We know that Senator Pinochet's guilt was publicly prejudged by a Labour Cabinet Minister. And his accusers do not, it seems, have to present here any evidence of guilt. Senator Pinochet is, of course, being victimised because the organised international Left are bent on revenge. One day, near the end of the conflict, the Chilean long-range radar had to be switched off for overdue maintenance. The value of this intelligence was proved by what happened when it stopped. My friends, these are vital matters for our Party to ponder. We know that he was held first in a tiny room at a clinic under sedation, and then in a house where he wasn't even allowed to set foot in the garden. _____ 1999 Oct 6 We, Margaret Thatcher. What about the fact that more people were housed, that medical care was improved, that infant mortality plummeted, that life expectancy rose, that highly effective programmes against poverty were launched? The speech was one of Lady Thatcher's first at a Tory conference since she was dumped as party leader in 1990 and marked the culmination of an electrifying return. She visited Pinochet in 1999 during his house arrest in England, saying that her country "owed" him "a great debt" of gratitude for his help during the 1982 Falklands War. Human rights violations Speech on Pinochet at the Conservative Party Conference. Only fleetingly was this acknowledged, in public at least, by the Britons who lobbied against Pinochet’s captivity between 1998 and 2000. My Lords, my noble friend Lord Lamont has done the House a service by initiating this short debate on a matter of great importance to Britain’s reputation, to Chile’s stability and to the orderly conduct of international relations. All those responsible must be shamed, and held publicly to account. Pinochet himself escaped justice and ‘suffered’ a mere 16 months’ house arrest in a London mansion, whilst receiving moral support from his friend Margaret Thatcher, before returning to Chile where he lived out his remaining years in comfort and died without being convicted of any crimes. But don't take my word for it. Below is the text of the statement made in the House of Lords by Baroness Margaret Thatcher on 6 July 1999. The speech was Thatcher’s first at a Conservative conference since she was dumped as party leader in 1990, and marked the culmination of an electrifying return. Today I break my self-denying ordinance. Defence (Falklands War, 1982), Foreign policy (general discussions), Foreign policy (Americas excluding USA). But the extradition court ruled that the poor health of Pinochet, a friend of former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, would prevent him from being sent to Spain. We know that for the first time in its history the House of Lords had to set aside its ruling, because a Law Lord failed to declare an interest - and that the judge in question was then publicly exonerated by Labour's Lord Chancellor. How a former president became a prisoner in his favourite country. But we know a good deal about the catalogue of abuses which occurred. We know that Senator Pinochet was treated on his arrival, as on previous occasions, as an honoured guest. He must be turning in his grave, to see Britain now encouraging Spain's arrogant interference in Chilean affairs! Under the Extradition Treaty, the case can only be heard in Spain. Make no mistake: revenge by the Left, not justice for the victim, is what the Pinochet case is all about. And this, of course, was the situation when a trusting, elderly, former Chilean ruler chose to pay one too many visits to his beloved Britain last autumn. This is a government which grants amnesties to unrepentant terrorist murderers - yet overturns an amnesty in Chile, and imperils that country's young democracy. But, of course, we know why none of these achievements is talked about. Pinochet subsequently visited the UK on more than one occasion. 3 of 6 4 of 6 Opponents of former Gen. Augusto Pinochet celebrate after hearing the news of Pinochet's death in Santiago, Chile, Sunday, Dec. 10, 2006. was in any case made on the basis of an unlawful warrant. Britain's reputation should be of vital importance to the government of the day. We know that the authorities knew it was unlawful, because they hurriedly sent lawyers to Spain to draw up a new one. I recall that Margaret Thatcher once called Pinochet a 'good friend'. All Rights Reserved. I do not know when or how this tragedy will end. That same day - Tuesday 8th June, a date etched on my heart - Argentinian planes attacked and destroyed the Sir Galahad and Sir Tristram landing ships, with heavy casualties. This trust has now been shattered by the prospect of the courts in one country seeking the extradition of former heads of government from a second country for offences allegedly committed in a third country. Above all, why don't they tell the world that it was Senator Pinochet who established a constitution for the return to democracy? First, it had seen the total defeat of communism at a time when that ideology was advancing throughout the hemisphere. The Left lost the Cold War in Chile, as they lost it everywhere else. Not in Thatcher’s speeches and letters to newspapers, which were hoarse with outrage but also careful to mention Pinochet’s assistance to Britain only in connection the Falklands. Thatcher was elected leader of the Conservative Party in February 1975. When the communists so nearly assassinated him in 1986, President Pinochet knew that he was being fired on by his enemies. House of Lords Hansard, 6 July 1999, cc.799-801. I do not know when or how this tragedy will