The difference between the coverage of Pinochet's death by international media and the coverage locally is remarkable.

I was just watching a local station cover his funeral, and an anchor was talking about Pinochet's "intervention" (=the coup, in international news) -- "for some, good; for others, bad."

It's a bit of a scandal in the news here that President Bachelet didn't attend the funeral and refused him other honors beyond a military funeral, and that she authorized military installations to fly flags at half-mast for his death, but not other government buildings.

In the news the rest of the (English-speaking, at least) world is reading simultaneously, it's a scandal that he's receiving any honors at all, and that the Defence Minister Vivianne Blanlot attended his funeral.

At the funeral, mourners took turns at the microphone to call Pinochet, among other things, "Chile's greatest president." The terms used for him are another point of difference: Internationally, he is a former dictator; here, he is often the "ex-president" or "ex-commander in chief." The "neutral" term seems to be "retired general."

Pinochet's daughter said (roughly translated): "Today the international press clearly will not understand how hundreds of thousands of compatriots ... are capable of demonstrating their gratitude and affection for someone the press has qualified in the worst terms and epithets that anyone can use for a human being."

Meanwhile, the disturbances here continue, though much less than Sunday. A couple of Pinochetista women were arrested, one for trying to lower a flag forcibly to half mast, another for smashing windows in a building where workers apparently yelled anti-Pinochet comments. Last night, anti-Pinochet protesters were being detained again near my house, though their seemed to be little violence this time.