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CHRONOLOGY - 1996
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JULY 5, 1996
The Audiencia Nacional, Spain's highest court, accepts a suit filed by Union of Progressive Attorneys (Union Progresista de Fiscales) for the disappearance and death of Spanish citizens during the military regime. The legal action charges Augusto Pinochet, and former Junta members Jose Toribio Merino, Gustavo Leigh, Cesar Mendoza, Fernando Matthei, and Rodolfo Stange. The Chilean government rejects the
jurisdictional competency of the Spanish court and of Judge Manuel Garcia Castellon to hear the case.
OCTOBER 5, 1996
Gladys Marin, secretary general of the Communist Party, is jailed two days in Santiago, on charges of "defamation" to Army commander-in-chief Augusto Pinochet. A speech by Marin at the Monument to the Disappeared and Executed in the General Cemetery, in which
she labeled Pinochet "a psychopath who reached power by means of intrigue, treason and crime," gives rise to the suit.
DECEMBER 31, 1996
Four Manuel Rodriguez Patriotic Front members make a dramatic escape from Maximum Security Prison (CAS) in a helicopter lift.
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