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LatinNews Regional Monitor: Brazil & Southern Cone - 20 January 2017

Spectre of Pinochet takes centre stage in Chilean campaign

Chile’s President Michelle Bachelet accepted the resignation this week of the former commander-in-chief of the army (2002-2006), retired General Juan Emilio Cheyre, from the electoral board (Servel). Cheyre had presented his resignation last August after charges were levelled at him for being an accomplice to the murder of 15 political opponents of General Augusto Pinochet at the start of the military dictatorship in October 1973.

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