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Those who are familiar with my articles know that for many years I have written lots of articles about the role of the U.S. government in the 1973 regime-change operation in Chile. The most recent of my articles, entitled "The 40th Anniversary of Chile's 9/11" was published just a few days ago.
After the Chilean people had democratically elected a man named Salvador Allende to the presidency, U.S. President Richard Nixon decided that the election would not be permitted to stand.
The reason? "National security."
You see, Allende was a socialist-communist, and that scared the dickens out of Nixon and the U.S. national-security establishment. Nixon ordered the CIA and the Pentagon into action. On September 11, 1973, the Chilean military, with the support of the U.S. national security state, ousted Allende in a violent coup and assumed power under the leadership of army General Augusto Pinochet.
Not surprisingly, Pinochet's regime turned into an orgy of brutality, violence, torture, rape, and murder.
The victims?
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