An Open Letter to Henry Kissinger from One of Pinochet's Political Prisoners

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...An open letter to Henry Kissinger

I was not an "irresponsible" Chilean sir, but I did pay the heavy price of your words.

Mr. Henry Kissinger
Kissinger Associates.
New York

I do remember your reprimand to Chileans when they elected socialist Salvador Allende in 1970: "We cannot allow a country to go Marxist just because its people are irresponsible"

Although we were used to this kind of rhetoric coming out from the White House those years, we couldn't imagine that those opprobrious words of yours would eventually seal the future of Chile in one of the most horrendous episodes in Latin America's history. Yes, I can say we underestimated you sir.

Bombs falling from the skies, towers and buildings destroyed, hundreds of people butchered. Thousands missing and soccer stadiums converted into concentrations camps. Do you remember this, your own 9/11?

Since day one; since before Allende was ratified by Chilean parliament as its legitimate President, you, Secretary of Sate and National Security Advisor, Mr. Kissinger, were plotting the overthrow of Allende. You conjured up the assassination of General Rene Schneider -- who supported the Chilean Constitution -- to provoke an early military coup.

http://www.counterpunch.org/torres12122006.html

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1. Very powerful.

Thanks for posting!

[Say_What]

3. Plenty on Google, but here's one: The Dark Shadow of George Shultz

I didn't know that Shultz had been economics professor at University of Chicago and later dean of its business school.

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...Also, as La Rouche points out, " . . . Even more significant is the role of George Shultz. Shultz has been there every step of the way for the Chile project. From the Nixon Administration, he helped orchestrate the Pinochet coup {with his friend Henry Kissinger}. And he justified it on the basis of the University of Chicago economic policies, of which he is a leading light."

Schultz soft-peddles his actions in his autobiography: "General Augusto Pinochet came to power, bringing dictatorship and repression to the political scene. But he did restore prosperity to the economy. Chileans trained in free-market economics at the University of Chicago applied the ideas of classical economics, opening the Chilean economy to international competition, eliminating subsidies, relying on market signals to direct investment, seeking fiscal balance and a stable monetary policy. These policies worked." Worked how, and at what cost?

LaRouche also points out that "from his role as an advisor to the incoming Reagan Administration in 1981, Shultz visited Piñera and asked the former Chilean Labor Minister to provide him with a one-page memo on the pension privatization plan, for Shultz to try to sell the scam to Reagan. Shultz's Chicago Boys in Chile had barely implemented social security privatization there, and Shultz was already trying to ram it down the throat of the U.S.—23 years ago!"

Remember that it was also Shultz who worked from 1971–73 with Nixon to unpeg the dollar from the gold-reserve system towards the floating-exchange that has gone hand in hand with financial insecurity and globalism. Treasury Secretary Schulz hammered the coffin nails into Roosevelt’s protective gold standard in 1973 at an International Monetary Fund meeting, two and a half weeks after Pinochet’s coup gave birth to Shultz’s "Chile model of fascist economics for international export."

Today, Shultz is one of the senior luminaries of the George W. Bush Administration. It is not surprising he’s still pushing to get his policies through, personally and through the Cato Institute, which has provided abundant financing for numerous "Social Security crisis" campaigns. These included the writing of books, informational materials, and having Leanne Abdnor, Cato stringer and VP for External Affairs from 1995 through 1998, "educate" Congressional members and staff on the virtues of personal retirement accounts in Social Security reform.

http://www.onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/printer_28.shtml



(R Row, from front to rear) Milton Friedman, George Shultz, Pres. Ronald Reagan, Arthur Burns, William Simon and Walter Wriston & unknown at a meeting of White House economic advisers.

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2. Wasn't Pinochet George Schult's Boy Wonder Dictator pick?

[Judi Lynn]

4. Great public message to Kissinger. Sure hope he'll see it somewhere.

I've never heard anything uglier than his nasty remark that the issues are too important to let Chileans vote for themselves, and that they were irresponsible.

What part of "IT'S THEIR COUNTRY" can't he grasp? It's really time to see these idiots learn what most civilized people else know as children: common decency, respect of others' rights.

Author states a powerful truth to Kissinger: "I can say something you cannot: my hands are clean."