Comments on: Why Chileans Are Still Fighting Over Pinochet http://www.theworld.org/2012/06/why-chileans-are-still-fighting-over-pinochet/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=why-chileans-are-still-fighting-over-pinochet Global Perspectives for an American Audience Tue, 12 Feb 2013 14:49:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: rlitycheq http://www.theworld.org/2012/06/why-chileans-are-still-fighting-over-pinochet/comment-page-1/#comment-24769 rlitycheq Mon, 11 Jun 2012 19:53:00 +0000 http://www.theworld.org/?p=124356#comment-24769 Not even a mention in passing of the role the US played in enabling the violent military coup against democratically elected president Allende and the United States very own class A war criminal Henry Kissinger's complicity in the atrocities committed by the Pinochet dictatorship. Shame on you Alex Gallafent and PRI's The World. Not even a mention in passing of the role the US played in enabling the violent military coup against democratically elected president Allende and the United States very own class A war criminal Henry Kissinger’s complicity in the atrocities committed by the Pinochet dictatorship.

Shame on you Alex Gallafent and PRI’s The World.

]]> By: Pau Brujo http://www.theworld.org/2012/06/why-chileans-are-still-fighting-over-pinochet/comment-page-1/#comment-24761 Pau Brujo Mon, 11 Jun 2012 02:35:00 +0000 http://www.theworld.org/?p=124356#comment-24761 Those protesting the film are essentially pro-Communist elements, along with a smattering of anarchists, for whom the notion of "freedom of expression"  should be limited to only those on the Left who agree with their rather narrow and parochial view of issues.  Chile today is economically successful in large part due to the measures taken by the military regime to repair the bankruptcy of the country caused in less than three years by the Marxist Allende government.  As a result, Pinochet remains very popular with a large number of Chileans, and of course the Chilean Left must do all it can to prevent any sort of public expression of such popularity. Those protesting the film are essentially pro-Communist elements, along with a smattering of anarchists, for whom the notion of “freedom of expression”  should be limited to only those on the Left who agree with their rather narrow and parochial view of issues.  Chile today is economically successful in large part due to the measures taken by the military regime to repair the bankruptcy of the country caused in less than three years by the Marxist Allende government.  As a result, Pinochet remains very popular with a large number of Chileans, and of course the Chilean Left must do all it can to prevent any sort of public expression of such popularity.

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