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One-third of Chileans okay with Pinochet overthrowing Allende
Over 30 % of Chile's population still approves of General Augusto Pinochet staging a military coup d'état nearly half a century ago to topple Socialist President Salvador Allende, according to a study by Market Opinion Research International (MORI) released in Santiago this week. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesI don't find that surprising. I lived and worked in Chile during the dictatorship and while the majority of Chilenos were opposed to the rulers, most also acknowledged the benefits of a recovered economy and the imposition of law and order. Even in the extreme South, a traditional left leaning province, while telling rather naughty jokes about Augustos' chief of police, the locals were glad to have steady work again. I traveled the length of the great nation on days off and found it exceptionally safe. This, after my company car was broken into and a bunch valuables stolen. The carabineros went to extraordinary lengths to follow up on this property crime; much more thorough than any other place I was ever at. Nightlife in Santiago and Valparaiso was vibrant and people milled about late at night laden with heavy wrist watches and jewelry. I was glad to see Pinochet and his cronies leave and I don't wish that sort of 'solution' on any people; Venezuela, Brazil and Argentina come foremost to mind. Yet, among the more right leaning opposition, exactly the Chilean example lends credence to their anti-democracy sentiments. Reformists need to keep this in mind: 'Don't throw out the baby with the bath water.'
Jun 01st, 2023 - 11:17 am - Link - Report abuse +3And I don't find it surprising that the Anglo above doesn't find that surprising...
Jun 01st, 2023 - 07:15 pm - Link - Report abuse -1- I currently reside in Italy..., and I don't find it surprising that..., still today... more than one-third of Italians are okay with the god..., auld Benito Mussolini era...
- I have resided in Spain..., and I don't find it surprising that..., still today..., more than one-third of Spaniards are okay with the good, auld Francisco Franco era...
- I have criss-crossed the USA several times and I don't find it surprising that..., still today..., more than one-third of North-Americans are okay with the good, auld John Parker era... when any honest white man could lynch any indian..., negroe..., italian..., mexican or whatever, that “deserved” it...
The list is muuuuch longer..., but even a turnip can get my drift..
Capisce...?
Señor THINK
Jun 01st, 2023 - 07:47 pm - Link - Report abuse 0With all due respect to Chile, thank God that the Pinochet government saved our country from Marxism.
¡Viva Chile!
With all due respect for humanity,,, hermanito...
Jun 01st, 2023 - 08:13 pm - Link - Report abuse -1Same applies for Franco..., Mussolini..., Hitler..., Hiroito... or Idi Amin...
I must though admit..., that Pinocchio had..., by far..., the coolest sunglasses...
https://iconicphotos.files.wordpress.com/2018/02/pinochetjunta.jpg?w=796&h=1190
Enjoy...
Say what you will, but the Pinochet government saved my family from financial ruin.
Jun 01st, 2023 - 08:54 pm - Link - Report abuse +1Hermanito...
Jun 01st, 2023 - 09:07 pm - Link - Report abuse -1I don't doubt for a second that the Pinochet government saved your family from financial ruin....
But I neither doubt for a second that the Pinochet government saved many a Shilean familiy from a long life with their loved ones...
Capisce...?
Hummm, no mention of:
Jun 01st, 2023 - 11:02 pm - Link - Report abuse 0-residing in Argie occupied Puelmapu, where probably more than two thirds (at least) of the implanted population are ‘okay with the good auld’ Roca era and the philosophy of :
‘Our self-respect as a virile people obliges us to put down as soon as possible, by reason or by force, this handful of savages who destroy our wealth and prevent us from definitely occupying, in the name of law, progress and our own security, the richest and most fertile lands of the Republic.’
— Julio Argentino Roca.
And the list is muuuuch longer in Argentina, but no mention of any of that.
Oh no.
Panguipulli..., hermanito...
Jun 02nd, 2023 - 06:09 am - Link - Report abuse 0I Tænk your Anglo compadre above..., “Skippy II” is in dear need of some human interaction...
Be compassionate with him..., throw him a bone...
Do it for the sake of his ahijada ;-)...
https://journals.openedition.org/artelogie/docannexe/image/5208/img-1.jpg
Capisce...?
Senor Taenk, i have read your posts on threads from different countries, are childish insults all you have to offer ?, you are not representing Argentina in a positive way,
Jun 02nd, 2023 - 07:35 am - Link - Report abuse 0TWIMC...
