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| Memory Versus Hope, Frei Versus Piñera |
| Written by Bill Stott |
| Monday, 18 January 2010 03:56 |
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Commentary by Bill Stott ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ) (You have the advantage on me, reader. You know who won the Frei – Piñera election. I am writing while it’s still going on. (This election, like so many, is between the party of memory and the party of hope, past versus future. The Concertación’s only hope is that the majority of Chileans still take the left’s suffering during the Pinochet dictatorship so much to heart that they won’t vote for the presidential candidate they judge to be more closely allied to the dictatorship.
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