How many of his "disappeared" got church services/--- that would be none! After Pinochet's death, at 2:15 p.m., Michelle Bachelet, the Chilean president, met briefly with cabinet ministers and then released a terse announcement through her spokesman, Ricardo Lagos Weber, covering only funeral and memorial considerations with no other comment. Lagos said Pinochet would not receive a state funeral but would receive military honors. The president authorized flags to fly at half-staff at military installations but did not decree a period of national mourning.
On Sunday night, Pinochet's remains were taken from the Military Hospital of Santiago, where he died, to the Army Academy in Santiago, where several religious services were to be held throughout the day on Monday. Funeral services will take place at the Army Academy on Tuesday at noon, and the defense minister, Vivianne Blanlot, will attend to represent the government. The general's remains will be cremated and given to his family, Lagos said.
A few hundred mourners gathered in front of the hospital on Sunday afternoon, with some weeping or chanting "Viva Pinochet!"
"Pinochet rescued and transformed Chile into the country we all feel proud of," Hernan Guillof, president of the Pinochet Foundation, said to a group outside the hospital. "Once passions subdue, he will be given his place in history as architect of our nation."
But many more focused instead on the brutality and terror of Pinochet's 17- year rule, in which more than 3,200 people disappeared or were killed and tens of thousands were detained, tortured or exiled.
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