blogging it real

So they laid that blood-lusting bugger Pinochet to rest the other day. You know they say that in death and in fortune a virtuous man can be made of a rat. I say nuts to that!

Here's Chile. Beautiful land that it is. Heaps of wine and Salmon. Nice fresh air in the country. It has the only direct connect flight between New Zealand and Latin America. Bravo. They have one of the few female presidents to grace the Americas. And one who stood against the 1973 coup. As a result she was not only captured but tortured by Pinochet's cronnies.

So one would think that Chile would be a place where justice can finally arrive. I mean with a formerly tortured activist president, (and a direct flight to Auckland) how could justice and goodwill not possibly come to Chile? I'm sure that most of us were expecting a positive change here.

But, what happened this week? The current military burried Pinochet with full military honours and colours. This is the guy who blew out the democratically elected government of Dr. Salvador Allende; who made thousands of Chileans (students a lot of them) disappear; who sold off every social kernal of Chilean society to the private sector; who, while doing a roaring business with the United States, refused to allow elections, and who organized the torture of the current president.

My gawd? This guy should have been strung for war crimes years back. Instead, Saddam Hussien will take the stage. So there you go. Ruthless dictatorship, disapearances, despising of democracy and justice, receives punishment with a military parade colour guard and all.

That's it. I'm heading to Santiago de Chile with tear gas in hand to set shit strait!

¡Venceremos!