Over time, the government has adopted more sophisticated methods of repression and the international community has relaxed its gaze. In recent years, Chile has all but disappeared from the front pages of the world's newspapers and from the conscious dialogue of caring persons. This means that the Chilean government, has in part been successful in its tactics. In order to respond, we on the outside must focus our scrutiny in a similarly sophisticated manner in order to combat the continuing abuses which the military has imposed. Increasingly, reliance is placed on psychological terror.
Physical torture continues, but to a greater degree it is no longer state sponsored.
Few who have followed this evolution believe that the government has ceased torture and terror, ways simply have been created to disguise government complicity. Means also have been found to institutionalize fear and repression through the placement of military administrators in government ministries, formerly under civilian control, in several of the universities, and in other institutions of society. Practically speaking, municipal government is under the constant eye and authority of the military regime. Our purpose is to bring to world attention what has taken place, and to help restore concern and outrage for the terror that persists, until it is finally and totally undone.