El Opinador Compulsivo

Chau Pinochet. Esta noche se toma champagne en casa. Mientras tanto, otra botella va a la heladera. Voy a dejar notas de lo que dijeron algunos diarios aquí para hacer la comparación cuando el otro monstruo pase de largo. Estoy seguro que Fidel va a recibir un adiós más generoso, esto a pesar de que además de opresión, sangre, tiranía (puntos en común con el detestable dictador chileno) dejará un país en la absoluta ruina (no se puede decir lo mismo de Chile). En fin, así es la política, más sentimiento que razón.

L.A. Times: Iconic dictator led '73 Chilean coup

Backed by the U.S., his military regime killed and tortured thousands.

By Sebastian Rotella and Patrick J. McDonnell, Times Staff Writers
December 11, 2006

SANTIAGO, CHILE — Augusto Pinochet, the embodiment of the brutal and intensely anti-communist South American military dictator, died Sunday, a military doctor said. He was 91 and had suffered a heart attack a week earlier.

N.Y. Times: Augusto Pinochet, Dictator Who Ruled by Terror in Chile, Dies at 91

By JONATHAN KANDELL

Published: December 11, 2006

Gen. Augusto Pinochet Ugarte, the brutal dictator who repressed and reshaped Chile for nearly two decades and became a notorious symbol of human rights abuse and corruption, died yesterday at the Military Hospital of Santiago. He was 91.

Washington Post: A Chilean Dictator's Dark Legacy Washington Post Foreign Service
Monday, December 11, 2006

Gen. Augusto Pinochet, 91, the former Chilean dictator whose government murdered and tortured thousands during his repressive 17-year rule, died yesterday at a Santiago military hospital of complications from a heart attack, leaving incomplete numerous court cases that had sought to bring him to justice.