Pinochet's death has aroused mixed feelings all around, obviously divided into two camps, those who consider him a ruthless murderer and those who believe that through their actions is that Chile now enjoys a privileged location in Latin America. When I saw the news on the page of a newspaper online is not caused me any feeling at the time, was something I already knew was going to happen soon, but then I read on the Internet some opinions on the subject and try to do the exercise to clarify my own opinion. I was surprised because I really was not easy, left my heart told me that the monster died without paying for thousands of war crimes but on the other hand, the fact that he lived near the Colombian violence and growing up in a city flanked by guerrillas paramilitaries and makes it easier to understand how painful it is war, which the people of the great cities seldom understood and this is what causes me conflict because in the end the extermination Pinochet worked, today they do not have guerrillas and we do.
I remembered those times when I lived in Santiago de Chile and Chileans to my friends was not easy to discuss the issue of Pinochet to the point that was considered taboo, some with only one bothered to name him and got a few opinions of them were to heat a few drinks. More or less the situation with the Germans and the Second World War.
also remembered a movie that has much meaning in my life, "Night of the pencils" made as a documentary medium showing Argentine teenagers who struggle to change the country and which suffer the yoke of dictatorial power and that viciously murdering them under the guise of protecting the stability of the country. And I say that this film has meant so much because I have seen at different stages in my life, first when it was a leftish adolestente so I only need to find the recruiter's M-19 to have gone into the hills to fight for a better world romantically . Then I saw when I had given up my dreams, I had sold the system and enjoying the comfort of the comforts of capitalism, my political ideology had gone to the right since the guerrillas took care of me understand the point of blood Communism is just a dream, a utopia that only works temporarily in the role and made me hate the left. In season is to see the film was shocking because I thought only an "it is But give them bullet "and when the mothers were crying saying that there were only kids I kept thinking" yes, but tomorrow will be the Sureshot, Reyes and Romana. The have gone from the country and now live in a society social democrat brought me back understand that the left if it can work but otherwise, without leaving aside democracy and the last time I saw the movie just did not know what to think, killing children is not right, but having a country full of blood is neither .
All this analogy with the movie is because it is more or less the same as Pinochet wake me, I know that 3000 people have disappeared is not right, but in Colombia these are the dead of violence as 2 weeks and we 50 years therein. Anyway, the Colombian case is different because the guerrillas are already here and is going to stay, the Chilean case was an extermination of genesis. And history is not far away Argentina. Never have questioned why the revolution Che did in your country?
The only conclusion I can draw is that of two evils I prefer the less.
