Letter From Chile.

Discusses Chile under President Ricardo Lagos and the decision of Judge Juan Guzman to prosecute Gen. Augusto Pinochet. Public reaction to the indictment of Pinochet and his regime's Operation Condor, a consortium of secret police agencies which led state-sponsored terrorism in the 1970s; Efforts to redress human rights crimes; Background on the National Commission on Political Imprisonment and Torture, or Valech Commission, and its report on documented cases; The debate over public and military accountability for repression during the Pinochet era; How Commander in Chief Gen. Juan Emilio Cheyre pre-empted the Valech Commission report; Criticism of the Supreme Court; Outlook for prosecution of the Condor perpetrators by Chile's tribunals and the imprisonment of former DINA director Manuel Contreras.