Just like slavery was ended and the Union saved in spite of Lincoln, not because of him, hmm ? You have a very strange mindset, sir.
The threat of a communist-totalitarian (throw in Islamofascism under that aegis, all leftist evils) takeover remains a clear and present danger, not just then, but still today, and not just in South America.
So you would be happier under a Pinochet than under a democratically elected government?
Lincoln managed to do that AND work with a democratically elected Congress AND operate within the guidelines of the Constitution AND hold an open election where he stood a very real chance of losing. Like I said, Pinochet was the very antithesis of Abraham Lincoln.