International News - Neo-Nazis Rampage In Chile

Neo-Nazis are terrorizing a Chilean city, and two members of the group are now on trial for the murder of a 19-year-old. Approximately 20 members of a local gang in Quillota, a city about 60 miles northwest of the capital city of Santiago, reportedly go out on nightly runs to "clean" the city of homosexuals, drug addicts and left-wing punk adolescents. Though the gang is not targeting Jews - few are believed to live in Quillota - one local resident told JTA that Quillota's streets are filled with graffiti including swastikas; the spider-like symbol of Patria y Libertad, or Fatherland and Freedom, an extreme right-wing group with close links to Nazis who came to Chile after World War II; the Southern Hammer, the name of a new neo-Nazi group in the area; the slogan "No to Communism, no to Capitalism, yes to Nazism"; and numbers representing the years that have passed since the birth of Hitler.