http://www.gn.apc.org/www.labournet.org/1998/dec/chile3.html
>RE: Pinochet and 1973.
>
>Currently British American Tobacco
>(BAT) has a practical monopoly of
>cigarette manufacture in Chile. In
>1973 in their plant
>in Valparaiso two weeks
>after the coup, the
>plant was surrounded by
>the army and an
>entire shift was taken off to a
>concentration camp.
>
>Many of these
>workers are still alive, but
>never received
>restitution from BAT. British
>imperialism
>benefited from the 1973 coup...it
>was not just the
>"bad guy" Pinochet. He was
>just their tool.
>
>Earl Gilman
>El Nuevo Topo magazine
>"It is understood that among those helping to pay the general's
>substantial bills is Carlos Carceres, president of the Chilean
>subsidiary of British American Tobacco (BAT), the international
>tobacco corporation. Mr Cerceres is also on the board of
>directors of the Pinochet Foundation, a pro-Pinochet vehicle to
>dispense scholarships to the children of military men. The
>foundation is now leading the fight to defend the former dictator
>instead.
>
>"Last night, Michael Perdeaux, director of consumer affairs for
>BAT said: "The funding being given to General Pinochet's case is
>being given by a Chilean subsidiary of BAT. The donations are
>being administered in a purely personal capacity that have little to
>do with the company."
>
>The Guardian Sat. 5 Dec 1998
Chris Burford
London.