Comments on Chileno - Living in Santiago, Chile Travel Blog: 34 Years of Solitude

Hey Chileno, nice blog you have here. I'm interest...

2007-09-12T17:20:00.000-07:00

Hey Chileno, nice blog you have here. I'm interested in learning more about Chile, so I read your blog to see what's going on. Defanitly seems interesting.

Thanks dude, thats really helpful. I really couldn...

2007-09-12T14:13:00.000-07:00

Thanks dude, thats really helpful. I really couldn't believe it when he said 1000%

This is the best I can do on Chilean Inflation. I...

2007-09-12T12:26:00.000-07:00

This is the best I can do on Chilean Inflation. I'm really interested to know how your teacher comes up with 1000% ;-)

Hey, do you know what the current inflation rate o...

2007-09-12T12:09:00.000-07:00

Hey, do you know what the current inflation rate of Chile is at the moment? My economics teacher he thought it was over 1000% and I found that hard to believe.

Congratulations Skymaster, you're the 999th Xenoph...

2007-09-11T19:41:00.000-07:00

Congratulations Skymaster, you're the 999th Xenophobic Fascist on my blog, and so you'll be the first to be labeled with my new shorthand expression:

YAXFOMB

"Yet Another Xenophobic Fascist On My Blog"

Welcome!

Now I wouldn't be calling names but you started off by insulting my intelligence, and that of my readers, so all bets are off.

You begin by calling me surprisingly ignorant for not understanding Chile after "so many" years living here, and then you proceed to tell me that what Pinochet did or didn't do isn't my concern.

Only in Chile.

So I'm to conclude that my ignorance is both shameful and appropriate at the same time?

Moreover, the longer I'm here the less ignorant I'll become of the fact that ignorance is bliss. Because what Pinochet, as you say, "did or didn't do" is best left unexplored. Especially as a foreigner, I have no right to come here and lecture about individual rights. Because left up to Chile Pinochet's AMNESTY LAW would have taken care of murderers human rights abusers, no?

Yo, it was EUROPEANS who got human rights abusers charged in the first place, under "crimes against humanity", nulling the amnesty law and bringing the murderers and torturers that YOU ARE DEFENDING to justice.
>>>Ningún norteamericano tiene autoridad para venir a darnos clases de democracia y de respeto a los derechos individuales.

Translation:...no North American has the authority to come here and give us classes on democracy and respect for individual rights

Yo, fascist prick, ever heard of Frank Teruggi? He gringo. He dead. His friend Shephard Bliss obviously has no right to opine, even give testimony to Chilean judges: he's North American, after all.

Next up you tell me an "enormous percentage of Chileans" approved of the coup on 11-Sept, 1973.

Well I'll tell you something you sick-minded apologist for the electrocution of genitalia. You might not know your own history so well, or you might just be gambling on my ignorance, but you're fucking with the wrong Gringo because I know that Allende called for a plebiscite but September 11th happened before that plebiscite could happen. Just how "enormous" was that percentage of Chileans, that Chile needed to be taken by FORCE rather than a SECOND DEMOCRATIC VOTE??? So "enormous" that it wouldn't have gotten the majority, bitch!

Haha!

You're banking on my ignorance and the stupidity of my readers and you're not gonna get away with that shit you miserable fuck. You're a pathetic apologist for over 3,000 dead and over 30,000 tortured you make me sick.

I DO know about "what you guys lived through in the 70's". The right trounced the Chilean economy with CIA supported truckers strikes but even then didn't oust Allende so Chile had to be taken by force, and brutal war declared against unarmed civilians. I've co-produced a documentary film about a concentration camp in the north, I've talked to CHILEANS about this, on both right and left and I don't need you, fresco de raja to come in here and tell me about Chile as if YOU WERE CHILE. You are such a worthless individual that you would nominate yourself spokesman for an entire country, I would laugh if you weren't nakedly defending real-life murders. People like you should have every bone broken, allowed to heal, then broken again you are the bane of society you are so low you could walk under the front door with a top-hat on.

