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Augusto Pinochet’s Grandson to Launch New Rightwing Party in Chile

13-12-2016 < Red Ice Creations 76 140 words
 
Augusto Pinochet’s Grandson to Launch New Rightwing Party in Chile The grandson of Augusto Pinochet is organising followers of the former dictator to launch a political party in Chile. “Republican Order My Country” [Orden Republicano Mi Patria] is the name of the political movement. It condemns gay marriage yet supports legalised marijuana and reforms to the Pinochet-era constitution. Though the pro-Pinochet forces have been organised for at least six years as a movement known as “For My Country”, after the arrest of a top Pinochet aide last week, Augusto Pinochet Molina, grandson of the dictator, stepped up formation of what supporters described as a centre-right political party. While the proposed party acknowledges that the military abused citizens, they never speak of a dictatorship but of a “military government” followed by “a witch hunt” and a “vendetta”…
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