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Venezuela, Like Chile, Is None of the U.S. Government’s Business

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Ever since the U.S. government orchestrated the military coup in Chile in 1973 that ousted the democratically elected president of the country from office and installed the brutal military dictatorship of Gen. Augusto Pinochet, interventionists have maintained that (1) the coup was necessary to save Chile from socialism and communism and (2) that the murders, rapes, torture, and incarceration of tens of thousands of people were a necessary to step to restoring democracy in Chile. And yet, just a few days ago, the Venezuelan people, in a national election, elected people to the legislature that are opposed to Venezuela’s socialist president Vicente Maduro. There really isn’t any difference between Maduro and Salvador Allende, the Chilean president who the CIA and the Pentagon succeeded in ousting from power. Maduro is a died-in-the-wool socialist, just as Allende was. Like his predecessor Hugo Chavez, Maduro has imposed a socialist economic system on the country, just as Allende did, producing the same economic chaos in ...

The Death of the CIA’s Man in Chile

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Last Friday, former Chilean spy chief Manuel Contreras passed away while serving 526 years of prison terms for crimes that he orchestrated against innocent people during the brutal Chilean military dictatorship of Army Gen. Augusto Pinochet. According to an obituary in the New York Times, After the announcement of his death, dozens of people gathered outside the hospital to celebrate, chanting and opening bottles of Champagne. Dozens of others did the same in Plaza Italia, near downtown Santiago. Some waved Chilean flags and held up pictures of people who had disappeared after General Pinochet’s coup in 1973 that overthrew President Salvador Allende. One woman held up a sign saying, “Happy trip to hell, assassin.” Undoubtedly, the reaction at CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, was precisely the opposite, with CIA officials no doubt quietly and sadly mourning the passing of the man who ordered or presided over the kidnapping, torture, rapes, disappearances, and executions of tens of thousands of innocent people ...