TRACING CHARLES HORMAN'S KILLER

Peter Kornbluh writes: More than thirty years after the military putsch in Chile, there has finally been an arrest for one of the Pinochet regime's most infamous crimes: the murder of North American journalist Charles Horman. On December 10 Chilean judge Jorge Zepeda Arancibia indicted and detained former intelligence agent Rafael Gonzalez as an "accomplice to the crime of homicide." Gonzalez, as readers who saw the Oscar-winning Hollywood film Missing may remember, is the same official who told reporters from CBS and the Washington Post in 1976 that Horman had been killed because "he knew too much," presumably regarding the US role in Chile. Now, justice in the case hinges on how much Gonzalez knows, and is willing to reveal, about those who gave and carried out the orders to execute Horman in the days following the US-backed coup.

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