Word: socialists
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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...
...Allende had been able to continue to advance his extreme socialist agenda, he could well have caused far more death and misery than the 3000 people Pinochet is responsible for murdering. Human rights groups have regularly denounced Pinochet’s torture and execution of his political opponents, yet the same organizations often overlook Cuba’s then routine torture of tens of thousands of its dissidents. Not to mention the atrocities committed in the Stalinist Soviet Union, Maoist China, or other socialist Latin American governments. It is important to remember that communism can be very dangerous?...
...that terrorized Chile in the wake of his 1973, U.S.-backed military coup. His passing comes near the end of a year in which the leftist political forces he worked so violently to expunge have swept back into power in presidential elections all over Latin America - including Chile, where socialist Michele Bachelet now rules. As a result, pundits from Mexico City to Buenos Aires are sure to remark in their obituaries that the left wouldn't be enjoying such resilient support in the region if it were not for the reactionary excesses of figures like Pinochet that pockmark Latin American...
...Daniel wrote about the recent dissolution of the Soviet Socialist Republics,” Seward wrote in an e-mail. “The piece probably could have run in the Economist with minor editing to correct for the spelling of Gorbachev...
...expected. Watson, who is now 78, began his short talk by reminiscing about the illustrator of the class’s textbook, “Molecular Biology of the Gene,” which he authored. According to Watson, the illustrator was “an old-fashioned socialist,” whereas Watson described himself as a Democrat, “but sort of in the Lou Dobbs camp. I just think there should be a wall, that our country shouldn’t speak Spanish.” Next, discussing evolutionary bases of cultural diversity, Watson spoke about...