Pinochet dies, aged 91 .
I'm not Chilean, although I love Chile and used to live with a Chilean guy, so in some ways this is quite close to me and in others quite far away.
I remember my boyfriend's mum telling me how she was 'disappeared' with my boyfriend, when he was about the age my ds is now. The mind boggles. Fortunately they were not gone for long, but my boyfriend's dad was in prison for about 10 years. I have Chilean friends with that whole 'fear of uniform' thing where seeing the police even in this country (I hope we can get on board with the idea of our police not being prone to disappearing people) is very scary.