Prisoner Pinochet. (cover story)

SPAIN; UNITED Kingdom; CHILE

This article focuses on the prosecution of the former dictator of Chile, Augusto Pinochet. It was just before midnight when two detectives from Scotland Yard's organized crime division slipped into the quiet halls of the upscale London Clinic. The British agents quickly secured the private room in which the former dictator of Chile, General Pinochet, was recovering from back surgery. The British government, facing legal obligations to extradite Pinochet to Spain, may yet allow him to return to Chile. The prosecution of Pinochet, whose name became a virtual synonym for state-sponsored terror during his seventeen-year regime, has become a historic turning point for international and national efforts to hold him and other tyrants accountable.