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Hater Depot
Joined: 29 Mar 2005
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 Posted: Mon Dec 11, 2006 4:37 pm Post subject: Pinochet dead |
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Pinochet Leaves Uncomfortable Legacy
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I'll never forget the early-morning phone call I received on Feb. 25, 1982. I was working in Santiago, Chile, as the bureau chief for United Press International, and I had an interview scheduled that day with Tucapel Jim�nez, a labor union leader who a few days earlier had called on Chilean workers to form a united front to protest the economic policies of military President Augusto Pinochet. My interview, I was told, wouldn't be taking place: Jim�nez's body had been found a few hours earlier, shot five times in the head. His throat had also been slashed.
Those were the dark days of Pinochet's 17-year dictatorship, which ended after Chileans, in a 1989 referendum, finally demanded that he step down. Few tears were shed when he died on Dec. 10 in a Santiago military hospital.
During Pinochet's long rule, dissent was not tolerated and was often punishable by death. Only when Chile returned to civilian rule were the secret police agents who killed Jim�nez arrested and convicted for the crime.
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Yet, within three years of Jim�nez's death, the economic pain turned to gain. The economy started growing briskly, averaging 6.3% annual growth from 1985 to 1990 and turning in a stellar 9% leap in GDP in 1995. Per capita income has continued to rise on average 4.1% annually over the past 15 years, compared to just 1.1% for the rest of Latin America. |
And as we all know, economic gains make everything A-OK. |
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aarontendo
Joined: 08 Feb 2006
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| Posted: Mon Dec 11, 2006 5:05 pm Post subject: |
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| There's been a thread about him near the top of the CA forum and you start a new one? =( |
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Hater Depot
Joined: 29 Mar 2005
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| Posted: Mon Dec 11, 2006 10:01 pm Post subject: |
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| Oh. Apologies, I didn't see that one. |
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aarontendo
Joined: 08 Feb 2006
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| Posted: Mon Dec 11, 2006 10:12 pm Post subject: |
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| Nah you were supposed to tear me a new one for that! |
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Hollywoodaction
Joined: 02 Jul 2004
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| Posted: Mon Dec 11, 2006 11:13 pm Post subject: |
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I heard the doctors drove a stake through his heart just to make sure he really was dead.  |
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