![]() ![]() Chileans in Australia say she may not be the only DINA agent who is evading the justice system. Later this month, an Australian court will decide whether Rivas will be extradited to Chile. In February 2019, Rivas was arrested in Sydney. In 2011, she fled Chile to avoid prosecution. ![]() Known as “la Chany ,” Rivas took an abrasive and arrogant tone as she admitted that in 2007, she had been arrested by Chilean authorities during a routine trip to her home country. In her interview, Rivas conceded that she had been a member of the Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional (Directorate of National Intelligence, DINA) from 1973-1977 during the Pinochet dictatorship. ![]() The ASIO officers were posted to Chile in 1973, when General Augusto Pinochet overthrew the socialist government of Salvador Allende, with the support of the CIA. Melgar was researching the collaboration of two Australian intelligence (ASIO) officers with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Her comfortable life took a turn in 2013, when Rivas decided to talk to journalist Florencia Melgar of the Australian broadcasters SBS. Rivas, now 67, was active in soccer and church activities in the Chilean community, one of Australia’s largest Latin American diasporas. She lived a good life in affluent Bondi Beach, Sydney, in public housing provided by the Australian government. Adriana Rivas arrived in Australia in 1978 from her native Chile and worked as a nanny. ![]()
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