I'll bet you anything I know a shitload more about Chile than you do.

>>>supimos manejar nuestro destino y volver a la democracia mediante un proceso transparente y limpio.

Quick translation: we knew how to manage our destiny and return to democracy via a transparent and clean process

Please elaborate Skymaster. You're calling Pinochet achieved democracy bloodlessly and transparently? Gotta throw the book at you there's mountains of evidence to the contrary. Pinochet called for troops back out on the street after the people voted him out of office in 1989 and it's only thanks to US PRESSURE that he didn't reinstate the coup. The USA largely responsible for both beginning and ending the Pinochet dictatorship and I'm not trying to lord it over you because I don't rely on my country for identidad like you do, I'm just saying it's an historical fact and I take it as a personal insult to my intelligence and that of my readers that you'd try to spout any nonsense to the contrary.

Go shove it up where the sun don't shine.

Skymaster?"un proceso transparente y limpio."Por e...

2007-09-11T18:57:00.000-07:00

Skymaster?

"un proceso transparente y limpio."

Por eso Pinochet quedaba con el poder hasta que EL mismo decidiera soltarlo? Por eso Pinochet siguia gobernando durante la era de Aylwin atravez del poder militar con sus golpes blancos aunque se suponia que la dictadura habia terminado?

Por eso Pinochet gozaba de LIBERTAD Y IMUNIDAD TOTAL a pesar de haber cometido miles de abusos a los derechos humanos?!?

Por favor...mi water esta mas limpio que eso.

Gringo ignorante:llevas no sé cuántos años en Chil...

2007-09-11T17:54:00.000-07:00

Gringo ignorante:

llevas no sé cuántos años en Chile y no has comprendido absolutamente nada de mi país. Lo que haya podido hacer o no hacer el general Pinochet en primer lugar, NO es de tu incumbencia y en segundo lugar, fue en representación del sentir de un enorme porcentaje de chilenos.

No tienes idea de lo que vivimos durante los años 70: sufrimos un intento de ser raptados hacia un sistema soviético totalitario, fuimos amenazados de invasión por varios países a la vez, además de ser aislados por prácticamente el mundo entero, incluyendo tu país.
Aún así, supimos manejar nuestro destino y volver a la democracia mediante un proceso transparente y limpio.

Ningún norteamericano tiene autoridad para venir a darnos clases de democracia y de respeto a los derechos individuales. Menos aún cuando se toman la libertad de ofender y tratar a nuestro país de prostituta, por el hecho de practicar el libre comercio.

Nuestras leyes son nuestro problema, y si no te parecen, te invito cordialmente a dejar el país. Nadie te ha invitado a permanecer en él.

Hay ciertas conflictos que nunca terminan, fucking gringo....

Skymaster

I think you're on to something, considering that P...

2007-09-11T15:41:00.000-07:00

I think you're on to something, considering that Pinochet headed up Operation Condor which spanned much of South America, leftists caught in Paraguay tortured in Villa Grimaldi, high level assassinations in DC, Buenos Aires, attempted assassination in Rome. Plus a legacy that makes Chile today one of the biggest global whores -- sorry, "prolific ratifiers of FTAs". So "minor" is pretty off, especially considering that Bush has diligently chipped away at the credibility of the US on the world stage, closing the gap between Big Country villain and Small Country villain.

Any other specific reasons why Mike's statement is "way off"?

That Gringo Blogger said: "Pinochet was bad, but h...

2007-09-11T15:16:00.000-07:00

That Gringo Blogger said: "Pinochet was bad, but his power was minor compared to that wielded by the Bush/Cheney cadre."

He obviously has not read his history books. I'm no fan of our Current Moron-in-Chief or his Evil Puppetmaster "sidekick", but that statement is way off. Of course we'll see in 2009 if King George actually steps down.

--chuck
http://chuck.goolsbee.org