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Press backer of Pinochet
target of Chilean protest

A leading apologist for the regime of
Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet was the
target of a protest staged by local Chileans
outside a conference of South and North
American journalists in Vancouver, Sept.
18.

Augustin Edwards, editor of the Santiago-
based El Mercurio and owner of a chain of
Chilean newspapers, is a fascist of
Pinochet’s ilk and was one of the strongest
supporters of the overthrow of the demo-
cratically elected Popular Unity govern-
ment, the demonstrators charged.

“We want to draw to the attention of the
conference participants that liberty of the
press does not exist in Chile,” said Ruben
Contrera of the Popular Democratic
Movement.

Edwards was attending the week-long
conference of mainly editors and publishers
of major Western newspapers belonging to
the Inter-American Press Assocation
(IAPA).

The demonstators handed copies of a
leaflet to delegates entering and leaving the
Four Seasons Hotel naming opposition pol-
itical leaders and religious leaders arrested by
Chile’s military junta during the past two
weeks. The leaflet also listed Jose Carrasco
Tapia and Fernando Vida Orrazaga, two

Chilean journalists murdered by death
squads linked to the government.

But these actions, carried out in the wake
of an alleged assassination attempt on
Pinochet — who in 1973 staged a bloody
coup in which Chilean president Salvador
Allende and thousands of supporters were
murdered — are not reported by El Mercu-
rio, the leaflet charged.

The paper, considered the mouthpiece of
the most right-wing and artistocratic ele-
ments in the South American nation, con-
sistently opposed Allende’s government
and advocated its overthrow. El Mercurio
now routinely features articles promoting
the junta, and is among the few journals still
publishing in the latest round of press cen-
sorship.

According to conference participants,
Edwards, who personally defends Pinochet’s
regime, has found little support for his views
from delegates who presented an award to
the publisher of Que Passa, an opposition
magazine. But the conference, hosted by
The Vancouver Sun, and sponsored in part
by MacMillan Bloedell, reportedly has also
backed La Prensa, the right-wing paper
closed by Nicaragua’s popular Sandinista
government for defending the U.S. Reagan
administration’s intervention in Central
America.

‘End free trade talks’ —IWA

Continued from page 1
table. This is happening at the GATT talks
as well, where the fate of many industires is
being decided on a high-level, and secret
basis. _

CLC leaders were careful to point out,
however, that the campaign being launched
was not a battle of Canadian workers
against American workers, nor of Cana-
dian trade unions against American trade
unions. It is, they said, a campaign against

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the government which is aiming to sell out
the interests of Canadians to the U.S.

The CLC is not opposed to bilateral
negotiations, or sectoral negotiations, they
said, but Canada should engage in trade
with all countries and not only with the U.S.

Asked by the Tribune whether the cam-
paign will be limited to education on these
issues, or whether actions will be taken,
Carr responded that “the CLC will do every-
thing it can to mobilize all sectors of the
population in workshops, rallies and dem-
onstrations against the Mulroney govern-

_ ment’s policies.”

In this province, the Pacific region of th
CLC has scheduled a major conference on
free trade. It will be held at the Villa Motor
Hotel in Burnaby Nov. 3.

B.C. Federation of Labor president Art
Kube also appeared last week before a fed-
eral Liberal committee on employment
where he reiterated the federation’s opposi-
tion to free trade, warning that two key
industries in B.C., agriculture and wineries,
would be devastated by a free trade agree-
ment.

Yet to be developed is any campaign of
labor action against free trade although
delegates to the International Wood-
workers convention in Nanaimo last week
urged the IWA leadership to “join with
others in a coalition to carry out a campaign
to educate Canadians on the dangers of
bilateral free trade.”

The motion was part of a resolution
adopted by the convention which called on
the federal government to withdraw imme-
diately from bilateral free trade talks with
the U.S. and urged that the government
instead pursue multilateral trade agree-
ments.

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