Picking simply the first news story on Google News announcing the death of Augusto Pinochet we get this:

General Pinochet seized power on Sept. 11, 1973, in a bloody military
coup that toppled the Marxist government of President Salvador Allende.
He then led the country into an era of robust economic growth. But
during his rule, more than 3,200 people were executed or disappeared,
and scores of thousands more were detained and tortured or exiled.

No, I don’t defend the fact that he killed and tortured people and I don’t think that I ever have. Just one little counterpoint though. There’s another Latin American Caudillo who has also killed and tortured thousands of his country men, Fidel Castro. He, as we know, has not led his country to an era of robust economic growth.

If we are going to be accurate, and portray both of them as dictators who took power at gunpoint and then reshaped society in their preferred image, killing innocents as they did so, well, perhaps we might want to point out that if you’re going to break eggs, can you at least manage to make the damn omelette?