[GoGophers]

Franco's people and Pinochet's people both saw their leaders as interim, benevolent dictators.

Seventeen years is not interim and executing thousands of political prisoners is not benevolent.

[Rodney King]

Seventeen years is not interim and executing thousands of political prisoners is not benevolent

Political prisoner is a loaded term. A marxist rebel armed by Cuba, who is essentially a foregin agent trying to take over your country is not the same as a poet who writes stuff against the government - which is what the term political prisoner brings to mind.