Frases de Augusto Pinochet
Augusto Pinochet
Data de nascimento: 25. Novembro 1915
Data de falecimento: 10. Dezembro 2006
Augusto José Ramón Pinochet Ugarte foi um general do exército chileno, ditador do Chile após um golpe militar em 11 de setembro de 1973, pelo Decreto Lei Nº 806 editado pela junta militar , que foi estabelecida para governar o Chile após a deposição e suicídio de Salvador Allende, e posteriormente tornado senador vitalício de seu país, cargo que foi criado exclusivamente para ele, por ter sido um ex-governante.
Governou o Chile entre 1973 e 1990, depois de liderar o golpe militar que derrubou o governo democraticamente eleito do presidente Salvador Allende.
Citações Augusto Pinochet
„Tell my friends to get me out of here.“
— Augusto Pinochet
October 27, 1998, nine days after being arrested in London, quoted in Heraldo Muñoz (2008) The Dictator's Shadow
„I was only an aspiring dictator. I was never a real dictator.“
— Augusto Pinochet
November 1998, during detention in London[http://www.lanacion.cl/prontus_noticias/site/artic/20061210/pags/20061210221221.html]
„I'm looking at them from above, because God put me there.“
— Augusto Pinochet
Speech (July 1987), quoted in "Las frases para el bronce de Pinochet."
„We practically wiped this nation clean of Marxists.“
— Augusto Pinochet
Speech (February 23, 1988), quoted in "Las frases para el bronce de Pinochet."
„This is not a dictadura [dictatorship/hard rule] but a dictablanda [soft rule].“
— Augusto Pinochet
Speech (September 1983), quoted in "Las frases para el bronce de Pinochet." The Spanish word dura means tough, while blanda means soft.
„I have a sour face. Maybe that's why they say I'm a dictator.“
— Augusto Pinochet
Speech (24 April 1986), quoted in "Las frases para el bronce de Pinochet."
„I have lived with my conscience and my own memories for over quarter of a century since the events of 1973.… These are not easy reflections for me. But I am at peace with myself, and with the Chilean people, about what happened. I am clear in my mind that the return to Chile of true democracy, and from that the true freedom to which all individual people are entitled, could not have been achieved without the removal of the Marxist government.“
— Augusto Pinochet
Statement (8 November 1998)
„He could have a thousand faults, but I do not blame anyone in particular and I despise brutality with which the Nazis acted against Israelites; but the fault is not only of Hitler, but a group of high-ranked dignitaries.“
— Augusto Pinochet
Interview (1989) quoted in "[http://www.guerraeterna.com/archives/2006/12/pinochet_y_hitl.html "Ego sum Pinochet" 1989, Inteview to Augusto Pinochet, authors Raquel Correa and Elizabeth Subercaseaux.]"
„Not a single leaf moves in this country if I'm not the one moving it. I want that to be clear!“
— Augusto Pinochet
Speech (October 1981), quoted in "Las frases para el bronce de Pinochet." This expression is not original to Pinochet; it is also attributed to Inca Atahualpa in 1531. See Las Casas, Destruction of the Indies.
„The only solution to the issue of human rights is oblivion.“
— Augusto Pinochet
Speech (21 September 1995), quoted in "Las frases para el bronce de Pinochet."
„The armed forces have acted today solely from the patriotic inspiration of saving the country from the tremendous chaos into which it was being plunged by the Marxist government of Salvador Allende.… The Junta will maintain judicial power and consultantship of the Comptroller. The Chambers will remain in recess until further orders. That is all.“
— Augusto Pinochet
Press conference (11 September 1973) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Hbhb0ozRuM Youtube.com]
„How is Obama's killing of Abdulrahman any different from Pinochet's murder of Orlando Letelier and Ronni Moffitt? In the one case, a 16-year-old boy has had his life snuffed out because he had the wrong father. In the other case, a man had his life snuffed out because he had the wrong philosophical beliefs. Given that the Letelier and Moffitt killings were treated as murders, why shouldn't the Abdulraham killing be treated as murder too?“
— Augusto Pinochet
Jacob G. Hornberger, [https://www.lewrockwell.com/2013/02/jacob-hornberger/why-isnt-the-murder-of-an-american-boy-an-impeachableoffense/ "Why Isn't the Murder of an American Boy an Impeachable Offense?"], LewRockwell.com (23 February 2013).
„I have certainly never contended that generally authoritarian governments are more likely to secure individual liberty than democratic ones, but rather the contrary. This does not mean, however, that in some historical circumstances personal liberty may not have been better protected under an authoritarian than democratic government. [... ] More recently I have not been able to find a single person even in much maligned Chile who did not agree that personal freedom was much greater under Pinochet than it had been under Allende. Nor have I heard any sensible person claim that in the principalities of Monaco or Lichtenstein, which I am told are not precisely democratic, personal liberty is smaller than anywhere else!“
— Augusto Pinochet
Friedrich Hayek, Letter to Times of London (1978).
