Sunday, December 10, 2006

The population of Hell is swelling, Augusto Pinochet edition

Well, if there is a Hell, another cankerous soul is knocking at its gates.

General Pinochet seized power on Sept. 11, 1973, in a bloody military coup that toppled the Marxist government of President Salvador Allende. He then led the country into an era of robust economic growth. But during his rule, more than 3,200 people were executed or disappeared, and scores of thousands more were detained and tortured or exiled.


Oh yeah, he's also the hero of those who would privatize Social Security.

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