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Chilean judge closes case into the origin of Pinochet millions
Chilean court decided on Monday not to charge any of late Dictator Augusto Pinochet's family members in a long-running investigation into the origin of the general's fortune and his suspected embezzlement of public funds. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesI always thought that General Frei of the FACH was a far better man than Pinochet. Pinochet had sticky fingers worthy of a country to the north-west of India.
Aug 06th, 2013 - 05:19 am - Link - Report abuse 017 million of unknown origin...
Aug 06th, 2013 - 06:00 am - Link - Report abuse 0I suppose the old geezer just couldn't help himself, or maybe it was the price he thought fair for saving Chile from Communism. Freedom ain't free I guess.
17 million of unknown origin vs how much dirty hundreds of CFK millions of known origin and Argentine Justice doing nothing about it?
Aug 06th, 2013 - 06:31 am - Link - Report abuse 0Worlds appart...
17 million ... a bargain!
Aug 06th, 2013 - 09:15 am - Link - Report abuse 013 years too late and 21 million short.
Aug 06th, 2013 - 11:05 am - Link - Report abuse 0(2) The Chilean perspective, (3) ManRod & (4) Condorito
Aug 06th, 2013 - 12:17 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Dress it as much as you want...
He was just a common thief...
Nothing more than a thief...
Nothing less than a thief...
Confirmed. Chilean justice always support state terrorism in his country, supported by United Kingdom and the United States. . Protects especially as Pinochet genocidal dirgente class of civilian and military.
Aug 06th, 2013 - 12:20 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Shame to José Miguel Carrera and Bernardo O'Higgins
US$ 17M of unknown origin.......Mmmmm....how much of known origin has the Concertacion coalition robbed from the fiscal funds during its 20 years term at the office in Chile...???
Aug 06th, 2013 - 12:25 pm - Link - Report abuse 03.000 died person because the almost internal civil war on 1973 was really a liberation war that allowed the country to take a very different path to be a vigorous growing country, the envy of a lot of LA región and an example to follow for the remaining ones.....and mainly a dangerous example for the statized leftist countries like Cuba.....And, this number contain the military casualties that weren´t small, tought....
In the event of Mr. Pinochet took this millions from the fiscal funds, this cost would be a trinket compared with the benefit his actions has meant for the brilliant future we have now, specially the last 4 years with a true Gvt.
Now, if we compare that amount with those we know every day through the media that politicians from all the LA (and the rest of the world too) are hidding as pocket money we can said that Mr. Pinochet was a true Spartan Governor who spent insignificant money or received mínimum bribes from internal or external lobbies.
From the side where you look at this issue you can get that the media press that has suffered the people that supported the military Gvt. has been too excesive to the extreme that even the US took measures against us considering they helped to the Chilean Armed Forces to liberate the country. The reason is that the media has been manipulated from long time ago by the leftist parties all over the world as a weapon to win the war against the democratic countries....
@9 Sergio Vega:
Aug 06th, 2013 - 12:38 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Yes, a true savior no doubt. And a cheap one too, if we use your interpretation. But still a common thief.
A thief steals. If he stole it, from whom did he steal it?
Aug 06th, 2013 - 02:43 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Anonymous donors chose to support the General and there is nothing wrong with that. When he came in “empty handed” Chilean GDP was $10B, when he left GDP was $80B ... an increase of 700% !!!
If $17 million got you a Pinochet, half the countries in the world would be placing their orders right now.
Raul:
“supported by United Kingdom and the United States”
You do know that Brazil was a major donor to the Pinochet fund, right?
Dear hermanitos Shilenos
Aug 06th, 2013 - 05:50 pm - Link - Report abuse 0This is NOT the end of the story......, just the begining.....
Those 21 million were just the American “Top of the Iceberg”....
Sooner or later, the big chunk hidden in England willhave to emerge...
For the less informed of you......, here is some old lead material in English...
Enjoy....
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/pinochets-lost-millions-the-uk-connection-1776180.html
There lies Pinochet.
Aug 06th, 2013 - 05:59 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Murderer.
Common thief.
@10 condorito.....
Aug 06th, 2013 - 07:42 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I'm sure the Egyptians would love to place an order. If Pinochets were up for auction on eBay the price would surely be at least 1.7 billion. The old geezer believed in tough love, but who can argue with the results.
TWIMC
Aug 07th, 2013 - 01:12 am - Link - Report abuse 0The current positive Chilean* reality has been achieved by ALL Chileans**…
It wasn’t achieved because of some honour-less criminal…
It has been achieved DESPITE of him…
* Replace with “German” if necessary for grasping the above concept.
** Replace with Germans if necessary for grasping the above concept…..
** Except the deluded 5% who would have us go back to the pre-Pinochet chaos and poverty.
Aug 07th, 2013 - 09:15 am - Link - Report abuse 0Technically, same could be said about the following leaders and it would be right:
Aug 07th, 2013 - 04:35 pm - Link - Report abuse 0There lies Che Guevara
Murderer.
Common thief.
There lies Napoleon
Murderer.
Common Thief.
There lies Simon Bolivar
Murderer.
Common thief.
There lies San Martin
Murderer.
Common thief.
There is gonna Castro lie.
Murderer.
Common thief.
... and then came Fidel...
Aug 07th, 2013 - 05:00 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Party is over, the comandante arrived and ordered to stop...
;)
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Aug 07th, 2013 - 08:21 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@13 The Chilean perspective
Aug 08th, 2013 - 09:19 am - Link - Report abuse 0Spain would be pushing the bid price higher too.
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Aug 08th, 2013 - 11:35 am - Link - Report abuse 0@20 Think
Aug 08th, 2013 - 01:26 pm - Link - Report abuse 0And luckily for Pablo he has been re-born, free in post-Pinochet Chile and not imprisoned in Cuba-of-the-Andes.
(21) Condorito
Aug 08th, 2013 - 02:31 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You tell that to Pablo.....
He will surely appreciate the profound hindsight of your words.....
@22 Think
Aug 08th, 2013 - 04:27 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I am sure he already knows it.
TWIMC
Aug 09th, 2013 - 12:11 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The removal of my posts (18) & (20) is clear evidence that there are quite a few of my hermanitos Shilenos that don't want to know....:-)
That is weird indeed Think, how come your posts were removed?
Aug 09th, 2013 - 07:38 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Can it be that informing about the appearance of one niño desaparecido is considered “foul language”?
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Aug 09th, 2013 - 08:03 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The removal of your posts (18) & (20) is clear evidence that you can't read simple instructions.
How weird indeed Stevie.
You want Think to rename him and give the man a more English sounding name? How about... George? Perhaps renaming the grandmothers of the May Square into just that?
Aug 10th, 2013 - 06:57 am - Link - Report abuse 0Excuses, nothing but excuses...
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