"Thatcher evinced any support for Pinochet or his regime pre-1980 and that even post 1980 "
Thatcher turned the good offices of the Conservative Party over to a murderous South American right-wing dictator, held a rally in his support in Kensington while he was under house-arrest a couple of miles down the road, awaiting a decision as to whether he would have to face trial for mass murder
She had the hall draped with crossed British and Chilean flags and she and one of her cohorts stood up on the platform and declared him a friend of Britain and his behaviour in Chile as a shining example of democracy as she saw it.
She accused the then government of the day, who were considering his extradition to face trial of "operating a police state".
Im over the moon that you should compare him with a seventeenth century demagogic butcher and describe them both as "good" - sorry - son't understand good/bad - they were both despotic, murderous thugs - making you, in supporting them - what exactly - a good/bad right wing extremist, maybe?
Jim Carroll