Hi Hilmar

>Apart from the six dictatorships involved (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Bolivia, Paraguay, Uruguay), the U.S. also played an important role, giving its blessing to this operation. It seems the people involved thought that strengthening the dictatorships was a lesser evil, compared to the perceived threat of communism.

Aah, parallels in the software industry, I just read someplace that Open Source softwares were thought of as communism of the software industry. Wonder who the dictators are and are percieved to be the lesser evil *g*