It was not quite the most miraculous recovery since Lazarus. But when General Augusto Pinochet arose from his wheelchair to greet his army friends at Santiago airport on March 3rd, he was sprightly enough to embarrass two governments. The episode seemed to cast a momentary doubt over Britain's decision to release him from almost 17 months' detention, on the ground that the elderly general was too ill for extradition or trial. But the bigger irritation was to Ricardo Lagos, the moderate socialist who is due to take over as Chile's president on March 11th.
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