CHILE: Miracleman Pinochet
Ronald Hilton - 8/1/03
Carlos Lopez from Chile writes:"David Pike forgot one of the most important achievement of Pinochet: PEACE!
During his tenure the country faced an explosive situation with Perú which was defused though diplomatic
means, alhough the heaviest concentration of troops in Chilean history was deployed to Antofagasta in
1976. Also his meeting with Hugo Banzer at Charaña in 1975 which defused the situation with Bolivia. Add
to this, the solution of the Beagle Channel conflict and you find the man who managed to keep Chile out of
war, a situation that few countries in the world enjoy: 120 years without a war! Carmen Negrin has either
not been to Chile or Cuba or
maybe even neither.The question to future Chileans historians is: was the enormous progress achieved
worth the violations of human rights?" RH: Carmen Negrín is married to a Chilean.
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