Dario Paya, Chilean MP: The reaction is irritation on top of the political confusion that this whole situation has created here.

The irritation is because we're feeling a lot of very strong political feelings, some of them very unhealthy, resurface after what we thought was a very responsible and carefully run transition to democracy. To witness all the damage that's been done to that effort by the intrusion of foreign governments and foreign institutions in what's essentially a Chilean problem, it's irritating.

It's absolutely outrageous, tantamount to trying Lord Mountbatten in a Chilean court for what he did in India. It's just very irritating and creating a lot of political tension in Chile. And we certainly don't welcome that.

Paya: Well, just before picking up this call, I was watching press coverage of a communist rally celebrating this. Whenever communists have anything to celebrate anywhere on earth, it's because something very wrong is happening in that society. That's the sort of thing we have to deal with now.