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Caribbean-Latin America
Pinochet given last rites after massive heart attack
2006-12-04
AUGUSTO PINOCHET has been given the last rites after a massive heart attack left the former Chilean strongman clinging to life. “His fate is in the hands of God and his doctors,” the former dictator’s son Marco Antonio Pinochet Hiriart said yesterday as his father remained conscious and in a stable condition. Juan Ignacio Vergara, a doctor treating the retired general, said 91-year-old Pinochet’s life was “in danger”. State television later reported that doctors had decided to carry out heart bypass surgery. A family spokesman, Guillermo Garin, said that a Catholic priest had given Pinochet the last rites.

Pinochet back from brink of death

Reports of second Pinochet surgery denied
Posted by:Fred

#6  So what's up with all the allegations of having tons of people killed? Were those bad guys or something?
Posted by: gorb   2006-12-04 19:32  

#5  Latin America owes him a big thank you. He save Chile from a Communist dictatorship, and guided Chile back to democracy.

I hope when he dies, he is buried with his middle finger raised to all the socialist who tried to get him.

Al
Posted by: frozen al   2006-12-04 10:06  

#4  Let's remember that Castro has killed between 6 and 10 times more people thahn Pinochet, lined his pockets MUUUCH more than Pinochet, ruined the country and didn't step down from power. But the MSM are lamneting that Pinochet not Castro will die unpunished.
Posted by: JFM   2006-12-04 05:52  

#3  That bastard made Chile stable and healthy compared to the rest of the sewer to the south.

And he stepped down unlike another who was elected today but blacked out Telemundo.
Posted by: anonymous2u   2006-12-04 01:48  

#2  State television later reported that doctors had decided to carry out heart bypass surgery.

Just let the ba$tard die.
Posted by: gorb   2006-12-04 01:18  

#1  Dad knows the guy Pinochet tried to have blown up in Washington a few decades ago.
That guy just had a massive heart attack in the past week too.

Sound's like a generation comming to an ending.
Posted by: 3dc   2006-12-04 00:22  

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