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Tomorrow, September 11, marks the 40th anniversary of the 1973 military coup in Chile that ousted the democratically elected socialist-communist Salvador Allende from power and installed the brutal right-wing military dictator General Augusto Pinochet. It was a coup that was not only supported by the U.S. national-security state but also one that the CIA actually helped to foment. Even worse, there is strong evidence indicating that the national-security state actually played a role during the coup in the execution of two young Americans, Charles Horman and Frank Terrugi.
As longtime supporters of The Future of Freedom Foundation know, I have long taken an interest in the Chilean coup, owing not just to the horrors that came with Chile’s military tyranny but also to the strong support that the U.S. government gave to such tyranny. Even more shocking for me, however, has always been the indifference that the Congress, the Justice Department, and the U.S. federal judiciary have given to the ...
