More about possible changes in Chile's military justice system

Paul Contreras writes in Diario Constitucional:

The State of Chile has already been condemned by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights for the operation of military justice. The Palamara (2005) and Almonacid (2006) cases laid the foundations for the infractions and are currently pending compliance by the State. In accordance with the decisions of the Court, Chile has a military judiciary whose organization lacks basic guarantees of independence and impartiality, guarantees of due process and that maintains excessive competition, in which the military courts in peacetime hear cases that exceed the strict competence and function that corresponds to these special courts.