The Banality of Henry Kissinger

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146. All the more pathetic,

when one remembers that Pinochet was trained in Nazi Germany - and remained an unabashed Nazi until his death from diabetes in 2006. As a Jewish man, that alone should shame Kissinger to tears - but alas, Henry is nothing if not shameless.

Pinochet, besides sheltering the Nazi pedophile den Colonia Dignidad, was always good to his fellow Nazis in Chile: two of Chile's three richest people - retail tycoon Horst Paulmann and shipping magnate Sven von Appen - are apparently ODESSA network Nazis, and of course benefited greatly from Pinochet. The same goes for Pinochet's principal civilian apologist, the right-wing former President Sebastián Piñera (who made his first fortune by cleaning out the Bank of Talca in 1982, the 2nd-largest bank failure in Chile up to then).

These "success stories" are in sharp contrast to other businesspeople in Chile, more of whom were ruined by the two Pinochet-era financial crises than even under the misguided Allende. That said, what Chile has experienced since Pinochet stepped down in 1990 is almost a miracle similar to Portugal's and Spain's in the '80s and '90s.