Jun 02nd, 2023 - 08:50 am - Link - Report abuse -1- I'll bet them 6€ & 40 cents coins..., currently in me trousers watch pocket..., that the above “Esteban Domingo Fernandez” is one of those very rare “Esteban Domingo Fernandez'es” in this world that doesn't “Espeak Eny Espanish”...
(He can't not even spell no “señor” right..., no señorito... ;-)))))))))
Stinka Winka
Jun 02nd, 2023 - 03:04 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Ahhh, last comment upset you did it? Good, good, they do say the truth hurts.
You’ll get over it I’m sure, ready for next time, eh.
You always react to comments about Roca, must be some sort of hero of yours.
Not just ‘‘okay with the good auld’ Roca era’, but wanting to extend it into today and to the British S. Atlantic/Antarctic territories.
That’s why MP is soooooo necessary.
Not dealing with a ‘handful of savages’ now.
Capishhhhh…
THINK
Jun 02nd, 2023 - 03:50 pm - Link - Report abuse -1Again I thank you for reminding our viewers about the harsh treatment of our earliest immigration arrivals to savage land.
The savages continue the current ruckus today!
No need to thank me..., hermanito...
Jun 02nd, 2023 - 05:42 pm - Link - Report abuse 0But maybe you should inform your “compadre” that about 95% of the ~2.000.000 Mapuches currently living in Wallmapu..., are doing so in current Shilean territory...
Arming that First Nation..., as you compadre advocates for..., could get his ahijada in a similar situation as the girl in tha picture...
Unless..., of course..., they made an “Ukrainian Ttype” of gentlemen agreement with the Mapuches..., so them guns only may be used against us Argies...
Speaking about Ukraine..., do you know when the FACH has planned to donate its 46 F16's to them ...?
You are a very silly man Taenk, does your wife ever let you out ?
Jun 02nd, 2023 - 05:51 pm - Link - Report abuse 0DON ESTEBAN
Jun 02nd, 2023 - 06:44 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Actually THINK was wise to slip unbound from marriage...
THINK
By the way, many of those mixed breed Mapuche savage gentlemen now enjoy employment at our farm...
¡SALUDOS de CHILE!
Wow, Stink said Wallmapu, that is a first, next is an apology and reparations, but Wallmapu is a start.
Jun 03rd, 2023 - 12:01 am - Link - Report abuse 0Yeah!!!
However, specifically we are talking about Puelmapu here and the idea of ‘an “Ukrainian Ttype” of gentlemen agreement with the Mapuches..., so them guns (missiles) only may be used against us Argies...’.
Has merit.
Hermanito del Valle del Aconcagua...
Jun 03rd, 2023 - 07:52 am - Link - Report abuse 0You say...:
- “By the way, many of those mixed breed Mapuche savage gentlemen now enjoy employment at our farm...”
I say...:
- Very nice of you paying back the Mapuche first nation generosity..., by hiring some of Elisa Bravo's crossbreed descendants...
- After all..., as the picture below clearly shows..., the toki gave that pale, languid female everything a woman could ever wish... ;-)
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b4/Monvoisin%2C_Raymond_-_Elisa_Bravo_Jaramillo_-f01.2.jpg
Saludos....
As I've always said, our family our cross-bred band of gypsys reflect our suspect heritage.
Jun 03rd, 2023 - 01:30 pm - Link - Report abuse 0After all, our primary residence is an old adobe farmhouse.
¡Saludos!
You better keep a good eye on them vinchucas then...
Jun 03rd, 2023 - 02:50 pm - Link - Report abuse 0A constant fumigation of the premises is required.
Jun 03rd, 2023 - 04:30 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Such is a part of living in the countryside. As is the vagabond gypsy lifestyle of changing our location. Soon we'll be in the snow at 3000 Mt.
Goood...
Jun 03rd, 2023 - 04:36 pm - Link - Report abuse 0We don't want Nahuelito/a getting trypanosomated as poor auld Charles..., right...?
Mixed-blood married children are always preferable to our gypsy clan.
Jun 03rd, 2023 - 07:52 pm - Link - Report abuse 0We now alwait for the anticipation of a major snow storm.
Si Dios quiere y el Niño lo permite...
Jun 03rd, 2023 - 08:12 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Always a gamble praying for snow, but the Americans have had an incredible Winter.
Jun 03rd, 2023 - 08:42 pm - Link - Report abuse 0¡Saludos!
Always a gamble praying for snow..., indeed...
Jun 05th, 2023 - 06:20 pm - Link - Report abuse 0https://www.j2ski.com/snow_forecast/Chile/Valle_Nevado_snow.html
(Maybe worth trying to direct ones prayers to a more local God than the Americans...?)
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