P.O.V. | The Judge and the General | PBS

By Elizabeth Farnsworth and Patricio Lanfranco
http://www.pbs.org/pov/pov2008/judgeandthegeneral When in 1998 Chilean judge Juan Guzman was assigned the first criminal cases against the country's ex-dictator, General Augusto Pinochet, no one expected much. Guzman had supported Pinochet's 1973 coup — waged as an anti-Communist crusade — that left the democratically elected president, Salvador Allende, and thousands of others dead or "disappeared." The filmmakers trace the judge's descent into what he calls "the abyss," where he uncovers the past — including his own role in the tragedy. "The Judge and the General" reveals one of the 20th century's most notorious episodes and tells a cautionary tale about violating human rights in the name of "higher ideals." A co-production of Independent Television Service (ITVS) in association with Latino Public Broadcasting.

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Broadcast Date: August 19, 2008




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[StephanAOTTO1]

We Americans played a mjor role in brining this horror against the Chilean people & their democratically elected government-all in the name of corporate greed, masked as anti-Communism.

[Smalley123]

this happened at a time when the CIA was lanching secrect wars around the world, it wasnt corporate greed it was a organization that had to much power and was nearly never questioned by either the president or public.

[LeftsideLatitude]

@RobGoth100

richest? are you kidding me? they exploited the Cubans and all the money went to the US

[buenapalmate]

Creo que este es un exelente video. Tuve el honor de estar en el estreno en Berkeley, California. En la sala se vivio un tremendo dolor para nosotros los chilenos, ya que nos sentimos avergonzados por tal atropello a los derechos humanos.

[RobGoth100]

Allende was a Stalinist who invited in Cubans and Soviets and made threats to take over the nation. Pinochet was in power for 17 years and left the nation better than he found it. Castro never left and is in power for 50 years and took Cuban from a rich nation to the poorest in Latin America. Stop buying all the hype and learn the facts.

[18bites]

if the cia operated outside so-called national/economic interests and directives, it wouldn't be operating.

[Prohunter93]

im getting so sad when watching films like this :(

[StephanAOTTO1]

Corporate greed was definitely involved.

Check out the part of the documentary, "The Trial Of Henry Kissinger", that deals with the coup, and, which corporate interests help spawn it.

[Taospark]

It's close enough to be unsettling.

[jbryant13]

This was Nixon, Kissinger and the CIA's doing - not "we Americans"

watch?v=Cofq4xIdYh8

[StephanAOTTO1]

mAjor, brinGing.

LOL