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FIVE YEARS AGO Monday Pinochet's military stormed the presidential palace in Santiago, Chile, to depose and murder Salvador Allende Gossens. Five years ago today Nixon and, Kissinger chortled over the success of their best-laid plans to foment the coup, to "make the economy scream" in Chile, to make the world safe for democracy...
...despite the history of U.S. intervention and penetration in most of the rest of the world, the people of South Africa, the people of the Philippines and the people of Chile continue to hope and struggle for control of their destinies. They should be a lesson to us: Allende lives...
FIVE YEARS AGO today Pinochet's military stormed the presidential palace in Santiago, Chile, to depose and murder Salvador Allende Gossens. Five years ago today Nixon and Kissinger chortled over the success of their best-laid plans to foment the coup, to "make the economy scream" in Chile, to make the world safe for democracy...
...foreign policy toward Allende's Chile included withdrawal of all foreign aid except to the military, wholesale cuts in World Bank, Export-Import Bank, and private sector bank loans and credits to Chile, payment of millions of CIA dollars to finance anti-Allende demonstrations and mouthpieces such as El Mercurio, and direct CIA encouragement for the coup. U.S. multinational corporations such as ITT also funded anti-Allende subversion, although ITT executives have avoided jail because the U.S. government says too many "national security secrets" would come out in a trial...
...Santiago, Pinochet ordered that the three Chileans be kept under house arrest. Espinoza and Fernández are officers in Chile's army; Contreras, once Chile's second most powerful official, was forced by Pinochet to resign in October to improve the junta's image. The Chilean Supreme Court now must determine whether the U.S. has enough evidence to warrant extraditing them...