Because he was a brutal dictator. Videla has a bigger kill tally than him, but that doesn't stop Pinochet from being a brutal dictator. If we go into it, Mao has the biggest kill tally and that doesn't stop any other brutal dictators from being... well, brutal dictators.P.S: Why is Pinochet remembered as a brutal dictator, when the neighboring Argentinian Junta has a far worse record of Human Rights abuses? Things were bad, but he es far from the posterboy for latinamerican right abuses.