May 17, 2016

Chile requests extradition from U.S. of three former agents suspected of working with dictatorship

Reuters reports Chile's Supreme Court asked the United States on Tuesday to extradite three former agents who worked for Augusto Pinochet's 1973-90 military dictatorship and are suspected of the murder of a United Nations diplomat 40 years ago. In a unanimous verdict, the court asked that the United States hand over Chilean Armando Fernandez Larios, American Michael Townley and Cuban Virgilio Paz. All three are wanted in Chile for the detention, torture, and killing of Spanish-Chilean citizen Carmelo Soria on July 14, 1976.

 

May 17, 2016 2:47:46 PM | Diplomacy / Foreign Assistance, International Law / Law of War / Human Rights, Latin America, Extradition / Fugitives

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