No personal bone, other than the attrocities committed under his watch far outweigh any positives that came out of his reign after he assumed and retained power 'legally', imo.
Why would you have an urge to rush to his defense?
You'll have to ask our past administrations why they were so tardy re: the other thousands of people tortured,killed and disappeared, or the UN or the OAS .. or.. yourself maybe.
"yourself maybe" - that makes tons of sense.
Anyway, my question was why you single out Pinochet as the prime object of your indignation, while he was by far not the worst of them. I don't rush at his defence, but I have no use for his opponents either, I have eaten my fill of socialism, so I am kind of prone to believe that he saved Chile from a far worse fate. No social systems killed more people throughout the world than socialism/communism (and the irony it all is nobody even knows what it stands for, so nobody can tell for the sake of what all those millions of people were killed for).