Students from the Universidad Diego Portales plan to stage a protest Tuesday demanding the resignation of Francisco Javier Cuadra, their university’s president. Cuadra, the civilian spokesman for former dictator Augusto Pinochet, launched himself into the press two weeks ago after publicly recounting his role in the aftermath of the 1986 assassination attempt on Pinochet.
After the attack, four left-wing activists were seized from their homes and summarily executed in the streets. In the recent interview, Cuadra claimed that when the bodies started turning up in the streets, “That was when we realized that these were revenge killings.”
Newspapers immediately seized on the claim to point out inconsistencies between his 1986 statement, claiming that the killings were committed by the Movement of the Revolutionary Left (MIR), a militant communist group in Chile, and his most recent comments admitting that he knew that the men were murdered by regime officials.
The march is scheduled to take place in front of the Universidad Diego Portales, between Gorbea St. and Vergara at 12:15 p.m. Tuesday.
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