Prisoner in a English Clinic thousands of kilometers distance from Chile and eight years after leaving the Presidency , General Augusto Pinochet the central illustration of the Chilean political life continues, capable to provoke love and hate in maximum intensity.
In Chile, when the themes are Pinochet, human rights and democratic transition, the political polarization is immediate and radical.
It seems as if time had stopped and the country lived in a state of interns cold war interns.
Pinochet really divides the society in an almost biblical way
Impressive to verify the hate still explodes in the confront between left-wings demonstrators and the customs officer in Santiago's streets.
One of the causes that maintains lit hate is the missing persons relatives' fact in the military regime because they at least have no tombs to visit
The Army are far away from any gesture of national reconciliation at least recognize the human rights as a theme of national life.
The difficulty to understand the polarization is there are not reliable researches.
Who defends the judgement of Pinochet shakes a survey of the Center of Studies of the Contemporary Reality (Cerc), for the which 62% of the interviewees are favorable he settles down the truth about the violations of the human rights, with the judgement of the responsible persons.
That number was mentioned by favorite candidate to president Eduardo Frei succession, the socialist Ricardo Lagos (his party integrates the government coalition ), with base in a research disclosed last Friday.
The problem is the research had been made before Pinochet detention.
Deputy Alberto Espina Otero, president of the party right-wing National Renewal (RN), sustains that 70% of the Chileans defend the national sovereignty in the Pinochet case , what implies his immediate return and to leave the subject of the human rights to position of the Chilean Justice.
The arguments to defend Pinochet will win force in case the information disclosed yesterday is confirmed by " Sunday Telegraph ", when Pinochet being stopped, he met in London to invitation of the British Ministry of Defense, as member of a delegation which had gone to the country to buy weapons.
More than 200 former-ministers, former-collaborators and advisers of the military regime created a permanent group to work in the defense of the legacy of the military regime and their immediate objective is to obtain the Pinochet return.
It was published in the Chilean press that 38 members and collaborators of the military regime represent in the process moved in Spain by Judge Baltasar Garzón for violation of the human rights.
After the Friday decision, in the National Audience recognized the Spanish competence to judge crimes made by military governments from Chile and of Argentina, those people were recommended by Chilean Authorities not leave the country
The Pinochet return creates different expectations.
Left-wings demonstrators and militant of the human rights they asked a plebiscite about the repeal of the Law of Amnesty.
In the right-wings, they began to appear favorable voices to a discreet paper for Pinochet in the political life.
Presidential candidate Joaquim Lavin, the second in the researches, says that the military was defended even for who doesn't support him, as President Eduardo Frei, and when returning Pinochet should answer with greatness, insinuating that is necessary a reconciliation gesture.
Senator Carlos Cantero, of the National Renewal (RN), declared Pinochet, lifelong senator, he should simply abandon the public life.
Chile is divided and the Chileans know many person wants to win publicity with cost of them and the country delicate political situation because no one of that tribunals (Spanish or French) has support in International Law .
Chile will explode in flames with international incendiaries collaboration
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