Are you actually saying that Spain's efforts to
> put on trial Pinochet is an example of "imperial justice"
Yes.
> and should
> be condemned as such?
While I will not go as far as Carrol on the question of morality, I am not generally in the business of "condemning" things, at least in political terms. I simply do my best to call them what they are.
Never mind that Spain had losts its power over its American colonies
> 175 or so years ago.
You mean their colonial relationship formally ended? That's a far cry from the loss of all power (economic, military, diplomatic, etc.).
> That they were putting on trial an agent of U.S.
> imperialism, a head of state who gained that status by overthrowing an
> elected socialist president and murdered thousands of socialists,
> leftists, workers, and peasants so as to implement neoliberal economic
> policies?
So how is resolving the internal contradictions of a sovereign state an ocean away the proper business of the Spanish crown?
-- "Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen lytlað."