Congressmen and former government ministers remain imprisoned on Dawsons Islandstill not formally charged and still prohibited from contact with the outside world and still living under brutal conditions. Letters I continue to receive from inside Chile contain allegations of torture and deaths of individual prisoners. Chileans and foreign refugees continue to remain within foreign embassies unable to secure either a guarantee for their safety within Chile or permission to leave the country. They include the former Minister of Agriculture Jacques Choncol. a recognized expert on agriculture in developing countries. who also held a high government post under former President Frel. Although no formal charge has been filed against him. he allegedly is accused of being responsible for a downturn in agricultural performance. charges that would presumably threaten Secretary Butz if they were to be made the criteria between freedom and imprisonment.
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