He was a hero, indeed.
Now Chile enjoys the best economy in all of Latin America, even if they don't appreciate Pinochet's role in creating it.
Not often said about Latin American or South American leaders - but that is a picture of an heroic bunch. Pinochet steered his country away from the abyss of Socialism to 40 years of relative prosperity.
He was a hero, indeed.
Now Chile enjoys the best economy in all of Latin America, even if they don't appreciate Pinochet's role in creating it.
Another general did something similar in Indonesia.
Suharto inflicted quite simply the most devastating defeat on Communism prior to the fall of the Berlin Wall. He did so without the help of a single US boot on the ground and saved the most important “domino” in SE Asia (indeed if anyone in Washington had been paying attention they would have realised there was no need to get involved in Vietnam after 1965). He then oversaw a massive spurt of development and economic progress while acting as one of the US’ biggest allies in Asia.
And yet when he died, so ingrained was leftist propaganda in US society, the invective and abuse that was dumped on him here on this forum was astonishing. The same applies to Indonesia today, the most tolerant, democratic and liberal state in SE Asia (admittedly not setting the bar high) but the hatred for Indonesia knows few bounds on this forum.
One almost suspects that people would like Indonesia more if the Communists had won.