The Left hates Gen Pinochet to this day (remember when they had him, an Argentine Senator, detained for a year in Britain 20 years ago on the basis of a warrant issued by a Spanish judge - the bastards).
They hate him BECAUSE he was the first leader in the post-war era to show that the “inevitable scientific progress of Marxism-Leninism aka ‘communism’” COULD BE STOPPED and reversed.
He has always been one of my all-time heroes for this reason. He was - quite literally - the savior of Argentine sovereignty and culture, not to mention economy, which he transformed into the most advanced and successful in Latin America.