Documents negate allegations against Global Compact Board member

The Business and Human Rights Resource Center has published several letters and a certificate provided by Global Compact Board member Guillermo Carey, in response to allegations raised by a reporter of the Chilean newspaper La Nación. The author of the article in La Nación said that she had documents alleging that Mr. Carey was involved in the events that led to the kidnapping and assassination of Commander-in-Chief General René Schneider in 1970.

The four letters posted on the website of the Business and Human Rights Resource Center disassociate Mr. Carey from the allegations and support his current work on human rights issues. Mr. Carey also provided a certificate issued by a military court in 1993, which states that he was never brought to trial in the case over General Schneider’s assassination.

In one of the letters, the director of Revista El Periodista, Francisco Martorell, explains that in 2003 his magazine published a long list of people linked to the military regime and that Mr. Carey's name was included in that list by mistake. El Periodista later clarified that Mr. Carey should not have been on the list and apologized. According to Mr. Martorell, Mr. Carey has played a key role in working with indigenous communities and in social issues. "I hereby witness, based on our journalistic and research work, that Mr. Carey plays an appropriate role to the position he holds and that the attacks against him are petty and with a clear purpose. Moreover, as we certainly know, he is now leading an initiative in order the Chilean Courts of Law recognize their responsibility regarding the human rights abuses that occurred between 1973 and 1990 during Augusto Pinochet’s government", says Mr. Martorell.

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