Cabello v. Fernández-Larios, 1996-2009

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Physical description:

10 boxes

Scope and content:

Materials include filed case materials, trials transcripts, discovery files, exhibits, and the CJA's research into Pinochet. Also included are audio and video recordings of 15 depositions. The case also went through an estate pleading and an appeal, both of which are represented in the collection.

Materials in this collection may include violent acts, including firsthand accounts and descriptions of torture and violent deaths.

Biographical / historical:

In 1973, Chilean General Augusto Pinochet led a coup that deposed then-President Salvador Allende. Subsequently, a military death squad commonly referred to as the "Caravan of Death" arrested Winston Cabello, an economist for the Allende government. After five weeks of torture, Armando Fernández Larios and others within the "Caravan of Death" executed Cabello and other prisoners. After the bodies were recovered in 1990, Cabello's family and the Center for Justice and Accountability (CJA) filed a civil suit against Fernández Larios. A 2003 Florida jury ruled in favor of the CJA's clients, awarding the Cabello family $4 million in damages. This was the first U.S. trial carried out against a defendant of Pinochet's military dictatorship.

Parts of the Biographical Note were adapted from the CJA's website: "Pinochet's Caravan of Death: Cabello v. Fernandez Larios" https://cja.org/what-we-do/litigation/cabello-v-fernandez-larios/ (accessed April 14, 2022).

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