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[certom]

Just a short politic digression: Augusto Pinochet has died today due to health complications after he was recovered for a coronary.
I'm simply indifferent to his death, but not to all that his dictatorship has brought to Chile. South America is now in a new era, i hope this will go on for a long time.




mmm this could become a very intellectual and serious topic!![/code]

[darwin dali]

'bout time this old creep kicked the can.

[Irv the Swerve]

I'm amazed that he lived till 91. I suppose what he did through is time as leader was very disgusting and no one who suffered will get justice but still, its sad that someone dies, even if is him.

[darwin dali]

Ask the common people of Chile (not the upper crust) how sad they are about his death. No, this mofo's death is a good thing, nothing sad about it. Ranks right up there with Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot, Idi Amin and the likes.

[R00DIT]

i agree, sad his victims couldn't live to see their 91st birthday.

[darwin dali]

Swiss editorialists showed little sympathy in their columns in Monday's newspapers.

The Geneva newspaper Le Temps headlined its main story: The unpunished dictator.

"Pinochet will remain in history a particularly hideous figure. During his long reign as head of Chile, he imposed a regime of terror which resulted notably with the death or disappearance of 3,000 people," it commented.

Although he died a free man, the Tribune de Genève said he was nonetheless defeated.

"These past years, he lived hounded by justice for corruption or human rights abuses. And everywhere in Latin America, dictatorship has given way to democracy."

Zurich's Tages-Anzeiger commented that the majority of Chileans would be relieved by Pinochet's death.

"Without him, they hope that it will be easier to come to terms both judicially and morally with the dark years of Chile's military dictatorship. And with that to lay the foundation for a later reconciliation."