Pinochet's grandson punished for eulogy remarks.

Captain Augusto Pinochet Molina, the grandson of former Chilean President Augusto Pinochet, was discharged from the army on December 13, in retaliation for remarks he'd made at his grandfather's funeral the previous day. In a eulogy the younger Pinochet extolled his grandfather as "a man who, at the height of the Cold War, defeated the Marxist government which tried to impose its totalitarian model, not through the ballot box, but through direct use of force." He also said that his grandfather and his family had been abused "by judges seeking to make a name for themselves rather than seeking justice."

Chile's socialist President Michelle Bachelet denounced Pinochet's comments as "a serious breach of discipline" and had the 34-year-old officer expelled from the military. Bachelet said that Gen. Pinochet had "caused an atmosphere of divisions, hatred and violence, but it is now a new era." "There is room for everybody in Chile," she said. Apparently, she meant that there is room for everybody on the left and freedom of expression for the most radical statements, including defamatory and undocumented charges against the late President Pinochet, but no freedom for family, friends, and supporters of Pinochet to respond.