Thirty-three years after his assassination, the figure of former army commander Gen. Carlos Prats Gonzalez, as an example of military strength and citizen. Took command of the institution since late October 1970 until a few days before the coup. Without sharing the socialist ideology of President Salvador Allende, kept the military professionalism and loyalty to the constitutional authorities, facing the conspiracy of the United States, the right and leading sectors of the Christian Democrats. The closeness to President Allende, as Minister of Interior and Defense and Vice President, let him value it, he wrote later, as "one of our most brilliant and daring leaders of the twentieth century and at the same time, the most misunderstood." Gradually, the enemies of General Prats gained ground and finally managed to isolate him, forcing him to resign on August 23, 1973. He handed power to his trusted man, General Augusto Pinochet Ugarte.
The assassination of Prats in Buenos Aires, which also killed his wife, Sofia Cuthbert, were organized and planned by members of the Dina, mostly military, under the command of then Colonel Manuel Contreras reported directly to Pinochet . The investigation of justice Argentina failed to reach the military Chileans, whose extradition was denied by the Supreme Court, and concluded with the life sentence of a DINA agent Enrique Arancibia Clavel, as "necessary participant" in the crime. So since that trial in Chile, more than five years. But the army has not brought to justice any of the two countries key research background, which no doubt drive, making those processes continue to dilate. However, the September 30 military honored the memory of General Prats in a special ceremony with assistance from the commander in chief, senior officers and officials, repairing, according to military protocol, an unjustifiable wrong maintained since his assassination plotted by fellow armas.Por authority, rank and character, General Carlos Prats was a prominent constitutional officer who tried to keep all costs of military subordination to legitimate authority. It played down to avoid the coup and the bloodbath that marked the overthrow of President Salvador Allende. He had clear ideas of progress and social advancement. Supported the nationalization of copper and the involvement of the military in strengthening the sovereignty and the development of the country's economy, from the abstract vision of independence and self-determination to another directly linked to the management of essential resources -Natural, industrial, and financial-that allow it effective against hegemonic powers, large corporations and domestic power centers. He was also one of his concerns the elevation of professional standards of the armed forces within a conception of national defense fully shared with President Allende. Shortly before his death, Prats wrote in exile: "It would be a cruel irony of fate that when calmly write pages of the history of Chile in the last forty years, we clarify that the government in that period had a more clear national security and evidence to show the greatest interest in the problems national defense was precisely the Allende government was overthrown by the armed forces and police. " Prats is the figure of Pinochet antagonistic. Represents loyalty, therefore, honesty, courage and military honor, run over by his successor who made the treachery and dissimulation a standard of conduct. However, Pinochet was able to interpret what was happening in the main commanders of the armed forces and especially in the military. Most of the generals and middle were won to the anti-communism, unpopular positions and subordination to the United States, aided by a deep hatred of class and elitist aspirations. Pinochet embodied that spirit and did not hesitate liquidate all those who opposed his plans. Unleashed a relentless repression to impose a model fitted to the interests of imperialism, transnational corporations and the big bourgeoisie. The anniversary of the death of Gen. Carlos Prats situation occurs in a doubly significant. Pinochet makes efforts to escape justice alleged involvement in Operation Condor as he tries to explain the origins of fortune detected in the secret operations of Riggs Bank, which demonstrate the corrupt management and personal and family benefit was Pinochet's power . Meanwhile, the army commander Gen. Juan Emilio Cheyre, still looking for a way out of the military accused or charged crimes against humanity by way of blaming civilians-care and right to criticize the US-such as the route to exonerate, and ensure the impunity of military-to dishonor the uniform violating the laws of war and all national and international standards. Cheyre conceals the pressure with their statements and claims as an argument the delays in processing processes. Calla to 17 years were the armed forces which imposed silence on the crimes committed by his agents, who benefited from an amnesty, and that in the 14 years of transition have consistently failed to provide crucial background in the various processes serve General Carlos Prats González died convinced of the need for an army committed to democracy and social progress, efficient and respectful of people. His ideas remain, beyond rhetorical recognition. For years, the army faces a road that is able to go tied to Pinochet, in situations of constitutional privilege, legal and material, with a growing rapprochement with the U.S. global strategy. But there are indications that the army intends to make fundamental reforms required, which should begin to assume responsibilities in the abuses of the dictatorship and put away the officers and ratings that stained the uniform to murder and torture, extreme cruelty, other Chileans to impose a model that leads to social disaster that oculta.Ni the army or other branches of the armed forces seem to have an incentive to cease being a threat to democracy and progress. Strive to remain the reserve army of the most reactionary circles of a company tied to capitalist globalization, increasingly dependent on imperial superpower.
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