Quote Originally Posted by Alexander the Pretty Good
To throw some gas-soaked grenades at the fire, did Pinochet benefit his country? Sure, he was an oppressive dictator, but he brought prosperity to his nation. Sounds a lot like some patrons here have described Saddam - that he should have been left in power because he could hold Iraq together. Was he better than the alternative - a leftist government backed by the Soviet Union that would have turned Chile into another tin-pot "worker's paradise"?
one dictatorship isn´t better than another......be it right wing or left wing....in the end it´s the people that suffer.