Pinochet is dead.

Good riddance. Too bad he was never prosecuted for crimes against humanity, but it is some type of closure for Chile.
Aquí hay una lista en español de sus victimas (algunos, por lo menos): http://www.derechos.net/doc/pino/proceso.html

Things turned violent, which is a shame but not surprising. It´s been there under the surface for thirty years, and no one in Chile doesn´t have an opinion. The difference is that now they aren´t afraid to express it. I have to remind myself over and over to find that place in me that is different from him, because my first reaction was to say that they should have thrown him (alive) out af an airplane long ago, as he did to his opponents (and their families). But then, am I not as bad as he was?
Last year in Vermont, we saw this performance by a Rwandan dancer and musician who had watched his entire family as they were raped and executed. He talked about his process of forgiveness, and how he has forgiven the men who murdered his family. It´s something that I struggle a lot with (and I am a pretty forgiving person), and I am not sure that I can forgive that easily. I am angry with people like Pinochet because I saw the fear that he created in some of my friends, and the deep division that grew in Chile over this great, black abyss of thirty years. People are still scared to talk about it.

Okay, too much ugly stuff after a really great weekend. I have to work, but this is just so much more fulfilling... More later.
H