Augusto Pinochet

Who was this man? What did he do for his country?

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he saved chile

you just answered the first question yourself

He was a traitor.

Brutus school backstabbing.

I think someone needs a helicopter ride...

A pseudo-fascist with a fetish for helicopters and free markets.
Chile's economy became the largest in South America under him, if I'm not mistaken.

>am*rican "education"

Why do you guys only elect commies and socialists now?

After him actually, what he did was to develop the police state, that was the perfect circumstances for late XXth century neoliberalism.

>Spanish Education

He and other 3 military generals saved Chile from marxism.

The left "conmemorates" this day destroying buildings, burning stuff in the streets and robbing stores.

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What about these people?

Unlike Bush’s war on terror in which US troops are fighting abroad, Pinochet was confronted with an indigenous terrorist movement. Chilean terrorists engaged in assassinations and bombings of public infrastructure. Pinochet was able to put down real terrorist movements with less damage to Chile’s civil liberties than Bush’s trumped-up "war on terror" has caused to America’s.

According to the Rettig Commission, Chile’s struggle with terrorism resulted in 2300 (both sides) dead and missing. Pinochet’s detainees number less than Bush’s, and the torture used against Chilean terrorist suspects was perhaps less draconian than that used by the United States against suspected Muslim terrorists. The Bush regime is responsible for many multiples of the deaths for which the Pinochet regime was responsible. Yet, Pinochet is the demonized figure.

The propaganda against Pinochet has fantastic elements, such as "eyewitness" accounts of bodies of slain innocents thrown overboard from navy ships on the Mapocho river that runs through Santiago. Anyone who has seen the "river" knows it is not navigable.

The international left loved Salvador Allende’s socialist rhetoric and his policies against "the rich," policies that destroyed Chile’s economy and led to public agitation for his overthrow. The left hates Pinochet for overthrowing Allende and for turning Chile’s economy over to economists educated at Harvard and the University of Chicago, who privatized Chile’s social security system and put in place the institutional basis for Chile’s successful market economy. These are the real reasons for Pinochet’s demonization.

The international left cannot make up its mind whether Allende was overthrown by Pinochet or by the CIA. In some accounts the reason to hate Pinochet is that he is the puppet of capitalist Amerika. Why then demonize the puppet instead of the puppet-master?

In truth, Allende overthrew himself. He disregarded the constitution, permitted private property to be seized by communist organizations, tolerated and assisted the formation of armed groups that operated independently of the government, and disorganized the economy to the extent that there were food shortages.

In left-wing mythology, "the popularly-elected Allende" was overthrown by the tyrant Pinochet. This is far from the truth. Allende received only 36% of the vote and was appointed president by the Chilean congress after Allende swore an oath to respect the constitution.

Three years later on August 22, 1973, the Chilean congress censured Allende for violating law and the constitution in order to "establish a totalitarian system absolutely opposed to the representative system of government established by the Constitution."

Allende was censured for "making violation of the Constitution and the law a permanent system of conduct" and for "systematically trampling the powers of the other branches of government" while at the same time "violating the civil rights of the citizens guaranteed in the Constitution and permitting and stimulating the formation of illegal parallel powers which constitute a grave threat for the nation."

Allende was censured for systematically violating private property rights and illegally taking over 1,500 farms from their owners and hundreds of businesses. The resolution condemned Allende for aiding and abetting the establishment of illegal armed groups that "intend to replace legitimately constituted powers and serve as a base for the dictatorship of the proletariat." The resolution noted that this goal was publicly acknowledged by Allende himself.

The censure of Allende called upon the military to intervene and oust the Allende government. Housewives, unable to find food for their families, had been calling for military intervention for months. When the women would encounter military officers in the streets, they would throw corn kernels at their feet and cluck like chickens.

The military had to be forced to act by the elected representatives of the people. The irony is that Allende would likely have been pushed aside by the parallel government that he was allowing communists to create.

Pinochet is demonized despite the fact that he established a broad-based commission to create a new constitution and scheduled elections to return the government to civil authority. To achieve reconciliation among Chileans, both terrorists and the military government were amnestied. Pinochet permitted himself to be voted out of power.

The military government kept the amnesty, but successor governments did not. In his old age Pinochet was harassed by vengeful leftists determined to overturn the amnesty only with regard to Pinochet. That fact alone is testimony to which side of the conflict represented true character and a spirit of good will.

Today government corruption is on the rise in Chile as power-seeking politicians seek to remove constitutional restraints and to create economic dependencies that expand political power. It remains to be seen if the legacy of freedom that Pinochet gave to Chile will survive or whether it will succumb to the power of propaganda, just as America’s freedom is succumbing to neoconservative propaganda about the need for a police state to protect Americans from terrorism.

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>Who was this man?
Mi general

Helicopter passengers

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He didn't threw criminals from the side of boats to the Mapocho, he just throw them out of bridges.

Does this scare you?

>this is what amerifats actually believe

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>source is literally a white supremacist, """"anarcho"""" capitalist conspiracy theorist

You look besides the boogeyman eventually and realize that communists are a minimal fraction of society, but repression of freedom affects us all.

I notice you don't call a single fact or argument into question. Argumentum ad hominem. Even that is a fallacy since the author is not a white supremacist. He is no mere "conspiracy theorist" whatever you want to make that mean, he was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy under President Reagan in 1981.

he fought the communist virus

we are guilt tripped by the left, though it has been losing is effectiveness.

Piñera was already president and we ended full of haitians.

when piñera was the president the immigration was barely problematic. also the immigration laws were fucked up already, their biggest concern was searching for "subversives" , but this problem exploded with bachelet and she's happy with it.

He was nothing like Fascism. Fascism is about secluding your nation from the outside world and Pinochet gave away his nation's economy to the US. He was basically a US puppet like the RoK.

He saved Chile from gommunism.

Inmigration exploded under Piñera's neoliberalism and you didn't noticed cause most of them arrived in the north first and then poured to Santiago.

nigger pls, i lived in antofagasta in 2014, im only hating on poor immigrants and criminals, the only ones whose sole contribution its criminal activities and fucking up the job market for the low class and middle low class, haitians and colombians,