end. On that basis, Messrs. Blair and Straw should accept criminal responsibility for everything done in every prison or police station throughout the United Kingdom - and then be extradited to Spain to answer for it. As has been confirmed at the recent hearing, Senator Pinochet is still legally prevented from answering in a British court any of the charges against him. President Pinochet was this country's staunch, true friend in our time of need when Argentina seized the Falkland Islands. My final point concerns the implications of the Pinochet case for the conduct of international relations, which are essentially based on trust between nation states. The Thatcher speech was denounced by anti-Pinochet Chilean groups, who staged a protest outside the Blackpool movie theater where the "Free Pinochet" rally was staged. European History: Dec 29, 2014: Thatcher's diplomacy towards Augusto Pinochet, Pol Pot, appartheid and others: General History: Apr 9, 2013: Thatcher's cunning plans: Controversial History: Jan 3, 2013 Lady Thatcher, a friend of the former Chilean dictator, renewed her fierce criticism of his arrest in a speech to a fringe meeting at the Tory conference. “I don’t know when or how this tragedy will end,” Thatcher said in 1999, “but we will fight on for as long as it takes to see Senator Pinochet returned safely to his own country. I cannot reveal all the details. It's because the Left don't want them to be talked about - or even (if they can help it) known about. But first I want to extend a personal welcome to our Chilean guests, who have come half way round the world to be with us. posted by Twang at 2:04 AM on October 26, 2020 [5 favorites] ... Free speech isn't a human right? But at least he will know, and the world will know, that his friends did not abandon his cause, and that those whom the Left would like to silence - but dare not - have proclaimed the truth about his treatment. Though I shall not go into the details, I can say that without President Pinochet's considerable practical help in 1982, many more of our servicemen would have lost their lives in the South Atlantic. But first I want to extend a personal welcome to our Chilean guests, who have come half way round the world to be with us. That, Ladies and Gentlemen, is what Pinochet stopped. Chile is our oldest friend in South America. And some of these continued. Pinochet's controversial relationship with Thatcher led Labour Prime Minister Tony Blair to mock Thatcher's Conservatives as "the party of Pinochet" in 1999. Those circumstances left Britain's reputation for loyalty and fair dealing in tatters. What about the fact that Chile was turned from chaotic collectivism into the model economy of Latin America? Our reputation sustains our interests. Today I break my self-denying ordinance. Lady Thatcher visits General Pinochet on the Wentworth estate, where he spent much of his 16-month detention in Britain. Senator Pinochet was then held for six days illegally under that warrant. For this is a government that grovels to collaborate with Spain, whose bullying of Gibraltar is a daily outrage - yet treats our Chilean allies with contempt. Thatcher had the economics part of the equation worked out; it’s too bad she had an immense Warboner, sang the praises of dictators like Pinochet, called Nelson Mandela a … They should understand the deep sense of shame and anger we feel at the way in which Chile - its honour, its dignity, its sovereignty and its former ruler - have been treated. We know this was done under what the courts later ruled was an unlawful arrest warrant. They should understand the deep sense of shame and anger we feel at the way in which Chile - its honour, its dignity, its sovereignty and its former ruler - have been treated. Without President Pinochet, there would certainly have been many more. 7.52 p.m. Anything that happens then will be the direct responsibility of this Government and, in particular, of Jack Strawthe Home Secretary. But what they couldn't and wouldn't abandon was the poisonous prejudices they harboured in their youth. Little could he imagine that a new, legal and political assassination was to be planned for him in the Britain he trusted as a friend. The same is true, in my opinion, of Thatcher, a similarly authoritarian free-marketeer. And for a very good reason - to express my outrage at the callous and unjust treatment of Senator Pinochet. As Eduardo Frei, the former Christian Democrat president of Chile put it: "The military saved Chile". That inhumane arrest But how did the authorities, under this Labour Government, choose to repay it? What is planned there is a show-trial, with a pre-ordained outcome - lingering death in a foreign land. Why is it, I wonder, that those queuing up to accuse Senator Pinochet of every grotesque abuse imaginable don't mention the positive legacy of his rule in Chile? The issue is the approach to which human rights are enumerated and how conflicts between them are resolved. Watch: A speech given by Margaret Thatcher calling for the release of General Pinochet after he was indicted for human rights abuses and put under house arrest during a visit to Britain in 1998. And that he respected the result, and handed over to an elected successor? The country thus owes him a great debt. As he himself admits, there were abuses in the wake of the military coup. Until the Senator's arrest last October, Chile had achieved three remarkable successes, all of them in large measure due to former President Pinochet. Though I shall not go into the details, I can say that without President Pinochet's considerable practical help in 1982, many more of our servicemen would have lost their lives in the South Atlantic. 