Thousands of anti-Pinochet protesters took to the streets in the centre of the capital, Santiago, with tear gas and water cannon used to disperse crowds. Cheering opponents of Gen Pinochet attempted to reach the presidential palace, but found police barring their way. Sporadic clashes broke out, with Chilean TV showing images of fires burning along one of the city's main avenues.
對皮氏的報導，智利的轉型正義仍在進行中
Pinochet is dead, but not dead enough. To see him as simply another vile bastard dictator who has snuffed it is to miss the point. He was crucial, inasmuch as he provided the opportunity for advanced capitalist states to test in the periphery a doctrine that lurked in the margins of political discourse back home. Long before the Arab-Israel war in 1973 and the OPEC crisis, capitalism was showing a serious crisis of profitability. As a result of diminishing returns on investment, the stock markets were slowing down, corporations offered low dividend payouts, interest rates were not much better than inflation - the wealth of the super-rich was being eroded, and a political response was called for.
皮諾契不只是一個獨裁者，他對推動新自由經濟學也提供助力，本文說明了Volker, 柴契爾夫人這些主導廿世紀末政治經濟史的要角如和與皮氏同在
