SIGNIFICANT DEVELOPMENTS RELATED TO THE US STAND ON HUMAN RIGHTS (11-17 NOVEMBER 1977 - 1977/11/11

• Document Type: SPECIALCOLLECTION
• Collection: Argentina Declassification Project - The "Dirty War" (1976-83)
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 06627984
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 8
• Document Creation Date: April 3, 2019
• Document Release Date: April 12, 2019
• Publication Date: November 11, 1977

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
NATIONAL FOREIGN ASSESSMENT CENTER
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SIGNIFICANT DEVELOPMENTS RELATED TO THE US STAND ON HUMAN RIGHTS
(11 - 17 November 1977)
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LATIN AMERICA
International Red Cross officials in Chile say that the
overall human rights picture there continues to improve. The
Red Cross thinks that there still are problems, but it has
been unable to document any recent allegations of torture. It
believes, however, that about twenty cases have occurred this
year, some after the abolition of DINA in mid-August.
There has been strong public reaction to the terrorist as-
sassination of a wealthy businessman in EZ Salvador. President
Romero continues to be under intense pressure to take preventative
action against further terrorist acts. So fdr, however, the
government's response has been restrained.
Argentine Interior Minister Harguindeguy called in the Associated
Press Buenos Aires bureau chief this week, apparently to warn
him to be careful in the pursuit of human rights stories. The
former editor of La Opinion, Jacobo Timmerman, meanwhile, was
placed under the Institutional Responsibility Act. This means
that he loses all civil rights and can be held in jail indefinitely.
For the second consecutive week the government confiscated an
issue of the weekly newspaper Correo de la Semana.
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