The death of Augusto Pinochet, Chile’s former dictator, has triggered worldwide reactions even though more than 30 years have passed since his overthrow of the democratically elected government of Salvador Allende and his death in the Moneda palace on September 11th, 1973. Pinochet’s notoriety was kept alive in recent years by his detention in London, in 1998, for his responsibility for the human rights violations which he unleashed on the Chilean people following the US-sponsored coup of 1973… This article is written by Roberto Navarrete, a political prisoner under Pinochet, about Pinochet’s death and the democratic legacy of Latin America. It’s really in-depth read with unique interpretation and an optimistic ending, damn sounds too good to be true!