1945-52. Thatcher with Pinochet and his wife in 2000 in Surrey, where the former Chilean dictator was under house arrest. So far, the Chileans have behaved with great restraint. The great majority of Chileans, even the political opponents of Senator Pinochet, feel wounded at the way we and the Spanish have treated them. We must pay heed to the implications of an international lynch-law which, under the guise of defending human rights, now threatens to subvert British justice and the rights of sovereign nations. Our ties are very close, and have been ever since Admiral Cochrane helped free Chile from oppressive Spanish rule. Chile thus enjoyed prosperity, democracy and reconciliation--until we and the Spanish arrogantly chose to interfere in her affairs. To the delight of an adoring crowd, the woman known as the Iron Lady accused Britain of leaving Pinochet in the lurch after he saved British lives during the Falkland Islands' War. Defence (Falklands War, 1982), Foreign policy (general discussions), Foreign policy (Americas excluding USA), Labour Party & socialism. The Left in Chile, and in Britain, had to abandon all the rhetoric, and most of the policies, of socialism in order to get power. Senator Pinochet came here last September as a long-standing friend of Britain. Assessment of Thatcher's tenure. Senator Pinochet is in truth on trial, not for anything contained in Judge Garzon's indictment, but for defeating communism. The precise extent of Ministers' and officials' involvement with the Spanish authorities is still obscure. Thatcher was a steadfast defender of Augusto Pinochet, whose unspeakably brutal dictatorship of torture and repression terrorized Chile from 1973 to 1990. I will tell you. Similarly, on 22nd September last year, when he entered Britain on a diplomatic passport charged with a special mission by the current Chilean President, he was accorded all the privileges of an ambassador, including the protection of the Metropolitan Police Diplomatic Protection Squad. That he held a referendum to decide whether or not he should remain in power? And there are implications for heads of government everywhere, as they see that at some future date they may be hauled out of hospital in a foreign country at dead of night to face some trumped up charge. And for a very good reason - to express my outrage at the callous and unjust treatment of Senator Pinochet. We know that he was then arrested by night on his bed of pain, after a spinal operation, in circumstances which would do credit to a police state. They are right to do so. The precise responsibility for what happened can only be judged in Chile. Pinochet's enemies hated him because of his success in transforming Chile's economy under a free market model, Lady Thatcher argued. But we will fight on fo… He gave us early warning of Argentinian air attacks, which allowed the task-force to take defensive action. Or perhaps he will breathe his last in a Spanish hospital, awaiting some interminable, contemptible semblance of justice. Human rights campaigners have hit back at Baroness Thatcher's claim that General Augusto Pinochet is being detained in Britain as a "political prisoner". There are implications for Chile, where the small minority of communists who once nearly wrecked the country under Allende will now be encouraged to overturn the prosperous, democratic order that Pinochet and his successors built. Of course it is. This is a government which reckons that ageing spies, who betrayed our country to Soviet communism, should escape prosecution - yet obsessively pursues the frail 83 year-old Pinochet, who stopped the communists taking Chile. Listen instead to President Aylwin, Pinochet's democratically elected successor and frequent opponent, who said: "the Allende government was planning, with the assistance of an armed militia of enormous military power, to establish a communist dictatorship". Thatcher wrote: ‘Scotch is one British institution that will never let you down.’ Same Participants Assange in … Mrs Thatcher had no direct personal dealings with Pinochet while she was in Downing Street, despite the cooperation detailed below. The Spanish, Socialist prosecuting magistrate has simply assembled any charge whatsoever that he thinks might fit the bill - even though there is no evidence of Senator Pinochet's involvement in, or even knowledge of, the cases concerned, and even though not one concerns a Spaniard. That Treaty envisaged, of course, that all the courts of countries which signed the Extradition Convention would behave in an honest and equitable fashion, and that those extradited would receive a fair trial. Baroness Thatcher has visited General Pinochet while he is under house arrest Former prime minister Baroness Thatcher will make her first speech to the Conservative conference since leaving office when she addresses a meeting organised by supporters of General Augusto Pinochet. But we will fight on for as long as it takes to see Senator Pinochet returned safely to his own country. Chileans can rest assured that, however contemptibly this Labour Government behaves, the British people still believe in loyalty to their friends. Thirdly, Chile is also remarkable because President Pinochet established a constitution for a return to democracy, held a plebiscite to decide whether or not he should remain in power, lost the vote (though gaining 44 per cent support), respected the result and handed over power to a democratically-elected Perhaps he will die here, as this