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...front of foreigners, Hu has been a vigorous ambassador for China: the pattern was set in 2004, when Hu spent two weeks in South America--more time than George W. Bush had spent on the continent in four years--and pledged billions of dollars in investments in Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Cuba. While Wen Jiabao, China's Premier, was visiting 15 countries last year, Hu spent time in the U.S., Russia, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Nigeria and Kenya. In a three-week period toward the end of 2006, he played host to leaders from 48 African countries in Beijing, went...
...oversaw the torture of some 28,000 and "disappearance" of 3,200 perceived adversaries during his 17-year rule; in Santiago. After ousting Marxist President Salvador Allende in a bloody 1973 coup, the cunning, right-wing Pinochet banned political parties but also instituted free-market policies that stabilized Chile's economy. His 1998 arrest for war crimes as well as his subsequent house arrest offered some comfort to victims of his regime. But he always managed to evade trial, claiming illness and never expressing remorse. In 2003 he said, "I feel like a patriotic angel...
...writer lived, studied, and worked in Chile...
Allende was backed by Cuba and the Soviet Union, who sought to turn Chile into a despotic socialist state by providing him with money, man-power, and thousands of weapons. Fidel Castro toured Chile in early 1973, giving speeches in favor of Allende’s "revolution." Allende was accordingly condemned by the legislature, the judiciary, and three former presidents (including Eduardo Frei, a Marxist and former supporter of Allende) for his abuses. Finally, with many certain that a coup was inevitable given the hyperinflation (a paycheck from one week could not even afford bread in the next week), starvation...
Pinochet successfully rescued Chile from the threat of violent communist revolution, and orchestrated one of the most dramatic economic turnarounds of the era—bringing a country from total economic chaos into immense prosperity. Pinochet’s 1980 constitution was voted on and approved by the people of Chile, and in 1988, after losing elections his constitution instituted, Pinochet ceded the presidency, only retaining his status as commander-in-chief of the armed forces. Absolute control of the government had been necessary in the unstable years following the coup, as fierce communist opposition loomed. The disappearances and assassinations...