Reuters: Bust of Pinochet to go in presidential palace

[Eugene]

Bust of Pinochet to go in presidential palace
17 Dec 2006 19:30:43 GMT
Source: Reuters

SANTIAGO, Chile, Dec 17 (Reuters) - A bust of the late Chilean dictator
Augusto Pinochet will probably be placed in the presidential palace bombed
in the general's 1973 coup, the defense minister said in an interview
published on Sunday.

The decision to include him in the pantheon of Chile's former presidents was
likely to anger leftists who say Pinochet, who died last weekend at 91, should
be ostracized by the state because of human rights abuses committed during
his 1973-90 dictatorship.

In an interview with El Mercurio newspaper, Defense Minister Vivianne Blanlot
was asked if Chile would unveil a bust of Pinochet in the presidential palace,
La Moneda.

"I think so, even though the idea is repulsive to many of us," said Blanlot,
who represented the center-left government at Pinochet's funeral on Tuesday.

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Full article: http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N17429968.htm

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1. And the statue of Victor Jara goes..where? nt