complete. unlike his strong rejection of amnesty international's report president civil stamping it out quickly embraced recommendations to create a new modern police force that can be both. affective and guarantee respect for human rights. but in the same breath the president sent a request to congress to authorize the army to safeguard keep public service installations without calling for a state of emergency. much of our basic infrastructure like electricity drinking water and hospitals have been attacked but there'

another student leader is taken away illegally from her apartment building scenes reminiscent of chile's former military dictatorship. community activist danielle mina has been sleeping in a different place every night since she filed a complaint with chile's human rights institute so for security reasons he asks to meet us in a park and i would be said to me if i was beaten by the police and then they choked me for a long period that was in a 20 or 30 a police station of point 3 out of a. 1000 of them he was eventually released and then nearly lost his right eye 10 days ago when he was hit with a lead pellet during another protest you know what i guess. they operated on me here to take out the pellet to hit me here and fortunately got stuck in my eye socket and one of the lucky ones who didn't lose his eye i know people who have lost both eyes off to be shot by pellets and tear gas canisters. a mission from the u.n. commission for human rights is in chile investigating hundreds of charges of abuse is by security forces from illegal detail. to excessive use of force to torture and rape i

what an astonishing two weeks it has been for people in chile. president pinera has made concessions, p rotesto rs, pinera has made concessions, protestors, we have seen in the last hours, are still on the streets. what do they want? after the last couple of weeks of course the protests started two weeks ago, they we re protests started two weeks ago, they were more violent and more massive than we are seeing right now, after these two weeks, after if you reforms, after a cabinet shuffle from president pinera, what they are looking for a more profound reforms in chile. the most specific demands they are looking for is a new constitution. so at this moment we are seeing in santiago, but other cities throughout the country, people gathering in social gatherings, but also in marches, manifestations, discussions, debates, to talk about a possible new constitution and what this constitution would look like. boris, to be governor, the constitution was written during the pinochet military government in the early 1980s, house symbol would be for the coun

in chile a politician from the president's party has parked outrage by suggesting that normality can be restored without violating human rights senator. made the remarks hours before another round of anti-government protests and amnesty international report says chile's security forces have deliberately injured protesters during more than a month of demonstrations a lot america is in the sea and human is in santiago with more on the violence hostage to ation. this is the way that 1 may have come out. and there is. no peace without us this banner for example says against male chauvinism and it came community many are telling us that after $37.00 days of mass protests here in chile for social change the specific demands of women are still taking a back seat. everything they are saying is just blah blah they chant they're referring to the women's ministry another sign reads of 2nd class citizens without rights or on or marching with her husband is 82 year old russell finland is she saying that it's never too late to fight for women's right especially now. earlier we met with members of

it's been a month since the protests began in chile but there is still anger and fear began in chile but there is still angerand fearand began in chile but there is still anger and fear and people are protesting on the streets. here, there is no trust despite change been promised. now there are further reasons for anger. a new report by amnesty international says protesters have been deliberately targeted by police with almost 150 people blinded by rubber bullets and tear gas canisters. diego is one of them. he is now blind in his left eye. the rubber bullet is still embedded. transmack are special forces soldier was aiming straight of my face about eight metres from me. i stared at him and he shot me in the eye. this hospital's i unit is struggling to keep up with a number of cases. transmack the injuries we've seen from the protests show very severe trauma in the eyes and we are seeing that in an extremely high number of cases. police say all the allegations will be investigated. transmack it's not ourjob to presume the facts before an investigation takes place. we are asking for a

flagis chile's national with holes burned through a. jose says it symbolizes the 23 people who lost their lives in the violence. >> it would hurt me to see a new constitution written that doesn't consider the mapuche cause. i would be a set of everything we worked for and in a constitution that does not take into account all of the voices. 2000 people than have been injured in protest since the crisis began four weeks ago. the calls for justice ensures the unrest will continue. >> now to iraq. 27 protesters were hurt. police used tear gas is to disperse people advancing on a government buildings. protesters are still occupying the main bridge. they are also blockading a southern port. more than 300 people have been killed since the anti-government protest began seven weeks ago. riot police have attacked protesters with tear gas. as growing frustration aimed to the government over the lack of fuel and medicine. to hear: they came their leaders speak and say the opposition supporters were met by riot police he made it clear they were not

ethiopian jews who want duke emigrate to israel but we begin in chile where for weeks people have been taking to the streets to demonstrate for social justice as is often the case with such movements students are participating in high numbers we accompanied one of them for a few days. it's another busy day for bill and lot on the. talks meetings roundtables chord and mating mobilizations on the fly all before 3 pm that's when her campus is evacuated for security reasons every day the protests have turned life upside down but let on go doesn't mind for her the revolt was long overdue. one more took them more to call it i think the phone calls for a long time people were afraid to protest because they couldn't foresee how badly they'd be repressed or what they could lose. but among my generation that fear is a lot smaller and we're willing to overcome that fear to achieve our goal profound changes to the system. reform. with a century long tradition of spearheading social uprisings chile student associations are a force to be reckoned with. gathered with national union representatives bi

chile's president says his country is facing a grave crisis as a national strike brought many regions to a standstill sebastien been heroes call them police reservists to help security forces try and manage and to government protests thousands of people have been marching in the capital santiago as the country's currency the peso hit an historic no protests began weeks ago of an increase in metro fares but have grown into anger over social inequality. now accusations of police brutality against demonstrators are being investigated dozens of protesters have complained of being shot in the face by troops using rubber bullets and pellets a latin america editor to send human reports for. heating a pause for a national strike thousands marched all over chile among them was verifying who says he's striking for his 10 year old daughter. i don't know if the president is blind but we've been protesting all of a chile in the sli still doesn't get it he has to fix the country. this national strike has been a good thing to demand social reforms in chile as if people have been doing for the last 2

chile's president sebastian pinera says his country. facing a grave crisis after a national strike brought many regions to a standstill thousands of people have been marching in the capital santiago as the country's currency the peso hit a historic low protests began in mid october or at encrease and metro fares but have since grown to really be about social inequality and there has called on police reservists to help security forces manage violent demonstrations and accusations of police brutality against them is traitors are being investigated dozens of protesters say they've been shot in the face by officers firing rubber bullets and pellets what america reports. keeping a pause for a national strike thousands marched all over chile among them was gratifying who says he's striking for his 10 year old daughter. i don't know if the president is blind but we've been protesting olivia chile in the sli to doesn't he has to fix the country. this national strike has been called to continue to demand social reforms in chile as if people have