05-12-2009, 11:38 PM
Quote:Bachelet was among those who filed past the coffin at the Victor Jara Foundation, a community center that his widow, Joan Jara, helped create to keep his memory alive.While the reburial is an important symbolic thing to do for his family and for the other victims, and everyone was a victim in one way or another, it will take more than that to bring peace to Chile. Bachelet could abolish Pinochet's illegal constitution and restore Allende's legitimate constitution for a start and abolish all of the laws that were forced onto Chile by Pinochet. Bachelet was elected with overwhelming support of the Chilean people and she could have done anything but has done nothing, nada, zilch since she was elected. Totally squandered all that good will. The right wing will be back next election, not that they ever left. What has been allowed to under during her presidency is a travesty. I can only assume that there is some major hold over her, threats to her family or such for her to have acted (or not as the case may be) in the way she has.
"I believe that finally, after 36 years, Victor can rest in peace," Bachelet said Friday, adding that many other victims of the dictatorship deserve similar resolutions, "and that's why it's important that we keep advancing in truth and justice so that Chile can rest in peace."
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"He would, wouldn't he?" Mandy Rice-Davies. When asked in court whether she knew that Lord Astor had denied having sex with her.
“I think it would be a good idea” Ghandi, when asked about Western Civilisation.