We Have No Political Prisons. We Have

The Nation Is Trying To Make Chile A Country Of Proprietors, Not Of Proletarians.

The Freedoms Which Had Been So Hard Won From Colonial Domination Were Being Crushed By Soviet-inspired And Funded Military And Political Forces. Their Clear Intention Was To Deprive The People Of Their Democratic Freedoms. As History Shows, This Is What Had Happened In The Soviet Union And In Cuba, And Continues To Be The Case In Other Parts Of The World.

I Have Lived With My Conscience And My Own Memories For Over Quarter Of A Century Since The Events Of 1973. These Are Not Easy Reflections For Me. But I Am At Peace With Myself, And With The Chilean People, About What Happened. I Am Clear In My Mind That The Return To Chile Of True Democracy, And From That The True Freedom To Which All Individual People Are Entitled, Could Not Have Been Achieved Without The Removal Of The Marxist Government.

He Could Have A Thousand Faults, But I Do Not Blame Anyone In Particular And I Despise Brutality With Which The Nazis Acted Against Israelites; But The Fault Is Not Only Of Hitler, But A Group Of High-ranked Dignitaries.

The Only Solution To The Issue Of Human Rights Is Oblivion.