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The Other 9/11: Salvador Allende and Chile
- Georgelemental 3y agohttps://www.wsj.com/articles/chiles-allende-myth-lives-on-americas-military-coup-socialist-extremists-communist-dictatorship-204bb3c8 https://www.wsj.com/articles/chiles-allende-myth-lives-on-am...
- laverya 3y agohttps://archive.ph/7JLzW https://archive.ph/7JLzW > In May 1973 the Supreme Court accused the government of flouting judicial decisions and the law. The medical and bar associations took a similar stance. On Aug. 22 the lower house of the Chilean Congress passed a resolution denouncing Allende’s power grab and calling on the military to uphold its oath to the constitution. Not exactly the sort of coup that's normally portrayed. Allende getting a lower fraction of the vote than Hitler is also cute. (Slightly less than 37 percent vs slightly more than 37)
- thirdplace_ 3y agoseems kinda biased. not a single bad word of Allende's Chile.
- defrost 3y agoNo one talks about the reduction in inflation, increases in real wages, improved public transport, and free school meals under Allende, that's true. They just seem to focus on the fun times of a CIA assisted military dictatorship, the secret killings, and all that nonsense that comes with wiping out a democracy for nigh on two decades.. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvador_Allende#Presidency https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvador_Allende#Presidency