PINOCHET ON HIS DECISION TO EXPEL RENAN FUENTEALBA

Created: 12/4/1974

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GOVERNMENT'S SUMMARY EXPULSION pROH CHILE ONJVEM8ER OF Rc.NaN PUENTClLli' PROMINENT LEPTMINO LEADER 0' THE CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC PARTY (PDC). FOLLOWING THESSUANCE OP STATEMENTS CRITICAL OP THE GOVERNMENT IN AN INTERVIEW rilTH AGENCE PRANCE PRESSE

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3. QSf^BNCvExSE". junta president august0 fBaflBBBHI to expel

TuENTEALBA because IT hasvidence gathered by ThE

government that the latter's interview has deliberately designed

to provoke the government, SftVLVB* fflHl SRESSb november published correspondence between THE app correspondent in santiago and Hi $office in par is in MM ich Hfi stated that puentealba* "mho is AN old fox," must have been AMare op the eppect the publication op his interv1em mould produce. THE app correspondent speculated that puentealba mas in pact lookingonfrontation mi th the government, but that he never expectedapid reaction or such severe punishment.)

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to MAKE an example of fuentealba in order to prove to the .various political organizations thatpolitical recess cannot be circumvented. he said that since ThE arrest of politicians only created long rangeelations problems porgovernment, direct expulsion for engaging in political activity has the more practical solution. pinochet said that similar acts by politicians in .the future -ill be met Ml th the _opMMEnT .

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to expel ruENTEALB' here POLLQkEO to ITS LOGICAL CONCLUSION, the oovfirnhent woulo have to either jail or expel horehird

op the POPULATION,

to arrest all the PDC LEADERS uhO -e*N the declaration CHITICIIING the government's action against puentealba,

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STftONGLV CRITUED the DECISION TO

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PINOCHET "ANTED TO EXPEL ALL pdc LEADERS UHfl siqneo THE JiLARATlQN BACK INS FUENTEALiAl HOWEVER. M{ HASB?

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