Former-dictator Augusto Pinochet's prison provoked the largest political crisis of Chile since the end of the military regime in 1990.
The in favor of the general, among them the president Eduardo Frei, they allege that the prison is an act against the national dignity, while his opponents defend he judged at another country since in Chile the military are protected by Aamnesty Law.
The general was arrested on October 16 in London, in the clinic in that he recovered of a surgery of lumbar hernia, assisting to the Spanish Judge's Baltazar Gazon request the general is extradited to Spain to be judged by the death, tortures and disappearance of Spaniards in Chile and in Argentina.
The accusations of Garzon have as focus the Operação Condor, an agreement among the military governments of the South Cone for subversive considered people's capture in any part of the area between 1976 and 1977.
Gazon accuses the former-dictator of being responsible for the Spanish disappearance of 91 during the operation and for the death of 79 detained Spaniards in Argentina among 1976 and 1983 and correspondents to Chile.
The repression during the dictatorship Pinochet left a balance of more than disappeared 3 thousand and thousands of exiles.
The president Eduardo Frei and the right-wing parties of Chile came out in defense of the general alleging that, as senator vitálicio, Pinochet is entitled to the diplomatic immunity.
For the British Government, the Pinochet was not believed as diplomat before entering in the country and therefore hee doesn't enjoy immunity.
The request was welcomed by the Ministry of the Justice of Spain so it is guided to the Council of Ministers.
The Spanish Government has one period of 40 days starting from the prison of Pinochet to send the extradition request to England
The final decision will fit to the minister of the British Interior Jack Straw.
The peace in Chile depends the House of Lordes confirms the The Royal Justice and order Pinochet back home.
The Chilean political fire should be turned off with this acting, although many *intellectuals* want to season their writings with Chilean innocent blood.
Are you one of them?
emilio