The Tom Woods Show, episode 812.

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Woods. Hello everybody. Tom Woods here by popular demand, an episode on Augusto Pinochet in Chile.

There's controversy about him, even among libertarians. When you look at his record, you can say

Chile became a far more livable place than its neighbors, and it has a lot to boast about. But at the same time,

you have the Pinochet human rights record to reckon with. So how are we to make sense of this

period in history? Joining me to answer that question is Axel Kaiser, who is the executive

director of the Chilean think tank Fundacion para el Progresso.

You can find out more about that over on the show notes page, tomwoods.com slash 812.

Axel, welcome to the show.

Thanks for having me, Tom. It's a pleasure.

I've been looking for somebody to talk to me about Pinachet for a while, but I haven't known who the appropriate person is.

So you are the lucky winner, my friend. Congratulations. I'd like to just guide us through the relevant topics.

I will say that when I visited Chile back in, I guess it was, wow, 2008. It's been a while, or 2009.

Somewhere between 2008 and 2009, I visited. And I had a great time. But my perception was that even to this day, people in Chile are very divided over there regarding their views of Pinochet and his legacy.

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