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Now you guys get to see what Chile would have turned into if it hadn't been for a certain general. Maybe after 50 years of poverty, famine and secret police yo

Now you guys get to see what Chile would have turned into if it hadn't been for a certain general. Maybe after 50 years of poverty, famine and secret police your country will get back to where it started.

tptacek 10y ago
You're being vague here, so I can't be sure what you're implying, but if you're suggesting that Pinochet was a positive thing for Chile, that's a nightmarish thing for anyone to sign their name to. What am I missing?
- ced 10y ago
  I've met some reasonable, leftist-leaning people who lived through the coup, and who told me that "Something had to be done" because the country was in a state of crisis. Of course, the crisis was manufactured, Pinochet committed crimes against humanity, etc. etc. Pinochet won a referendum in 1980 to stay in power. It may have been manipulated, but judging by the number of people I've met longing for the days of Pinochet, I wouldn't be surprised if he had a true majority supporting him. People told me variants of "He kept the trains running on time".
  - tptacek 10y ago
    That's what people said about Mussolini.
- andrenth 10y ago
  You're missing the alternative, which is what Allende was implementing in Chile: expropriation of private property (both farm and industry), hyperinflation, severe devaluation of currency, release of convicted guerrilla terrorists... the list goes on. In other words, what happened in Venezuela.
  - tptacek 10y ago
    I would very much like to believe that you are not saying that Pinochet was better than the alternative. And I too think Venezuela is a disaster.
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- narrator 10y ago
  Is there anything that the Maduro government could do that would make you say, "I wish a right wing coup like the one that happened in Chile had happened instead"? There are, after all, a lot of communist revolutions that turned into complete bloodbaths once the ruling party consolidated its power.
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tptacek 10y ago

You're being vague here, so I can't be sure what you're implying, but if you're suggesting that Pinochet was a positive thing for Chile, that's a nightmarish thing for anyone to sign their name to. What am I missing?

ced 10y ago
I've met some reasonable, leftist-leaning people who lived through the coup, and who told me that "Something had to be done" because the country was in a state of crisis. Of course, the crisis was manufactured, Pinochet committed crimes against humanity, etc. etc. Pinochet won a referendum in 1980 to stay in power. It may have been manipulated, but judging by the number of people I've met longing for the days of Pinochet, I wouldn't be surprised if he had a true majority supporting him. People told me variants of "He kept the trains running on time".
- tptacek 10y ago
  That's what people said about Mussolini.
andrenth 10y ago
You're missing the alternative, which is what Allende was implementing in Chile: expropriation of private property (both farm and industry), hyperinflation, severe devaluation of currency, release of convicted guerrilla terrorists... the list goes on. In other words, what happened in Venezuela.
- tptacek 10y ago
  I would very much like to believe that you are not saying that Pinochet was better than the alternative. And I too think Venezuela is a disaster.
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narrator 10y ago
Is there anything that the Maduro government could do that would make you say, "I wish a right wing coup like the one that happened in Chile had happened instead"? There are, after all, a lot of communist revolutions that turned into complete bloodbaths once the ruling party consolidated its power.
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