Richopinochet

Pinochet is dead, this is true
but before you go dancing off
take a good close look at you
eating out of this wealthy trough
paying taxes, taking classes
in telling the world what to do
Pinochet finaly said what all we knew
"I did it, i killed them all, its true"
But what he did not say, is who
paid him, or who asked him to.
Mamita Yunay is not here today
sold away it seems, like many dreams
but still dont ask about the C-I-A
That nine-eleven wasnt how it seems
Chuck Horman is deep in the ground
Operation Condor now rests its wings
and Michael Townley is not around
The game is played with other things
And every american stands proud
"Responsibility" or so spoke Pinochet
But i ask you, Where is ours today?
Things change, do they in the end?
It is still a dangerous game they play
With these taxxes you, my friend

Still, So faithfully pay.







Augusto José Ramón Pinochet Ugarte (November 25, 1915 - December 10, 2006)

"It is firm and continuing policy that Allende be overthrown by a coup .... it is imperative that these actions be implemented clandestinely and securely so that the USG (United States government) and American hand be well hidden." --Released CIA memo stemming from Nixons Sept 1970 order to Henry Kissenger that he bring about the fall of Allende's democraticly elected government in Chile.

The coup d'état was enacted three years later on September 11, 1973, with Pinochet placed at the helm. The next years in Chile were quite dark, with between three and thirty thousand peoples executed and at least thirty thousand tortured at the hands of his CIA backed secret police and inteligence network.

Pinochet died of a heart attack at the age of 91 in a military hospital in Chile, surounded by his family. He was not given a state funeral. He leaves behind several children, a country that isnt quite sure of what to make of him, and more than a handfull of former concentration camps. Among them is the National Stadium in Santiago, Chile, where, among 40,000 other political prisoners, american journalists Charles Horman and Frank Teruggi were held and later executed with the knowledge and complicity of the US State Department. The stadium is still open for a number of sporting and political events, and can be visited by the public.