Pinochetized

[Laurence Horn]

At 9:24 AM -0400 5/5/00, Kathleen Miller wrote:
>There was one other hit in the Dow Jones Database.
>
>Chile Debates a Pinochet Return / Impact on election seen likely
>Geoffrey Mohan. LATIN AMERICAN CORRESPONDENT
>01/13/2000
>Newsday
>
>"Now What," asked the headline in the Santiago tabloid Latest News, the
>morning after British doctors said retired Gen. Augusto Pinochet was too
>ill to be extradited from England to Spain to face human-rights charges
>connected to his 17-year regime in Chile. Said another, "The Election has
>been Pinochetized!" "

Of course this one has a different sense from the one Rima noted earlier,
>In Wednesday's (May 3rd) SF Chronicle:
>
>"... of causing Efrain Rios Montt, the former dictator and current
>president of the Guatemalan Congress, to cancel a trip to Paris.  He
>said the weather is better at home.  In reality, he feared being
>Pinochetized...."
>
>Think it will stick?  Or are there too few dictators around for whom
>it might apply?

The Chronicle coinage is the more likely to prove useful for the general
lexicon, but I fear the participle is too unpronounceable to stick.

larry
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