Documents: Chile's Pinochet Covered Up Report on Death of US Student

Former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet stifled a police report that accused military officers of burning and killing a U.S. student in 1986, according to declassified U.S. government documents published by a research group on Friday. The documents, revealed by the Washington-based National Security Archive, could shed light on the incident, which became a symbol of government brutality during Pinochet's 1973-1990 dictatorship. The nearly 30-year-old case has come back into the...

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