Minister criticised
Members of the Chilean Working People’s Solidarity' Committee have criticised the Deputy Minister of Finance (Mr Templeton), for calling on the Federation of Labour to lift the trade boycott against the Chilean junta. In a letter to the Minister, a committee spokesman (Mr IT. A. Jackson), said the call "could not have come at a worse time.” It came soon after the announcement of the new' constitution in Chile which “would maintain the present undemocratic regime of General Pinochet for the foreseeable future,” and the
recent forcing of more than 60 Chilean into internal exile
“This is to say nothing of the continued refusal of the Chilean Government to investigate the disappearance of 2500 political prisoners,” Mr Jackson said.
On Friday evening Chilean refugees in Christchurch launched an appeal for aid for political prisoners in Chile. Help was being sought for people who had been banished without trial to remote parts of the country.About 150 people attended the evening and gave more than $250 to the appeal.
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