List of political scandals in Chile

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A political scandal is a kind of political corruption that is exposed and becomes a scandal, in which politicians or government officials are accused of engaging in various illegal, corrupt, or unethical practices. A political scandal can involve the breaking of the nation's laws or moral codes.

See also

• Category:Political scandals in Chile
• Category:Massacres in Chile
• Category:Riots and civil unrest in Chile
• Category:Military coups in Chile
• List of Chilean coup d'état a more exhaustive list of Chilean coup d'états

This is a list of major political scandals in Chile:

1800s

• "Scorpion" scandal (1809) - A smuggling scandal that caused the fall of the Royal Governor and hastened Chilean Independence

1810s

• Killing of Manuel Rodríguez Erdoíza

1820s

• Chilean Civil War of 1829

1830s

• Quillota mutiny Killing of Diego Portales

1840s

1850s

• Sinking of the ship Cazador, on 30 January 1856, off Punta Carranza near Constitución, Chile. 307 adults died, Children and stowaway were not registered.

1860s

1870s

• Capture of the steamship Rímac on July 23, 1879, during the War of the Pacific. This caused a crisis in the Chilean government which in turn caused the resignation of Admiral Juan Williams Rebolledo commander of the Chilean fleet.

1880s

• Liutenant colonel Ambrosio Letelier is filed of corruption and court martialed in Lima after his expedition to defeat the last forces of Pierola during the Chilean occupation of Peru.

1890s

• Chilean Civil War of 1891

1900s

• Meat riots in Santiago, Chile in October 1905 were the earliest and one of the biggest riots to take place in Chile
• Santa María de Iquique School Massacre ("Matanza de la Escuela Santa María de Iquique") (1907) - The slaughter of hundreds of striking saltpeter workers in Iquique at the hands of the police and military forces

1910s

1920s

• Ladislao's war (1920) - A phony threat of war in order to reduce voters to opposition candidate.
• Saber-rattling ("Ruido de sables") (1924) - The display of discomfort by young military men during a session of the Senate
• Marusia massacre (1925) - 500 miners shot dead by the police forces

1930

• Norte Grande insurrection (December 25, 1931) was a violent and ultimately unsuccessful attempt against the government of Chilean President Juan Esteban Montero
• Socialist Republic of Chile a twelve days socialist experiment in 1932
• Ranquil massacre massacre of forestry workers by the Chilean Army in the upper Bio-Bio River in 1934.
• Seguro Obrero massacre (1938) - 58 people murdered by police in the wake of an attempted Nazi putsch
• Ariostazo a revolt of the Tacna artillery regiment in August 1939

1940s

• Law of Permanent Defense of the Democracy Chile's president Gabriel González Videla banned communist and like-minded parties that supported him during the Chilean presidential election, 1946. Pablo Neruda went into exile.

1950s

• Watches affair (1953) - A corruption scandal that ended the political career of María De la Cruz, the first Chilean woman senator
• Línea Recta affair In Februarz 1955 president Carlos Ibáñez del Campo met a group of armz officers in order to prepare dictatorial powers to the president

1960s

• United States intervention in Chile 1963-1973
• Massacre of Puerto Montt (a.k.a. Massacre of Pampa Irigoin) on 9 March 1965 eleven squatters were shot dead in Puerto Montt
• Tacnazo 1969 putsch attempt

1970s

• Edmundo Pérez Zujovic (1971) - Minister during the massacre of Puerto Montt in 1965 was killed on June 8
• Cuban packages (1972) - A smuggling scandal involving President Salvador Allende
• Alejandrina Cox incident (1973) - A traffic incident that caused the resignation of the Army Commander-in-chief and hastened the Chilean coup of 1973
• Arturo Araya Peeters (1973) - Araya, a Captain of the Chilean Navy is assassinated in Jule by Patria y Libertad
• René Schneider (1973) - General Schneider assassinated during a botched kidnapping attempt in order to block Allende's constitutional election
• 1973 Chilean coup d'état

For a more extensive list of scandals and crimes committed during the Pinochet era, see

Rettig Report

Valech Report

Human Rights Violations of the Chilean dictatorship

• Charles Horman, Frank Teruggi (1973) - US journalists tortured and killed by the military during the Chilean coup of 1973
• Michael Woodward (1973) - UK priest, tortured aboard the Chilean naval vessel Esmeralda (BE-43)
• Caravan of Death (1973) - 70 people executed by the military after the Chilean coup of 1973
• Lonquén On 15 October 1973, 15 men were arrested in the community of Isla de Maipo. Their remains were found on 30 November 1979 in abandoned lime kilns in Lonquén.
• Operation Colombo (1975) - Murder of 119 political opponents of Pinochet by the Chilean DINA
• Leighton case (1973) - Chilean General Manuel Contreras, head of DINA, has been indicted in Italy in 1995 for ordering the Leighton murder.
• Cooperativa de Ahorro y Crédito La Familia crashed and involved Jaime Guzmán, Luis Cordero, Cristián García-Huidobro and Claudio Arteaga, all founders of the Independent Democrat Union^[1]
• Operation Condor (1976-) - A campaign of political repression involving assassination and intelligence operations by the right-wing dictatorships of Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Paraguay, Bolivia and Brazil
• Villa Grimaldi was a complex of buildings used for the interrogation and torture of political prisoners by DINA, the Chilean secret police, during the government of Augusto Pinochet.
• Carlos Prats (1973) - Assassination of Chilean General in the frame of Operation Condor.
• Letelier case (1976) - Chilean politician and former minister murdered in Washington D.C.
• Chilean Amnesty Law of 1978 (1978) - "entrenches impunity of those responsible for torture, disappearances and other serious human rights violations"^[2]

