Being sick and tired

Great timeing. I just started work and then I got sick :-(....not sick enough to stop working, just sick enough to be really annoyed with it. Furthermore, it is winter in Denmark and that means that we have a lot more wind when we sail (a lot of wind = a lot of high waves).

Anyway, I am working until the 24th (yes, also on my birthday...hint hint).

So, this week biggest news, other than the Baker report (Baker who has also done a lot of work with the Western Sahara issue) was Augusto Pinochets death. Finally, at the age of 91, he died.
He was a very powerfull symbol of all the regime there were in South America.
Interesting is it that Michelle Bachelet, president in Chile, experienced the dictatorship with closely when she was a child. Herself and her mother both got tortured in the 70's and her father got killed (He was very faithfull Allende supporter).

He will not get a "presidental funeral" today, but a funeral as other top-generals in Chile
(Pinochet was actually elected general by Allende months before the coup) and the reason is that even though most people in Chile dislike him, he still has some few supporters in the country. Even after his dead, Pinochet is splitting the country (40 per cent of the votes still go to the Pinochet-friendly rightwings!!).

I don't think he deserve anything at all, he was the dictator that inspired many other dictators in Latin America even though the regime in Argentina killed a lot more people. He died as a "free man" and he doesn't deserves more than that.

It is interesting that Milton Friedman just died some few days ago as well, it was Pinochet who got the "Chicago Boys" to Chile to improve the economy (and they managed to!). A few days ago, Pinochets daughter was in the media to tell that her father "will never apologize for anything"!