[lbo-talk] Punish a Pinochet: Cui Bono?

[James Heartfield]

I wrote a web-piece ten years ago saying that the detention of Pinochet in 
Britain was not the best way to get justice, but more of a humanitarian 
intervention style act of imperialism.

(Still, it doesn't say much for my foresight that in it I condemned the US 
state department for manufacturing terrorism charges against one "Muhammed 
bin Laden" (sic)):

Chile: still a laboratory for Western policy experiments
06 December 1998
The detention of former Chilean dictator Pinochet has raised hopes of 
justice for his victims, but it still leaves Chile's future dictated outside 
of its borders, writes James Heartfield
[The rest is at]
http://web.archive.org/web/20000815234440/www.informinc.co.uk/LM/discuss/commentary/12-06-98-PINOCHET.html