SIGNIFICANT DEVELOPMENTS RELATED TO THE US STAND ON HUMAN RIGHTS (18 NOVEMBER - 1 DECEMBER 1977) - 1977/11/18

• Document Type: SPECIALCOLLECTION
• Collection: Argentina Declassification Project - The "Dirty War" (1976-83)
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 06628048
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 13
• Document Creation Date: April 3, 2019
• Document Release Date: April 12, 2019
• Publication Date: November 18, 1977

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
NATIONAL FOREIGN ASSESSMENT CENTER
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SIGNIFICANT DEVELOPMENTS RELATED TO THE US STAND ON HUMAN RIGHTS
(18 November - 1 December 1977)
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Political Analysis. Inquiries may be directed to
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LATIN AMERICA
The military government in Chile appears to be increasingly
upset over continuing international censure for alleged human
rights abuses. Chilean officials are particularly distressed
over the prospect of the US joining Cuba in co-sponsorship of
a condemnatory UN resolution. Resurgence of the belief that
US and world opinion will refuse to recognize and respond
positively to any alleviatory measures taken by the present
government short of its own self-Liquidation may have con-
tributed to two recent regressive moves. These involved the
internal exile of seven union Leaders and the denial of reentry
to three Chilean women who had sought foreign assistance in
locating missing relatives. A more definitive indicator of
the mood in Santiago will be whether or not the government
goes ahead with a decision reportedly made earlier this year
to lift the state of siege on December 11.
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Shortly after the departure of Secretary of State Vance,
the Argentine Foreign Ministry Press Secretary called in the
USIS press officer to accuse correspondents Karen DeYoung of
The Washington Post and Juan de Onis of The New York Times
of attempting to disrupt US-Argentine relations. The Argentine
official said that there was "concrete evidence" of links between
Onis and leftist guerrillas. A Voice of America reporter and a
BBC correspondent were detained for seven hours on November 24
after interviewing human rights demonstrators. They were not
mistreated and were soon released.
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