A Pinochet Loyalist Just Named Dictator’s Lawyers To Run Chile’s Defense and Human Rights. THIS IS NOT A DRILL.
In a move that has sent a political shockwave across Chile, incoming far-right President Jose Antonio Kast has appointed TWO former personal lawyers of dictator Augusto Pinochet to his cabinet. One will run the Ministry of Defense. The other will be in charge of Human Rights.
Let that sink in.
President-elect Kast, the first hard-right leader since Pinochet himself, is handing the keys to the nation’s security and its moral conscience to men who once defended one of history’s most brutal regimes. Pinochet’s dictatorship left over 3,200 Chileans dead or disappeared. Tens of thousands more were tortured and imprisoned in a reign of terror that still haunts families today.
Now, the men who stood by that regime will control the military AND define human rights policy. The message is terrifyingly clear: Chile’s dark past is being rewritten as its official future.
This is a DIRECT assault on historical memory. It is a slap in the face to every victim and every family that has fought for justice. It signals that for Kast’s government, the architects and defenders of state terror are not villains—they are qualified leaders.
Why does this matter to everyone? Because it shows how authoritarianism creeps back. It happens with quiet appointments, with the rehabilitation of monsters, with the slow erasure of truth. The global far-right is watching and learning: you can bury the past by putting its guardians in power.
The victims are being told, in the coldest bureaucratic terms, that their torturers’ allies now hold the pen that writes history.
Chile just took a giant step back into its own nightmare.
Edited for Kayitsi.com
Author: Kayitsi.com
