"This is not a dictadura [dictatorship/hard rule] but a dictablanda [soft rule]."
— Augusto Pinochet

January 1, 1970

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Speech (September 1983), quoted in "Las frases para el bronce de Pinochet." The Spanish word dura means tough, while blanda means soft.