Chile protests seek Obama apology for CIA meddling

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

Chile protests seek Obama apology for CIA meddling
– Sun Mar 20, 9:10 pm ET

SANTIAGO, Chile – Several hundred people have protested in the Chilean capital ahead of Monday's visit by President Barack Obama.

Communist Party leader Guillermo Teillier says political, cultural and social representatives have signed a letter to Obama. It asks him to apologize for U.S. intervention that destabilized Salvador Allende's socialist government in Chile before the 1973 coup that began Gen. Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship.

Protesters are also criticizing a new nuclear energy accord between the U.S. and Chile that focuses on U.S. training of Chilean nuclear engineers.

Senate opposition leader Carolina Toha said Sunday that the deal makes no sense in light of Japan's ongoing nuclear crisis.




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[countmyvote4real]

1. Not going to happen from the *lite administration. n/t

[boppers]

2. 1973? Really.

Wow.

[cstanleytech]

3. Ya, people

keep asking for apologies for the actions that took place decades before when really sometimes the past is best left where it belongs.

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And before someone here tries to blow smoke by asking the answer is no, I am not saying history should be forgetten but rather just dont keep chewing on it like old vomit.