Pinochet

If it can be called such, one of the benign legacies of the Pinochet years has been a succession of stable centre-left governments.

His death came just a couple weeks after Augusto Pinochet, Chile's 91-year-old former dictator, was also felled by a heart attack.

The regime did not collapse after a disastrous war as Argentina's did, or face threats of prosecution abroad like Chile's Augusto Pinochet.

MILTON FRIEDMAN: The intellectual elite, as it were, were on the side of Allende, not on the side of Pinochet.

There was also the emotional legacy of her family's persecution under Pinochet.

The last prominent leader before Mario Monti, Italy's new prime minister, to exercise power as an appointed senator was Augusto Pinochet.

As a result of his outspoken opposition to the Pinochet evil, Neruda's poetry was posthumously banned in Chile from 1974 until 1990.

Then-President Michelle Bachelet, whose father was tortured under Pinochet, refused to attend the ceremony.

He wants a political reform, partly to sweep away the electoral system of two-member constituencies bequeathed by Pinochet.

And he was criticized for dealing with the military government of Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet.

It kept the free-market economic policies adopted, with costly trial and error, by the dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet.

DOMINGO CAVALLO: The first democratic president after Pinochet maintained the reforms and also tried to improve on them.

DOMINGO C*ALLO: The first democratic president after Pinochet maintained the reforms and also tried to improve on them.

He points out that China forged warm relations with Chile during the dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet.

Although Pinochet died (in December 2006) before his trial began, the floodgates had been opened.

I interviewed Chile's imprisoned dictator General Pinochet last week , and take it from me , guys, this fella has a terrific laugh .

Pinochet is dead and the army is now impeccably professional.

Friedman told Pinochet that he needed to take decisive and immediate action to defeat inflation.

The rest of Pinochet' s tenure in Chile, however, is entirely another story.

NARRATOR: One of those who plotted the coup went to talk to Pinochet face to face.

The Pinochet story raises two uncomfortable questions for liberals.

From the Sha to Mubarak, from Saddam to Pinochet or Karzai, the USA is playing her puppets and paying them well in the process.

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Ironically, she temporarily worked from an office that once belonged to Pinochet.

This split has endured since a 1988 referendum that ended the dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet.

It's news that has rocked the streets of Chile--the death of Augusto Pinochet.

But in 1973, this world fell apart when the Pinochet regime seized power in a coup.

Above, mourners pay respects at Pinochet's wake.

He nearly had Chile's General Augusto Pinochet extradited from Britain to Spain to face charges of genocide in 1998.

Luyendijk says: "Mubarak is the new Pinochet. "

When Pinochet finally left office, some 40 per cent of Chileans lived below the poverty line; the proportion now is 12 or 13 per cent.

General Pinochet could be going home soon

Crosses bearing the names of people who disappeared during General Pinochet's rule