Talk:Vicariate of Solidarity

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Cristian Opazo (talk) 20:27, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

Content removed from Introduction
I removed the following unsourced content from the Introduction. (Actually, its last home, briefly, was the Background section, but it had just been moved there from the Introduction section.) Some of this infromation duplicates other information (added later, but sourced).

The Vicariate evolved from an ecumenical peace commission called the Committee of Cooperation for Peace in Chile (COPACHI), which was started in early October 1973 by the Catholic Church with the support of other churches to defend Chilean citizens from the human rights violations occurring as a result of the coup a month earlier. Representatives of different churches organized a group to sign the Committee's constitution and met regularly after that until conflicts with the government developed. COPACHI grew quickly, and over its short period of existence investigated a broad range of human rights violations.

In May 1974, Augusto Pinochet's government stopped viewing it as a humanitarian organization, as it had been seen before, and began to see it as the opposition. COPACHI eventually dissolved because the government was upset that it provided information to the Church, international organizations, embassies and international press corps about the government's repressive actions. Between September and November 1975, many COPACHI workers were detained and threatened in their homes, and the co-president was forbidden to re-enter the country. Pinochet called for it to disband because he claimed it disrupted public order. Suddenly, people who used to turn to COPACHI for help had nowhere to go, and started to visit the Vicars of Santiago to ask them to create a different group.

Some of it is unique, useful content, that would be good to add back to the article, if it can be sourced. Mathglot (talk) 09:41, 24 September 2018 (UTC)

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