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By scrapping Net Zero projects and cutting costs, Reform UK says its Musk-inspired "DOGE" unit has clawed back ?110 million in council savings just 100 days after its landslide victory in May's local elections.
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Patricia Verdugo 1948-2008

category international | gender and sexuality | other press author Friday February 29, 2008 13:21author by Obit Report this post to the editors

Woman who exposed Pinochet's Brutality

" We should preserve in adults the confident and Joyful attitude of children"

Patricia Verdugo has died. She helped form in Chile 'The Women's Movement for Life' ( 1983), which comprised
women politicians, activists and writers;a cauccas of women opposed to the Pinochet regime. The WML
organised protests against Pinochet .

She was a journalist , an activist and an academic, who in the immeadiate aftermath of her father's assasination
began her career to expose the Pinochet Regime.

She founded 'Hoy' , established 1977. The Publication operated throughout the dictatorship and retained an
independent critical position against the dictatorial regime.
Her books included; 'Bucharest 187' and 'The Claws of the Puma' (1989)
Patricia Verdugo RIP
Patricia Verdugo RIP

The books formed the basis for the legal cases instituted against the Pinochet regime.

'The Claws of the Puma' detailed 75 extra-judicial murders in the period just after the coup, when 'The Caravan
of Death'- a Puma helicopter travelled picking up dissidents and murdering them.

She never gave up despite the great personal cost, which disallowed her time to grieve the murder
of her father and copper-fastened her desire to expose the brutality of the regime which she found herself
living in.

'Bucharest 187'- was written in the immediate aftermath of the extra-judicial murder of her father, whose body was
found in the Mapacho river, which crosses Santiago. She discussed her inability to cope with the post-traumatic
disorder that resulted from the disappearance of her dad and decided consciously to create a movement
against human rights violation from her trauma and in solidarity with women who had suffered the same traumas.

She was nominated for the Nobel peace Prize in 2005

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   The Claws of the Puma.     Obit II    Fri Feb 29, 2008 19:15 
   Words from a Holocaust Survivor- 1947     Comment    Sun Mar 02, 2008 15:21 
   Commemoration in 2008     Obit    Sat Mar 29, 2008 20:39 


 
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