Fair enough - I'm not claiming the man was a saint. Only that he did more good than harm.
is he still dead???
Anyone who has done more good than harm while on his earthly pilgrimage is destined to become a saint. Anyone not on the road to sainthood is destined for damnation or non-sainthood. Sacred Scripture, testifies that the number of those destined for damnation outnumbers those destined for sainthood. Augusto Pinochet opposed error; the error of Hegel, Karl Marx, Lenin and a host of other godless communists and materialistic atheists. Not to oppose error is to testify to be in error, or even worse, to be indifferent to error.
It is an incomplete notion of freedom to imagine that one can be free to persist in error and to forcibly spread that error upon others as we have witnessed in so many countries since the end of WWII. Generalissimo Augusto Pinochet understood this and took action against the spread of atheistic communism in Chile--which pervades, imbues and infects so many western political mentalities under the name of socialism, democracy and republicanism.