On AlterNet: pinochet

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Naomi Klein: How Socialism Protected Chileans from Earthquake Fall-out

Naomi Klein, The Nation. March 4, 2010.

Wall Street Journal columnist makes an attempt to rewrite history that Chile's "free-market" dictator Augusto Pinochet can be thanked for preventing destruction there.

Gen. Petraeus Denies U.S. Torture; Meanwhile Pinochet Judge Launches Criminal Probe of Bush Attorneys

Liliana Segura, AlterNet. March 30, 2009.

The six targets named include former Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez, who could face "immediate arrest" upon entering Spain.

Latin America Reflects on the Other 9/11

Daniel Denvir, AlterNet. September 11, 2008.

Can we create a world in which no one has to suffer through burning buildings or torture chambers?

A New Documentary Draws Stark Parallels Between Chile Under Pinochet and the Post-9/11 "War on Terror"

Sophia A. McClennen, AlterNet. May 17, 2008.

A Promise to the Dead: The Exile Journey of Ariel Dorfman is an indictment of torture and a powerful study of individual and collective memory.

Pinochet and Saddam -- the Ironies

Barry Lando, December 11, 2006.

Barry Lando: The two dictators have one major thing in common -- support from the U.S.