Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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FIVE YEARS AGO Monday, Pinochet's military stormed the presidential palace in Santiago, Chile, to depose and murder Salvadore 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...
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...
...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 mouth-pieces such as El Mercurio, and direct CIA encouragement for the coup. U.S. multinational corporations such as ITI 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...
...this was directed against a democratically-elected president whose government, despite the U.S.-sponsored economic destabilization, managed to increase its popular vote plurality from 36 per cent in 1970 to 43 per cent in 1973, six months before the coup. So much for democracy...
Businessmen, intellectuals and churchmen are now united in their conviction that the longer the present situation continues, the greater the danger of a coup from either the left or the extreme right. Says Adolfo Calero, a prominent conservative politician: "The conservatives want it known that in Nicaragua there are democratic forces that represent the great majority of the people who have placed themselves in civil opposition to this government." Adds Alfonso Robelo Callejas, a wealthy industrialist: "We feel more than ever the urgency to get rid of Somoza and the government because his presence provokes such [terrorist] actions...