SIGNIFICANT DEVELOPMENTS RELATED TO THE US STAND ON HUMAN RIGHTS (17-23 JUNE 1977) - 1977/06/17

• Document Type: SPECIALCOLLECTION
• Collection: Argentina Declassification Project - The "Dirty War" (1976-83)
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 06627954
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 6
• Document Creation Date: April 3, 2019
• Document Release Date: April 12, 2019
• Publication Date: June 17, 1977

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
DIRECTORATE OF INTELLIGENCE
SIGNIFICANT DEVELOPNENTS RELVIED TO THE US STAND ON HUMAN RIGHTS
(17-23 June 1977)
This comTition is pr-oared weekly by 7",:e Office of Regional and
Political ..1Kasis. Iuiries may be cite,f1 to of
the Into2,?::-onal issues Division,
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LATIN AMERICA
Human rights matters dominated nearly every phase of the OAS
General Assembly in Grenada. Venezuela, Jamaica, the
Dominican Republic, Panama, and Costa Rica helped the US
secure passage of a strong human rights resolution. Other
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countries voting in favor included ;!-exico, Peru, Ecuador,
Haiti, Trinidad, Barbados, and Surinar:. Argentina's effort to
gain formal acceptance for the proposition that human rights
must be considered in the context of a government's obligation
to combat terrorism and maintain public order was defeated.
Brazil, Chile, Uruguay, Guatamela, and El Salvador supported
the Argentine resolution. The debates on human rights were
emotional and Positions seemed to harden as the Assembly
progressed. Human rights has quickly become a prominent--and
potentially divisive--issue in hemispheric relations.
Chile released Communist folmer senator Jorge Montes on 18 '
June. He was handed over to East Gelman officials in-exchange
for eleven GDR political prisoners. Following the exchange of
ChiZean Communist Party chief Louis CorvaZan for Soviet
dissident Vladimir Bukovsky last December, the Chilean govern-
ment offered to let Montes go if Cuba would release Huber
Matos in return. The Castro regime never responded to
this proposal.- Montes was the only prominent figure from
the Allende years still held by Santiago. He-was also the
last detainee either acknowledged or known to. be held by Chile
without charge under state of siege provisions.
Chile's Carabineros--the
national police force--have been ordered to stop disregarding
extra-legal conduct by DINA, the country's principal internal
security service. The Carabineros were also told to adopt a
tougher attitude toward almy interference in .police affairs.
The orders were approved by Carabinero commander
General Cesar Mendoza, a member of the ruling junta. The
Carabineros have never been pleased with some of DR/A's more
notorious methods.
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