NationStates Jolt Archive


Ex-Chilean leader "was murdered"

Congo--Kinshasa
23-01-2007, 01:15
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6289209.stm

It seems that former President Frei (d. 1982) can be added to the body count of those murdered by the Pinochet regime. :(
Infinite Revolution
23-01-2007, 01:22
i bet it was his girlfriend Maggy T. with her handbag of doom.
Free Soviets
23-01-2007, 01:23
"you can't make an omelet without...torturing and murdering a few people"
- milton friedman, noted libertarian
Relyc
23-01-2007, 01:23
I wish I could say Im suprised, but I'm not. Suspecting Pinochet of foul play is like suspecting babies of being needy.
Congo--Kinshasa
23-01-2007, 01:44
"you can't make an omelet without...torturing and murdering a few people"
- milton friedman, noted libertarian

For a "libertarian," Friedman sure did have a high affinity for some dictatorships. IIRC, he supported apartheid South Africa, as well, in the name of "anticommunism."