Now, despite those disputable practices the fact remains, overall, that anyone cannot but acknowledge that the man did much more good for Chile than his predecessor did or would have done, to the extent that economy and the well being of the population in Chile at the end of Pinochet governance counted among the best one could find in South America.

Those who never had the opportunity to travel to France, where I live now, will be perhaps surprised to learn in many French cities and towns there is a street or an avenue named after Salvador Allende, even though barely one French on ten knows who’s this person and in which country he lived. This owes to the fact that when a Communist is elected as mayor one of the first thing he does is to rename after the name of a communist personalities as much streets, avenues, avenues and administrative buildings as he can.
Thus it is not uncommon in France to find streets, avenues and places bearing names such as Lenin, Gagarin, Trotsky, Marx, etc; but never Joseph Stalin, at least.
However, French main streets and places are the more often named after the names of General de Gaulle and of this of the General Leclerc. There are some rare arteries named after names such as Franklin D. Roosevelt, President Wilson, George Washington, Lafayette, Eisenhower, and Benjamin Franklin. Overwhelmingly, thus named arteries are to be found in upper class areas.
As far as I know, there is not one street in the whole country named after the name of Augusto Pinochet. If one rightist mayor ever attempted to make such an exception, the left would immediately make a case with it and bring it to court and parliament. This anecdotic comment exemplifies what is democracy according to the left as JDZ pointed it out in this article.