Pinochet and bourgeois democratic right(long)

[Carl Remick]

Re Sam's:  "I remember seeing
a picture of Pinochet seated in front of a birthday cake in the FT a few
years
ago. The caption read something like 'Greetings from Margaret Thatcher
on your
80th birthday'. I was kind of stunned when i saw that. I wasn't aware
that the
ruling class' support for Pinochet was that overt. I don't know if we'll
see any
more of that in the bourgeois press."

Pinochet is experiencing quite a comedown all around.  Now the London
clinic where he's been staying wants to toss him out for malingering.
The following ran in today's UK Guardian:

The general gets his orders: stop moaning and get out 

Chilean officials were trying desperately to find accommodation for
General Augusto Pinochet last night after the private clinic where he is
staying said it would consider suing him unless he leaves immediately. 

The Grovelands Priory Hospital in Southgate, north London, has been
urging Gen Pinochet to go for a fortnight.

Doctors treating the former Chilean dictator say there is nothing wrong
with him, and staff are tired of the disruption his presence is causing.
"Grovelands is not a hotel and it is not a secure unit either," said a
source.

There have also been murmurings that Gen Pinochet, who is used to
staying in five-star hotels on his travels abroad, has been a difficult
and fussy patient who "enjoys a good moan".

[end of excerpt]

Carl Remick