Pinochet is the hero of Chile. A fine man
Due to the fact that this important perspective is often overlooked or bypassed -dare I say- censored by the mainstream press: it has often been easy to vilify him without taking into consideration of the proper context.
One recent leftist claimed that Pinochet ordered or killed 30,000 Chileans after the coup. Being a product of the US education system, this leftist obviously can’t tell the difference between 3,000 and 30,000.
The real point is that most of the Chilean Communist Party and Socialist Party leaders were alive and allowed to go into exile in East German, Cuba, etc. Allende’s daughter Beatrice was married to a senior Cuban secret police/DGI official (and mysteriously committed suicide a few years later).
Can’t remember any communist regime letting their captives go like that. They just killed them en mass.
Pinochet was no angel but he was not the mass murderer the Left has portrayed him as. That would actually apply to Castro, his brother Raul, and Che Guevera.
We need the General today in MANY countries... including ours. :-\
Both Pinochet and Franco saved their respective countries, and yet they get no appreciation from the following generations who benefitted from what they did.
Wait, Nixon was president in 1973, not Carter.
El Caudillo