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Proudly announcing the Winston Dwight Cabello international house fellowship
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The Winston Dwight Cabello International House Fellowship at The University of California at Berkeley
This fellowship represents a unique cooperation among the Graduate Division of the University of California at Berkeley, the International House at Berkeley and the Cabello Family. The Fellowship covers two years of doctoral level work, room and board at the International House, and a stipend.
The Cabello family and friends have established this Fellowship to honor the memory of Winston Dwight Cabello, a victim of the Caravan of Death during the 1973 military coup in Chile. The idea of the fellowship is an appropriate legacy to Winston’s life and ideals. He followed his father’s path as a teacher and later became an economist and worked in the Allende government. As Winston always valued education, the family and friends feel that Winston’s ideals will live on through this fellowship. The logical university to realize this dream was the University of California because many members of the Cabello family earned their degrees there. Additionally, the Cabello family owes a debt of gratitude to many members of the university who were instrumental in helping several family members to obtain safe passage to the United States following the military coup in Chile.
The International House at Berkeley, with its ideals of a common humanity, and its mission of fostering fellowship, understanding, and mutual respect across cultural and national lines, will nurture the Winston Dwight Cabello International House Fellows to achieve academic and intellectual growth.
If you are interested in applying for this Fellowship, contact the graduate division of the University of California at www.berkeley.edu/applying/index.html#grad
If you are interested in contributing to the Fellowship fund, please contact us by e-mail at mailto:fellowship@WinstonCabello.org or call 1-510-452-0200.
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Winston Dwight Cabello en memoria a wito y las victimas de la caravana de la muerte
Veronica Silva viuda de Cabello, Marcela y Susan Cabello |
El mundo que vivió Wito esta impregnado por la necesidad que los jóvenes tuvieron de ver que la sociedad chilena alcanzara el desarrollo. Por eso, como hijo de profesor, entendió que cualquier sueño era imposible de realizar si las personas no se preparaban adecuadamente, visualizando en la educación un pilar fundamental que permite a las personas tener la posibilidad de poder elegir el mundo en el cual quieren vivir. Y ese mundo soñado donde las acciones se encaminaban hacia la solidaridad y cooperación, la necesidad de educación se hace visible a los ojos de Wito al elegir como primera profesión la Educación ejerciéndola con alegría, cariño y respeto hacia quienes estaban preparándose para tener un futuro mejor.
La sociedad en permanente cambio tiene la oportunidad de ver sus acciones, buenas y no tanto, a través de quienes tienen la capacidad de ver mas allá de lo inmediato, viendo que los problemas son solucionables teniendo como herramienta la preparación académica.
Wito dejo sus apuntes de clases, en ellos se ve la dedicación y también el esfuerzo por entregar fielmente las bases necesarias para enfrentar con seguridad las distintas materias de aprendizaje escolar…y más que eso, ser capaces de enfrentar la vida de mejor manera y de tener las agallas para imponernos nuevos desafíos.
Susan Cabello
Declaracion de Veronica, Marcela y Susan
El amor formó nuestra familia. El odio, la intolerancia y la brutalidad nos arrebató la vida de nuestro querido Winston, de golpe, nos hemos visto involucrados por 30 años en la búsqueda de la verdad y con las ansias permanentes de obtener justicia.
Hoy, a pocos días de cumplirse un año más del paso de la Caravana de la Muerte por la ciudad de Copiapó, donde 13 personas murieron dejando un espacio vacío en sus hogares y, gracias a los resultados de este juicio realizado en Estados Unidos, nos sentimos ciertamente privilegiadas y esperamos representar a quienes han mantenido una lucha permanente y anónima por descubrir la verdad en cada rincón de Chile en los que se ha derramado sangre de inocentes tal como han actuado los familiares de Winston que han colaborado de una u otra manera en dar los pasos necesarios para empujar esta causa.
Esperamos, sinceramente, que todos los familiares de quienes fueron asesinados por miembros de la comitiva liderada por Sergio Arellano Stark, en la cual participó activamente Armando Fernández Larios, vean en este juicio un paso más para mitigar el dolor de la ausencia de sus seres queridos. Especialmente, hablamos por la Agrupación de Familiares de Ejecutados Políticos de Copiapó, por quienes cargan en sus espaldas el sufrimiento, la impotencia, el sueño y la necesidad de que todo comience a cambiar.
