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Pinochet-era Intelligence Agent Faces Extradition from Australia.

In February 2019, Rivas was arrested in Sydney. Later this month, an Australian court will decide whether Rivas will be extradited to Chile. Chileans in Australia say she may not be the only DINA agent who is evading the justice system.

In her original interview in 2013, Rivas defended the use of torture under the brutal U.S.-backed Pinochet regime, saying that, “The same way the Nazis did, it was necessary. It’s the only way to break people.” Rivas claimed those were the “best years of my youth.”