Pinochet and bourgeois democratic right

Tom Kruse tkruse at albatros.cnb.net
Mon Nov 30 10:35:20 PST 1998


Doug asked:


>Today's Financial Times has an AP photo of a pro-Pinochet demo held in
>Santiago on Sunday. The woman in the center of the pic has her arm
>outstretched in what looks to these Yankee eyes like a Nazi salute. Am I
>overinterpreting this gesture?

I saw that picture too, in the local Cochabamba paper ... life in the global village, eh? Overinterpretation? Yes and no. I don't think they do the heil hitler thing. But they probably are facists, but oughtn't be judged by their salutes.

Tom

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