> I think it's more nuanced. Pinochet was a cruel dictator but he implemented necessary market reforms to fix the Marxist rules of Allende. He goes in the box w

> I think it's more nuanced. Pinochet was a cruel dictator but he implemented necessary market reforms to fix the Marxist rules of Allende. He goes in the box with other "controversial, but necessary" figures like Lee Kuan Yew and Park Chung Hee. No. Pinochet "fixed" nothing, his government was one of cronyism and his "miracle" deepened injustice and inequality in Chile. > And the US did not overthrow Allende. To allege so is to deprive Chileans of any kind of political agency The US absolutely abetted and prepared the coup, as part of Cold War thinking. This has been declassified and is well known. I guess you want to live in a post-truth world. It's unfortunate that reality doesn't agree with what your spouting.