Beautiful Horizons: Enjoy Hell, Osvaldo Romo

July 04, 2007

Enjoy Hell, Osvaldo Romo

One of Augusto Pinochet's most vicious underlings, Osvaldo Romo, died Wednesday while serving time in prison for the murder of three dissidents. He was 70.

Not content to merely torture, Romo believed in killing all of those DINA, Pinochet's secret police force, had arrested. What the article doesn't say about Romo is that he switched sides. He had been involved with the Popular Socialist Union, which had been a member of Allende's Popular Union coalition.

One wonders what he ever believed in to switch sides and with such viciousness. On the other hand, perhaps he was merely the rankest of opportunists.

Jul 4, 2007 9:56:31 PM | Chile - Human Rights

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