Plus he left Chile a healthy capitalist economy. Neither all saint nor all sinner, Pinochet did handle the communists better than most and Chile is better off from his rule than it would have been from the same time under Allende, who planned to consolidate his marxist hold on the country and then to begin exporting it to the rest of South America. QDEP
Right!
You're falling into the same (il)logical trap that I'm reading elsehwere in this thread. Since Allende was evil, and Pinochet opposed him, then Pinochet must be good. Doesn't work that way. Allende every bit the commie and would-be dictator as portrayed on this thread. That is not in question.
However, just because Pinochet looks better when juxtoposed with Allende, doesn't mean that Pinochet was a good man. The brutal truth is that he MURDERED thousands to achieve his goals. He built a system of gulags modeled on the Soviets and used them ruthlessly against his political enemies. There is nothing about this man which is admirable.