Frozen in time
A tragedy exposes military flaws
THE Chilean armed forces have long had a high opinion of their own professionalism, whatever some of their fellow-countrymen think of their abuses under the dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet. The death last weekend of some 40 troops, killed in a freak Andean blizzard, was not just the army's worst peacetime loss. It has shaken confidence in the institution just as it had finally started to reform.
This article appeared in the The Americas section of the print edition under the headline “Frozen in time”
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