Augusto Pinochet–The Dictator’s Shadow

Augusto Pinochet–The Dictator’s Shadow

 

By: Heraldo Munoz

 

GENERAL AUGUSTO PINOCHET IS ONE of the world’s most recognizable Latin American political figures. Whether Chileans like it or not, the name of their former dictator is remembered from Asia and Africa to the Americas and Europe, by taxi drivers, ambassadors, salesmen, and presidents. Pinochet is in a class with Francisco Franco, Joseph Stalin, Ferdinand Marcos, and the Shah of Iran. The dictator’s name did not recede into obscurity with his death in December 2006. In October 2007, about a hundred students who staged a demonstration at Tehran University against President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, demanding the release of detained fellow students, chanted, “Ahmadinejad is Pinochet. Iran will not become Chile!”. [download]

 

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