muh minin' rights :powercry-2:.
when Chilean democracy was being crushed, as it was by a military coup in 1973
:wonder-who-thats-for:
the political development of Chile has long been connected to the fate of democracy globally
what breed of dog is best for developing the fate of democracy globally
I got some real George Keenan "how dare those people in other countries sit on OUR resources" energy from it, too.
I love how the Washington Post thinks it can order distant foreign countries around.
The frightening part is: it can. It's the town newsletter of the administrative state.
Reading through the comments section
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Having lived and worked in Chile a number of years, I am amused at some of the comments below that assume the United States was responsible for the planning and execution of General Pinochet's 1973 coup.
One of the Left's enduring myths is that the United States was behind the planning and execution of General Augusto Pinochet's 1973 coup in Chile that overthrew the government of Salvador Allende. As was brought out in Senator Frank Church's 1975 Senate hearings on the CIA's intelligence activities, the CIA did provide $8 million over a three-year period to various opposition groups in Chile to keep them going, including labor unions, the anti-Allende newspaper El Mercurio (which Allende was attempting to shut down by having the nationalized banks withhold credit for newsprint), and others. Nevertheless, the U.S. provided neither funding nor assistance in the planning and execution of the coup itself. Although Embassy officials had evidence that something was afoot, they were not privy to the timing and actual plan itself.
Anyone who has served in Chile and studied the 1973 coup would find it laughable to hear someone insist that the Chilean military would need assistance from the U.S. The Chilean military was based on the Prussian model, was (and is) a very professional military, and was perfectly capable of planning and executing the coup on its own.
That the United States was glad to see Allende overthrown is undeniable. It does not follow, however, that the United States engineered the action that led to his overthrow. The Left's narrative of U.S. involvement in General Pinochet's coup in Chile, is one more example of the mental and ideological prison in which it dwells.
:matt-jokerfied: SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP
this is so on the nose that i am assuming it's not CIA, but some poli sci dweeb who desperately wants to work for the CIA when he's grown up
Kissinger literally did a boohoo over how the U.S. wouldn't get recognition for it which implies that yes they fucking did
Taking this opportunity to remind everyone to read The Jakarta Method
It is next for me after Against Empire :rat-salute-2:
i am dead serious when i say that everyone who has ever written an opinion article for the wapo or the nyt should be shot in the head right in front of their family
this would be a great time to have another liz bruenig struggle sesh
Wapo are intentionally misinterpreting the fact that "reject" is ahead in a right wing way when there are many leftists in that camp who think it does not go far enough.