Se da un paso, la justicia aplicada en tierras extranjeras, en este caso aquí en Miami, es vital para hacer vigente la discusión en Chile sobre la necesidad de realizar reformas legales profundas que permitan hacer efectiva la justicia, en particular la eliminación de la ley de amnistía que ha sido por años uno de los grandes obstáculos para la solución de crímenes ocurridos durante la dictadura militar de nuestro país.
Queremos compartir especialmente este resultado con las familias de Magindo, Ricardo y Benito, asesinados en los alrededores de Copiapó, porque ellos no han sido encontrados y se vive en el temor de no encontrar ni siquiera la justicia que merecen.
Finalmente, queremos agradecer a los abogados por el esfuerzo realizado al tratar de entender los hechos en el contexto histórico de lo sucedido en un país lejano, motivados por la búsqueda de verdad y justicia, creyendo firmemente en la honorabilidad, bondad y calidad humana de nuestro amado Winston Cabello.
Verónica Silva, viuda de Winston Cabello
Susan y Marcela, hijas
Miami, Florida
15 de octubre, 2003
Si desea comunicarse con nosotros, escribanos a postmaster@WinstonCabello.org
Nos gustaria recibir informaciones, pensamientos o articulos relacionados con Winston, o victimas de La Caravana de la Muerte, para publicar en esta pagina web.
El Caso Cabello vs. Fernandez Larios (Version en Ingles)

The trial against Pinochet operative Armando Fernandez Larios for the torture and murder of Chilean Economist Winston Cabello ended in victory on October 15, 2003. A Miami jury found Fernandez, in his role as a member of Caravan of Death a military squad acting under orders from Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet liable for torture, crimes against humanity, and extra judicial killing. They awarded four million dollars in compensatory and punitive damages to Elsa Cabello, Zita Cabello-Barrueto, Karin Moriarty, and Aldo Cabello. They are Winston's mother, sisters, and brother all of whom now live in the Bay Area. Winston was one of the 70 or more civilians executed by the Caravan. The trial marks the first time any Pinochet operative has been tried in the United States for their role in human rights abuses committed in Chile, as well as the first jury verdict for crimes against humanity in the United States. The verdict also coincided with the fifth anniversary of the arrest of Augusto Pinochet in London. Pinochet was being sought for having ordered the deaths that took place during the Caravan of Death. While Pinochet was never brought to justice, at least there was an acknowledgment by the court in this case that what the Caravan did to Winston Cabello and others constituted a crime against humanity.
The jury found Fernandez liable as a member of the Caravan for conspiring to commit, and aiding and abetting in, the torture, cruel and inhumane treatment, and extra-judicial killing of Mr. Cabello. The Caravan of Death traveled through Chile by helicopter to different towns within weeks after the 1973 Pinochet-led coup etat ordering the deaths of political prisoners detained by Pinochet's military junta.
A Chilean amnesty law prevented Fernandez prosecution in Chile, and U.S. criminal laws do not permit prosecution for summary killings committed abroad, or for torture committed abroad before 1994. The civil suit brought by Cabello family, therefore, was the only avenue available to them to pursue justice against Fernandez Larios. Fernandez came to the United States in 1987 after reaching a plea agreement with federal prosecutors in which he pleaded guilty to covering up the responsibility of the Chilean secret service for its responsibility for the 1976 car-bomb assassination of former Chilean ambassador Orlando Letelier and his American assistant Ronni. After serving a five-month federal prison term, Fernandez moved to Miami-Dade County.
Robert Kerrigan, of Kerrigan, Estess, Rankin & McLeod based in Pensacola, Florida, & Leo Cunningham, a partner with the firm of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, in Silicon Valley, California, were co-lead counsel in the case and provided their services pro bono. The case against Fernandez Larios was born out of the large number of inquiries received by CJA following the arrest of Chilean former General Augusto Pinochet in London in mid-October 1998. CJA developed a project to respond to the needs of Chilean exiles in the U.S., many of whom wanted to support or assist in the prosecution of Pinochet or to seek redress against his subordinates known to be in the U.S. In response, CJA established satellite legal intake clinics in San Francisco, San Jose, Stockton, Los Angeles, and New York that allowed CJA to obtain information about these individuals experiences and needs in an effort to assess the best means of assistance.
As a result, CJA sought the release of classified information in U.S. government files related to crimes committed by Pinochet and his subordinates, helped Chileans in the U.S. to present their testimony to prosecutors in Spain and Chile and coordinated efforts with similar organizations internationally, facilitated referrals for appropriate counseling through Survivors International, a torture treatment center in San Francisco; and filled the case against Fernandez Larios on behalf the Cabello family after it was established he was living in Miami.
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