country's only political prisoner. It was prepared for Lady Thatcher in 1999 when Pinochet was arrested and placed under house arrest in London. We all owe him - and Chile - a great debt. There is a widespread suspicion that there had been collusion between the British and Spanish authorities prior to the arrest, when the Chileans were not given the warning they might have expected about the imminent risk. Altogether, some 250 members of our armed forces lost their lives during the Falklands War. However, some weeks later the general was arrested in hospital at dead of night, when under heavy sedation following a serious back operation. The people of Britain, too, should reflect on what has been revealed about the priorities of this Labour Government. British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher credited Pinochet with bringing about a thriving, free-enterprise economy, while at the same time downplaying the junta's human rights record, condemning an "organised international Left who are bent on revenge." During the Falklands War, the Chilean airforce was commanded by the father of Senator Evelyn Matthei, here with us tonight. We know that the Chileans were led to believe that he was safe, when the British authorities already knew that to be false. On President Pinochet's express instructions, and at great risk, Chile provided enormously valuable assistance. The chance of Senator Pinochet's receiving anything resembling what we in Britain would recognise as "justice" in a Spanish court is minimal - not least because key witnesses for his defence run the risk of immediate arrest if they set foot on Spanish soil. After leaving power he was accordingly received here as an honoured guest on a number of occasions. Full text of Margaret Thatcher's speech to the Blackpool fringe ... And for a very good reason, namely to express my outrage at the callous and unjust treatment of Senator Pinochet… This is a Pandora's box which has been opened--and unless Senator Pinochet returns safely to Chile, there will be no hope of closing it. But let me mention just one incident. What the Left can't forgive is that Pinochet undoubtedly saved Chile and helped save South America. That he lost the vote (though gaining 44 per cent support)? Margaret Thatcher's comment to Augusto Pinochet (above) in 1998 is one such example. The Pinochet case has sullied that reputation. But it is an affront to commonsense, as well as a caricature of justice, to maintain that a head of government must automatically accept criminal responsibility for everything that is done while he is in power - whether he authorised it or not, whether he overlooked it or not, whether he knew about it or not. Altogether, some 250 members of our armed forces lost their lives during the Falklands War. But on his fate depends much else besides. The country thus owes him a great debt. Copyright © Margaret Thatcher Foundation 2021. Before news cameras, the by then retired PM firmly told the ex-Chilean dictator, "It … It is well-known that counselling this prosecuting magistrate at every stage is Allende's former political adviser, working with a network of other Marxists in Spain and Chile. In conclusion, I think that Hayek’s support for Pinochet was a natural consequence of his system of thought and not an aberration. Henceforth, all former heads of government are potentially at risk; those still in government will be inhibited from taking the right action in a crisis, because they may later appear before a foreign court to answer for it and--this is where I was when I was interrupted--in a final ironic twist, those who do wield absolute power in their countries are highly unlikely now to relinquish it for fear of ending their days in a Spanish prison. I know - I was Prime Minister at the time. By collaborating in Senator Pinochet's judicial kidnap. All you need to know about who Thatcher was. In a 1999 speech at the International Free Enterprise Dinner, Thatcher would attack Pinochet’s detractors before going on to say: “The qualities that made Britain what she is haven't changed. We all owe him - and Chile - a great debt. My friends, this is a government which discredits and dishonours Britain. Copyright © Margaret Thatcher Foundation 2021. But we should not assume that this will continue, particularly if Senator Pinochet, who is not now in the best of health, were to die in Britain or is taken to Spain. But the Spanish judicial procedure in this matter has been little short of scandalous. Secondly, Chile has seen the establishment of a thriving, free-enterprise economy which has transformed living standards and made Chile into a model for Latin America. With the economic crises of 1982 the "monetarist experiment" was widely regarded a failure. successor. Without President Pinochet, there would certainly have been many more. She first met him while on a … I never thought in my lifetime to see the honour of Britain and the reputation of British justice so demeaned as in this affair. For our Home Secretary, who visited Chile as a young left-wing activist, that must have been very distressing. MT was speaking on a question tabled by Lord Lamont of Lerwick: "To ask Her Majesty’s government what were the circumstances and background of the arrest of Senator Pinochet; what was the role of the police, the Crown Prosecution Service, Ministers and the Diplomatic Service; and what has been the effect on Anglo-Chilean relations". It can hardly have been much pleasanter for our Prime Minister, who recently described Allende as his "hero". 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