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Ryan McCaffrey’s December 13 op-ed, “The Wronging of a Dictator,” embodied an unforgivable flaw of the brutal dictator he eulogized, Augusto Pinochet: arrogance that attempts to excuse inhuman brutality in the name of ideological purity.
There is no small irony in McCaffrey’s comparison of President Salvador Allende to Fidel Castro, because it is Pinochet who will be remembered alongside the Cuban dictator. Throughout his apologetic treatise, McCaffrey argues that Augusto Pinochet should be absolved of his crimes because he committed them in...
Despite his demeanor, Ahmadinejad was in the midst of a tense week, in which he had welcomed delegates to a conference questioning the Nazi Holocaust, taken on students at Amir Khabir University who chanted "Death to the dictator!" and campaigned for candidates in Iranian municipal elections, including his sister, who...
On the eve of my departure from my semester abroad in Chile, Augusto Pinochet, the country’s ex-dictator, died. My host sister called it the best farewell the country could have given me.
In Chile, there is no such agreement what happened in the past, let alone what it means for the future. My host grandfather denies that Pinochet’s regime tortured anyone unjustly; his daughter likes to tell the tale of how her ex-husband was detained and tortured three...