pinochet

See Pinochet in Chile, the Shah in Iran (although the British had a big part in that too).

In 1982, during Britain’s Falklands War against Argentina, Pinochet helped Thatcher’s government with intelligence on Argentina.

Look a Chile; Nixon gave the orders and supplied to weapons and CIA support behind the coup that brought Pinochet into power.

Dicator Augusto Pinochet and their team designed the current constitution of Chile, who has so many issues that are now collapsing our society.

Chile is a wonderful country, generally very well run since Pinochet was deposed.

I think the Pinochet dictatorship expanded the UF to be used in financial transactions like mortgages.

I don't consider Pinochet a paragon of democracy, and I don't support neither illegal drone strikes, or illegal kill squads.

Is this the same Hayek who defended transitional dictatorship, and believed that the Pinochet government was a good example of the sort of dictatorship that would likely lead to a liberal government?

A film director who publicly supported Pinochet would be blacklisted forever, but we consider it a travesty that, for a few years in the 50's, Hollywood blacklisted people for supporting Stalin.

Now, while I actually lived under dictatorship, and did not enjoy it one bit, I must say, if I am forced to make a choice between Allende and Pinochet, I'll go for Pinochet every time.

The killing went on even after Pinochet and his military had a firm hold on power; it was just carried out with greater secrecy, in military barracks, in police buildings, and in the countryside.

I might be impressed by such sentiments if the Left had a fraction of the same attitude towards the 5 orders of magnitude greater number of people killed by the type of people Pinochet and company killed.

In Chile there's more of a pre-pinochet vs "grew up after pinochet" generation-- the divides are not the same as in the USA.

From Mossadeq to being in bed with Shaddam, the Taliban, Pinochet, Saudi Arabia, El Salvador "death squads", etc.

Isn't it a reasonable difference that a director who publicly support Pinochet would be "blacklisted" in that people would shun him and it would be unpopular to work with him?

Trying to excuse Pinochet's crimes "because Stalin" or "because Mao" is as bizarre as trying to pretend that Stalin or Mao were not mass murderers.

One could for instance have an oppressive leader who instituted free market economic policies, such as Pinochet.

In 1976, Pinochet’s intelligence agency planned and carried out a car bombing in Washington, D.

I'm sure you don't support every possible kind of government, including Pinochet's Chile and the Khmer Rouge.