Posted on 12/16/2006 12:46:46 PM PST by lqclamar
Michelle Bachelet is the current commie president of Chile who made news all week by trashing Gen. Augusto Pinochet after he died. She adamantly refused to give state recognition for Pinochet's funeral, as is customary for former Chilean presidents when they die. Before his death Bachelet was one of the main driving forces attempting to get Pinochet prosecuted for "war crimes" against the dozens of Castro-backed marxist terror cells that he stamped out during his rule.
At the funeral earlier this week Pinochet's grandson Augusto Pinochet Molina, a Chilean army captain, praised his grandfather's legacy. Bachelet retaliated against Molina for praising his own grandfather by ordering his discharge from the army.
The left wing media, of course, has been hailing Bachelet as a heroine all week. She was a "survivor" of Pinochet - a young innocent student who was arrested and exiled herself as "political prisoner," and whose "innocent" father died in captivity by Pinochet. The reality is a lot different and this article proves that Bachelet was no innocent peaceful political dissident. Her father was a high ranking communist official in the Allende regime, who repeatedly refused offers to leave Chile in exile with the rest of the Allendists.
As for Michelle Bachelet herself - turns out that she's a Soviet apparatchik who to this day fondly reminisces to this day about the four years she spent as a student activist "flower child" and personal guest of the Communist Party in East Germany. The following excerpts appeared last month on the Deutsche Welle news wire when Bachelet made a visit to the now-unified Germany, and dropped in on some of her old commie friends:
(SOURCE: http://www.dw-world.de/popups/popup_printcontent/0,,2206882,00.html)
When Chilean President Michelle Bachelet begins her visit to Germany on Wednesday, she will be returning to the former communist East where she lived in exile. Locals still remember her as a hippie with a cause....
"We were told that Chileans were moving in next door and that we should help them settle -- tell them how German society works and show them where the shops are," remembers Elke Pissarek, a former neighbor in Potsdam's Lilienstrasse. "Her mother was bourgeois, she could not understand that we had to line up outside of shops," she said.
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The Bachelets were invited to the GDR under an agreement between the East German authorities and the Socialist Party of Chile, which Bachelet had joined as a student in Santiago. She recently told the German weekly newspaper Die Zeit that she has fond memories of her four years behind the Iron Curtain
... "Whether the readers like to hear this or not, the time I spent in Potsdam and Leipzig was a very happy part of my life," she said. "I was 23 years old when I came here. I could continue my studies. I got married and it is also the place where I had my first child. My experience in Germany was beautiful."
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Elke Pissarek's husband Detlev said he remembered a young woman with firm political views who loved to play music with her Chilean friends in the basement of the gray apartment block they shared..."She was discreet, not pushy at all, but at the same time she was politically engaged and in favor of radical solutions. She was clearly ready to return to Chile and to take up arms for her beliefs"
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Luis Gonzalez, recalls a 1970s flower-child with a serious streak. "She was slim and beautiful, she looked like a hippie with her long hair and her jeans. But one could see that she was a leader, that she knew how to inspire people," he said. "In a way, she cut her teeth here. I think it is great that she has remained true to her convictions," Detlev Pissarek said, while his wife said she hoped Bachelet could inspire all of Latin America to swing to the left.
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Bachelet's visit will not take her to Potsdam, but she will stop in Leipzig, the eastern city where she spent months studying German at what was then called Karl Marx University.
So there you have it - Michelle Bachelet, current President of Chile and avowed communist apparatchik - in her own words and in the eyes of her old East German communist party friends. This subversive left wing agitator's attacks on Pinochet all week are the height of liberal hypocrisy. According to her Stasi friends down at the GDR Politburo, Bachelet herself spent the 70's longing to return to Chile to take up arms against Pinochet with the all Che Guevara wannabes that the Soviets and Castro were sending there to subvert his government.
Well, Pinochet did not finished the cleaning - the leftover commies are way too numerous.
She's a typical leftist hypocrite sleazebag - if Pinochet stamps out a couple hundred marxist revolutionary terrorists before they have the chance to set car bombs off in the middle of downtown Santiago or commit genocidal murder on the "bourgeois" and take their land, he's a "monster" committing "human rights abuses." But if she decides to run around behind the iron curtain with the East German stasi and support thuggish Castro-backed guerilla revolutionaries, it's only "political dissent."
Excellent post. If anything, it makes me like Pinochet less for failing to diappear this "victim".
It is certain that Salvador Allende, Bachelet's commie father, and the rest of their verminous regime would NOT have afforded conservatives a similar opportunity if the tables were turned and they were carrying out their quest to rid Chile of its "bourgeois" landowners.
Her very existence proves Pinochet's point.
did not finished = had not finished. mental misfire.
Come see the real colors (red) of another of Pinochet's "victims."
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Forget the 'turn to the left' crowd in Latin America. Chavismo is dead, and that may have been the hard left's final gasp. Bachelet, Lula, Kirchner and the rest are already palpable frauds. Bachelet especially, clinging to the free market while denouncing the man who brought it to her country. In their wake will come a wave of right liberalism, eg. free markets, property rights and business orientation.
Thank you for this excellent post. I suspected there was more to Bachelet than the MSM was telling me.
I can only hope you're right. These seem like rather dark days, in all of the Americas.
Of course,the Smithsonian Magazine just came out with an issue that covers Chile and Bachelet, fawning over her.
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Did you get this from the department of redundancy department?
/leg pulling
So are you suggesting that the time is ripe for another blood military putsch and 17 more years of a Pinochet wannabe?
Q) --how many Castroites died during the Pinochet years?
A)--not nearly enough--
Only if she acts on her plans "to take up arms for her beliefs" from her flower child days as a guest of the Staatssicherheit.
Don't have much use for democracy, do you?
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