29 APRIL 1995, Page 31

Right on

Sir: It ill becomes Paul Johnson in your issue of 18 March (Another thing) to describe Fidel Castro as a 'mass murderer and torturer'. Castro is indeed a dictator of a rather repellent kind, but it is not long since I read an article in your journal by Paul Johnson praising General Pinochet, who is quite as guilty as Castro of torture and murder. But Pinochet was, of course, a right-wing dictator, and so, I assume, OK by Paul Johnson.

Chris McMaster

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