Thread: Gangsters at work The US attack on Chile 40 years ago

Gangsters at work
The US attack on Chile 40 years ago
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Published on Sep 10, 2013
http://www.democracynow.org - We continue our coverage of the 40th anniversary of the overthrow of Chilean President Salvador Allende with a look at the critical U.S. role under President Richard Nixon and his National Security Advisor, Henry Kissinger. Peter Kornbluh, who spearheaded the effort to declassify more than 20,000 secret documents that revealed the role of the CIA and the White House in the Chilean coup, discusses how Nixon and Kissinger backed the Chilean military's ouster of Allende and then offered critical support as it committed atrocities to cement its newfound rule. Kornbluh is author of the newly updated book, "The Pinochet File: A Declassified Dossier on Atrocity and Accountability," and director of the Chile Documentation Project at the National Security Archive. We're also joined by Juan Garcés, a former personal advisor to Allende who later led the successful legal effort to arrest and prosecute coup leader Augusto Pinochet.

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Thousands tortured, killed and 'disappeared'
Chile was the most democratic government in Latin America.

Its people elected Salvador Allende president.

Kissinger and Nixon didn't like it and gave the CIA a green light to take Allende down before he could take office.

Thousands of Chileans were tortured, murdered and 'disappeared' and a CIA-appointed thug General Augusto Pinochet took power.

Why did they do it?

They didn't want a democratically elected president in the country who they couldn't personally control because it might set a "bad example" to the rest of the world.

Right wing fascists, OK. Anything else, not permitted.

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