Expect to see a daily “right wing devil” story until at least the mid-term elections.
Pinochet stepped down when he felt the threat of communism had passed, and allowed elections. The subsequent attempts to prosecute him despite the immunity arrangements should serve as a warning for similar heroes who save their countries from the Red Terror. When he initially stepped down he was hailed for modernizing Chile’s economy (especially in contrast to the quagmires caused by left-wing South American governments); there were enough Americans back then who could appreciate his aid in containing communism in the “southern cone” of South America. Margaret Thatcher fondly remembered him at the time of his death; he helped in the Falklands War by tying down Argentina’s best units along the Chilean border (leaving raw recruits to face the British).
In one generation the good he did will be removed from the public consciousness; do your part to pass on the legacies of those allies of ours during the Cold War who were sunsequently demonized by the leftist government/media cabal in the US (Franco, Galtieri, Central American and Southeast Asian military governments). Today our young people wear T-shirts featuring Che “I’m too important to kill” Guevarra because they have no idea of the evil and murder the left spread in the days of yore...
Thank you, Pinochet was a hero and great man who saved his country.
Great post! History that needs to not die away.
I remember when Agosto Pinochet overthrew the commie Salvador Allende in 1973. I have admired him ever since not only for what he did for Chile, but also for the hateful evilness of his enemies here in the U.S.
Reading this story about “torture music”, I’m now inclined to think that Gen. Pinochet was not only a great man, but maybe just a way cool dude as well.
That’s like the store owners who drive away loitering gangbangers by blasting classical music at them.