A hovering helicopter and a body that crashes into the void. Under the inscription, emblematic: "Free Helicopter Rides", "Free helicopter flights". A clear allusion to what you see: not a free ride, but a free flight into the void. How for years the thugs have served the Argentine military dictatorship: political prisoners sedated but still alive launched by planes and helicopters on the Atlantic or Rio de la Plata waters.The writing appeared on the shirts that Amazon has put up for sale in recent months. A blockbuster. Bunches of fascist and far-right shoppers have bought in bulk. So much so that the multinational of online distribution and sales has decided to put some variants online. Always with a helicopter that serves as a backdrop to the image of Augusto Pinochet and the inscription: "Pinochet, my copilot". And others with the face of the Chilean dictator and phrases that acclaim him. A t-shirt with a helicopter topped by the "Anti-Communist Action" logo is also accompanied by a caption explaining what it is about: "The perfect gift for any patriot, Trump supporter, conservative, Republican you could know".
The largest number of purchases comes from the USA. In the "Unite the Right" rally of 2017 in Charlottesville, Virginia, the white nationalist Christopher Cantwell wore one with Pinochet's face during an interview with Vice. The advertising and networking of these memorabilia has shaken family members of the desaparecidos. In Argentina, between 1976 and 1983, at least 3,000 men and women, often very young, taken on the street, at home, at the university, in bars and restaurants by secret service teams even in the odor of leftist sympathies, were tortured, kept segregated in illegal prisons and then in the middle of the night, with the excuse of being transferred and subjected to alleged antiviral vaccines were loaded onto planes and helicopters of the army's air forces and then launched into the void. They were unable to react. But they were still alive. Only the confessions of one of the participants in these criminal "flights of death" to an Argentine journalist allowed to open a gash on the criminal slaughter. Horacio Verbitsky reports it in a book: "El vuelo".Amazon has not responded to the series of reports and protests. She simply removed the T-shirts from her site. Even if you could still buy three days ago. It is not the first time that the multinational founded by Jeff Bezos, publisher among other things of the Washington Post, yield to these trends. At the beginning of December she was forced to withdraw the Christmas decorations with images of the Auschwitz concentration camp. Daniela Elit, Chilean author and founder of the Collective of Arts Actions in 1979 as an act of censorship during Pinochet's dictatorship was extremely harsh: "This is not only detrimental to society but also to incomprehensible cruelty. It shows how the worst part of humanity can be absorbed by the market and transformed into an object of consumption ".
The largest number of purchases comes from the USA. In the "Unite the Right" rally of 2017 in Charlottesville, Virginia, the white nationalist Christopher Cantwell wore one with Pinochet's face during an interview with Vice. The advertising and networking of these memorabilia has shaken family members of the desaparecidos. In Argentina, between 1976 and 1983, at least 3,000 men and women, often very young, taken on the street, at home, at the university, in bars and restaurants by secret service teams even in the odor of leftist sympathies, were tortured, kept segregated in illegal prisons and then in the middle of the night, with the excuse of being transferred and subjected to alleged antiviral vaccines were loaded onto planes and helicopters of the army's air forces and then launched into the void. They were unable to react. But they were still alive. Only the confessions of one of the participants in these criminal "flights of death" to an Argentine journalist allowed to open a gash on the criminal slaughter. Horacio Verbitsky reports it in a book: "El vuelo".Amazon has not responded to the series of reports and protests. She simply removed the T-shirts from her site. Even if you could still buy three days ago. It is not the first time that the multinational founded by Jeff Bezos, publisher among other things of the Washington Post, yield to these trends. At the beginning of December she was forced to withdraw the Christmas decorations with images of the Auschwitz concentration camp. Daniela Elit, Chilean author and founder of the Collective of Arts Actions in 1979 as an act of censorship during Pinochet's dictatorship was extremely harsh: "This is not only detrimental to society but also to incomprehensible cruelty. It shows how the worst part of humanity can be absorbed by the market and transformed into an object of consumption ".
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