APRIL, 2010
After a devastating earthquake rocked Chile in March 2010, Abi Wright, director of the duPont Columbia Awards, interviewed Patricio Lanfranco, co-producer/director of The Judge and the General, about his personal experience during the disaster and the destruction it left behind. He also gives an update on Juan Guzmán.
APRIL, 2010
West Wind Productions asked Dr. Cath Collins to comment on the recent election of Chilean President Sebastian Piñera and its possible effect on the fate of judicial prosecutions for past human rights violations. Collins edits a monthly bulletin on human rights trial developments in Chile and the region and is director of the Human Rights Observatory of the School of Political Science at the University of Diego Portales in Santiago.
OCTOBER, 2009
Judge Juan Guzmán is Director of the Institute for Human Rights, which he founded at the Central University of Chile, and he also represents Mapuche and other clients in criminal cases which raise important social issues. In August 2009 he announced his candidacy for the Senate from the district which includes Valparaíso and Viña del Mar. He said he decided to become a candidate to help publicize the need to replace the current Constitution of Chile, which was written and passed by Congress during the rule of former dictator Augusto Pinochet. The elections will be held on December 13.
SEPTEMBER 1, 2009
Judge Victor Montiglio, who replaced Judge Guzmán in the Court of Appeals when he retired, ordered the arrest and indictment of more than 120 former intelligence agents from the Pinochet dictatorship under charges of crimes against humanity in cases including Cecilia Castro’s.
The killers of Manuel Donoso have been tried, convicted and are in prison.