Reply #21: I think you are correct in these facts [View All]

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Pinochet did say that, and it was an arrogant and stupid thing to say.

The picture shows Manuel Contreras and Pinochet, and Contreras was head of the secret police and it did engage in torturing some people. What's never reported is that Pinochet for 3 years did not know of those abuses and when he found out he fired Contreras and disbanded that police force (DINA) and I believe Contreras has been prosecuted and is in jail.

The other point, about Nixon and the CIA doing what they could to disrupt Allende is also true.

However, also never reported is that the KGB, Cuba, and other communist countries were even more active supporting Allende and setting up a violent takeover of Chile to make it into another Cuba. They did a lot of damage including killing people.

Unfortunately Chile was caught in the middle of two large global ideological forces fighting each other, headed by the U.S. and the Soviet Union, and in the end pulled itself out of that mess.

here's a couple of links to two very good articles and I hope for the sake of fairness you can look at them, instead of only looking at one point of view:

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/special_packages/focus/6763208.htm

http://www.thenewamerican.com/tna/2000/04-10-2000/vo16no08_pinochet.htm