Pinoshame Goes Unanswered

“Despite his human rights record, many Chileans loved him and said he saved the country from Marxism, and put the country onto a path of strong economic growth [more than 3000 people were killed or ‘disappeared’ in the course of his 17 year rule].

But many loyal supporters abandoned him after it became clear in 2004 that he had stolen about $27m in secret offshore bank accounts, the BBC's Daniel Schweimler says.”

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The phrasing of the aforementioned article in the BBC is yet another media effort, perhaps unwittingly, to demonise the Effectively Empathetic and Communitarian ideas and ideals of Marxism and Communism by presenting it as a scourge worthy of deliverance.

2.
Given the opposition to Marxism by the ‘many Chileans’ who thus supported Pinochet for delivering them from it, it is not surprising that such minds would deem his stealing $27m a bigger crime than his responsibility for the murder/disappearance of more than 3000 people.

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