Pinochet dead.

[audiopollution]

Good fucking riddance.

My ex's mother barely escaped with her life; only by the grace of a prison guard who knew her and snuck her out of the jail in the middle of the night, did she survive. That's what you got for being a teacher who told your students about life outside Chile. I suppose that's also what you get when one of your students is a stooge.

Regardless, I'm glad he's dead. I'm not so glad that it wasn't under the heels of the families whose lives he destroyed.

[Cake]

Good fucking riddance.
I'm with you on that.

[midwinter]

I was watching the news when it broke and when the CNN anchor said "Pinochet is dead," I said "Good." Although a friend of mine pointed out that it's too bad he didn't suffer more/longer.

[hardeeharhar]

Good riddance, indeed...

[dmz]

It's too bad he didn't take his ideas/methods with him.

[Powerdoc]

He won't pay for his crimes, but he was under many investigations the last times. The important point is that, Pinochet is less popular than ever everywhere.
He won't pay, but the history will do justice, to all the people he destroyed.

[sammi jo]

Good riddance, indeed...
Exactly so.

But, his death meant that justice was never done. Tens of thousands of living relatives of innocent folk who were tortured, murdered or simply disappeared, have never had the chance of even that (unsatisfactory) degree of closure.

Back in the 1990s, the British Government had the chance to bring this slimebag to justice, when the Spanish government was trying to extradite him ... but in its usual form, Tony Blair's weasel administration chickened out, like the political cowards they are. They let him go back home to Chile, under the pretence (or lie) that he was "mentally incapacitated and unable to stand trial". He spent the rest of his days in comfort, instead of the jail cell he should have been in.

Then we have the disgusting spectacle of former UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, who on one hand, blathered on about 'democracy and the rule of law"... and ridding the world of vicious dictators, (blah blah freakin' blah)... yet she was a close personal friend and supporter of this vicious scumball.

The most important question of all, of course, is how did someone like this manage to overthrow a democatically elected government, and get away with it?