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Judi Lynn

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2. Including a painting which everyone other than fascists finds eloguent:
Thu May 10, 2018, 07:34 PM
May 2018


(Note: during Pinochet's terrorism against the political left. real or suspected left, this river regularly carried the bodies of government-murdered suspected "dissidents" on their way out of town. People walking on the sidewalks on the banks often saw dead Chileans floating rapidly past them. The picture represents an old man searching the water for his government-kidnapped daughter.)





Graffiti on the banks. Pinochet did employ a squadron of helicopters to go from town to town, running down suspected anti-Pinochet people and murdering them by shooting the bejesus out of them. They called it the "Caravan of Death" hoping to make even a more horrible image to paralyze innocent people with fear, so they would be less inclined to become righteously indignant and consider protesting his sadistic, 100% evil right-wing rule.
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