埃尔文面临着任何新建立的民主国家的领导人所面临的最艰难的道德选择之一：对在皮诺切特将军独裁期间绑架、虐待和杀害成千上万智利人的人的起诉应该进行到何种程度。
Aylwin faced one of the toughest moral choices any leader of a newly re-established democracy can confront: how far to push prosecution of those who had abducted, tortured, and killed thousands of Chileans during General Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship.