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You give the CIA too much credit. Much of the armed forces and the civilian populace hated Allende and his policies. Pinochet was an opportunist who jumped on

You give the CIA too much credit. Much of the armed forces and the civilian populace hated Allende and his policies. Pinochet was an opportunist who jumped on the bandwagon when it was already in motion. The CIA had it easy. In South Vietnam, under more adverse conditions, the CIA failed miserably.

monocasa 7y ago
Nixon was extremely concerned about Chile, had constant updates from, and made it a high level goal of his presidency to overthrow Allende. The trashman strike was for sure CIA organized for instance. And it's a lot easier for your propaganda to take when your troops aren't committing massacres in the country like in Vietnam.
- NaggingGranpa 7y ago
  Nixon also made Vietnamization a high level goal of his presidency. How did that work out? Propaganda? Latin America is based on caste. If your "revolution" is based on stealing from the Spanish-blooded landowners to feed Amerindian losers who breed like rabbits, you will get opposition. Not much propaganda needed. And when the landowners send their sons to the army officer corps, you will have opposition with actual teeth.
  - DoctorNick 7y ago
    >Propaganda? Latin America is based on caste. If your "revolution" is based on stealing from the Spanish-blooded landowners to feed Amerindian losers who breed like rabbits, you will get opposition. Pretty clear what your views are.
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  - eirini1 7y ago
    > If your "revolution" is based on stealing from the Spanish-blooded landowners to feed Amerindian losers who breed like rabbits, you will get opposition. this is some real mask-off shit.
    - monocasa 7y ago
      For real. Keep this kind of stuff in mind when watching what's going on in Chile and Bolivia today. Or anytime someone from Miami says that every Cuban they know hates Castro (or now Diez-Canel) and we should help get rid of him.
      - stebann 7y ago
        They try, but REVOLUTION is though and lives!
    - NaggingGranpa 7y ago
      English, please.
  - dang 7y ago
    We've banned this account.
DoctorNick 7y ago
>Much of the armed forces and the civilian populace hated Allende and his policies. No, actually, he was quite popular[1]: >Between 1970 and 1973, the Unidad Popular (Popular Unity)—the coalition of parties backing Allende—actually increased its vote, a growing popularity which in itself casts some doubt on the widely spread tales of economic disaster wrought by the government. In the last significant election, a fierce electoral battle for Congress in March 1973, the Unidad Popular increased its share of the vote to 44 percent. The rest of the vote was split among the several other parties, which at that time functioned freely and openly in the Chilean tradition. The 800,000 who greeted the President on September 4 constituted nearly one-tenth of the national population, the largest political rally ever held in Chile. It was the upper classes that hated him, the people who had been getting fat off the people for the past several decades and stood the most to lose from his presidency. [1]: https://www.thenation.com/article/true-verdict-allende/ https://www.thenation.com/article/true-verdict-allende/
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monocasa 7y ago

Nixon was extremely concerned about Chile, had constant updates from, and made it a high level goal of his presidency to overthrow Allende. The trashman strike was for sure CIA organized for instance. And it's a lot easier for your propaganda to take when your troops aren't committing massacres in the country like in Vietnam.

NaggingGranpa 7y ago
Nixon also made Vietnamization a high level goal of his presidency. How did that work out? Propaganda? Latin America is based on caste. If your "revolution" is based on stealing from the Spanish-blooded landowners to feed Amerindian losers who breed like rabbits, you will get opposition. Not much propaganda needed. And when the landowners send their sons to the army officer corps, you will have opposition with actual teeth.
- DoctorNick 7y ago
  >Propaganda? Latin America is based on caste. If your "revolution" is based on stealing from the Spanish-blooded landowners to feed Amerindian losers who breed like rabbits, you will get opposition. Pretty clear what your views are.
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- eirini1 7y ago
  > If your "revolution" is based on stealing from the Spanish-blooded landowners to feed Amerindian losers who breed like rabbits, you will get opposition. this is some real mask-off shit.
  - monocasa 7y ago
    For real. Keep this kind of stuff in mind when watching what's going on in Chile and Bolivia today. Or anytime someone from Miami says that every Cuban they know hates Castro (or now Diez-Canel) and we should help get rid of him.
    - stebann 7y ago
      They try, but REVOLUTION is though and lives!
  - NaggingGranpa 7y ago
    English, please.
- dang 7y ago
  We've banned this account.

DoctorNick 7y ago

>Much of the armed forces and the civilian populace hated Allende and his policies. No, actually, he was quite popular[1]: >Between 1970 and 1973, the Unidad Popular (Popular Unity)—the coalition of parties backing Allende—actually increased its vote, a growing popularity which in itself casts some doubt on the widely spread tales of economic disaster wrought by the government. In the last significant election, a fierce electoral battle for Congress in March 1973, the Unidad Popular increased its share of the vote to 44 percent. The rest of the vote was split among the several other parties, which at that time functioned freely and openly in the Chilean tradition. The 800,000 who greeted the President on September 4 constituted nearly one-tenth of the national population, the largest political rally ever held in Chile. It was the upper classes that hated him, the people who had been getting fat off the people for the past several decades and stood the most to lose from his presidency. [1]: https://www.thenation.com/article/true-verdict-allende/ https://www.thenation.com/article/true-verdict-allende/

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