You remember correctly, hifiguy. These people also tossed families from helicopters into the ocean. Condoned rape, electric shock, and other unspeakable cruelties as torture -- all in the name of fighting the spread of "Democratic Socialism."
This history is what we can expect for our future, my Friend.
INFAMOUS EX-DINA AGENT OSVALDO ROMO DIES IN JAIL
(July 5, 2007) One of the most notorious Pinochet-era secret police (DINA) agents, Osvaldo Romo Mena, died in jail Wednesday morning. He was serving time for two human rights violations, although he was linked to the disappearance of more than 80 people during the military dictatorship.
“Savage” and “cruel” are the words that can best be used to describe Romo. A proponent of torture, Romo inflicted pain on hundreds of political prisoners between 1973 and 1975, some of the bloodiest days of Chile’s military dictatorship. He is connected to the torture, death, and eventual dumping of Lumi Videla’s body at the Italian embassy. Additionally, Judge Alejandro Solis implicated Romo in the 1974 disappearance of former MIR militant Jacqueline Binfa. (ST, May 15)
Jacqueline Binfa was detained on August 27, 1974 by DINA agents and bounced around clandestine detention facilities including the Cuatro Alamos and Jose Domingo Cañas centers. She was eventually tortured and “disappeared.” At the time of her detention, Binfa was 28 years old and single, and studied social work at the Universidad de Chile. Her mother, Julia Contreras, died in 1982 without ever knowing her daughter’s fate (ST, May 15).
With help from the DINA, Romo left Chile for Brazil in 1975. Brazilian authorities extradited him back to Chile in 1992 in connection with the disappearance of Alfonso Chanfreau. He was then incarcerated in the Santiago Penitentiary.
Even after his apprehension, Romo staunchly defended his actions. In a 1995 interview with a Miami television station, Romo was asked, in retrospect, if he would have repeated his actions with the DINA. He responded coldly, “I would have done the same thing, or perhaps even worse. I would not let one of those bastards live. I would have sent everyone to jail! This was one of the DINA’s most crucial errors, and I tried to convince my general of something until the very last minute: do not allow these people to live.”
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via Judi Lynn:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2904138
BTW: That fear of successful "Democratic Socialism" as practiced in Allende's Chile -- and the Nordic countries -- was what
Lewis Powell and the US Chamber of Commerce so feared, they got the Fat Cats to buy the networks and what-all.
These people are practicing this crap in the Homeland, during the wealthiest times in human history. I live in Detroit, where one can see an old woman pushing a shopping basket piled with plastic bags holding all her treasures and up the road three miles see an Audi R8 driven by an 18-year old.
Thank you for grokking what's going on, hifiguy.
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