1980s

• Whithout any explanation Philippines's dictator Ferdinand Marcos canceled Augusto Pinochet's visit in Manila few hours before landing.^[3]
• Chilean constitutional referendum, 1980 was held on September 11, 1980 to approve the 1980 Political Constitution of the Republic of Chile as a replacement for Chile's 1925 constitution. This plebiscite has been, and continues to be, questioned regarding irregularities in its management.
• Chilean economical crisis 1982-3 By 1983, the Chilean economy was devastated: of the 19 banks that the government had privatised, all but five failed, GNP feel 14% during 1982-3.^[4]
• Boris Weisfeiler (1985) - An American Jewish professor of Russian origin disappeared near Colonia Dignidad.
• Caso Degollados (1985) - A brutal murder that caused the resignation of the Police Head and profound changes in the political and legal structure of the government
• Burnt Alive case ("Caso Quemados") (1986) - Two youngsters burnt alive during a political protest by a military patrol
• Corpus Christi killings (Matanza de Corpus Christi) (1987) - The assassination of 12 members of the Manuel Rodríguez Patriotic Front in Santiago by the Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional later called Central Nacional de Informaciones
• Carmengate (1988) - Presidential primary election fraud at the Chilean Christian Democrat Party headquarters^[5].
• 1989 Chilean grape scare involving two grapes in Chile that were found to be tainted with Cyanide. None were found upon testing
• La Cutufa a clandestine finance syndicate offered investors, mostly officers of the army, tax-free interest rates of 20% a month. After a dissatified investor was murdered, 4 generals and 16 officers were cashiered and 200 sanctioned.

1990s

• Jonathan Moyle, a UK journalist, was found dead in Santiago de Chile in March, 1990
• Pinocheques A corruption scandal involving the eldest son of Augusto Pinochet.
• Operation Silence (1991) DINE (successor to DINA) assists several military and DINA officers wanted for human rights abuse to escape from Chile (including Eugenio Berrios, Arturo Sanhueza Ross, Carlos Herrera Jiménez)
• Illegal sales of weapons to Croatia: The deal involved 370 tons of weapons, sold to Croatia by Chile on 7 December 1991, when the former country was under a United Nations' embargo because of the support for Croatia war in Yugoslavia.
• Piñeragate (1992) - Political espionage and eavesdropping
• Gerardo Huber (1992) - Assassination of a former DINA officer involved in an illegal arms deal with Croatia
• Eugenio Berríos (1995) - Assassination of a DINA biochemist
• Illegal sales of weapons to Ecuador during the Cenepa war
• Augusto Pinochet's arrest and trial (1998)

2000s

• Inverlink case (2003) - 79 billion pesos swindle against a government organization in charge of promoting economic development
• MOP-Gate case (2003) - Triangulation of public money to finance payolas to government employees
• Spiniak case (2004) - Pedophilia case allegedly involving congressmen and businessmen
• Tragedy of Antuco (2005) - The death of at least 45 soldiers in a military exercise in the mountains that went tragically wrong.
• 2006–2007 Chilean corruption scandals
• Colonia Dignidad - Concentration camp directed by child molester Paul Schäfer
• Empresa de los Ferrocarriles del Estado - Questionable management that led to the near bankruptcy of the State Railway Company

2010s

• 2010 Santiago prison fire killed 81 inmates in Chile's deadliest prison incident
• Karadima case (2010-ongoing) - Pedophilia case involving Catholic priest Fernando Karadima and an alleged protection network which includes Cardinal Francisco Javier Errázuriz and businessman Eliodoro Matte.
• Kodama case (2010-11) - The Ministry of Housing and Urban Planning was ready to pay 17,000,000,000 Chilean Pesos (approximately 24,000,000 Euro in 2011) to a building contractor "Kodama" for works that were valued in maximal 3,000,000,000 Chilean Pesos by Institute for Experimentation and Research of Materials , IDIEM of the University of Chile.

References

1. ^ Article La “cutufa” de los gremialistas
2. ^ http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/asset/AMR22/006/2004/en/0d40731c-d5b4-11dd-bb24-1fb85fe8fa05/amr220062004en.html
3. ^ Helen Spooner, Soldiers in a narrow land: the Pinochet regime in Chile, url
4. ^ [1]
5. ^ Gabriel Valdés: Un aristócrata en la política

See also

• Politics of Chile
• History of Chile