Pinochet and bourgeois democratic right(long)

Carl Remick cremick at rlmnet.com
Tue Dec 1 11:30:44 PST 1998


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".

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Carl Remick



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