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Allende was unacceptable to the US before he even became president, so the claim that he was deposed due to your so called "abuses of power" is absurd on its fa

Allende was unacceptable to the US before he even became president, so the claim that he was deposed due to your so called "abuses of power" is absurd on its face - he can't possibly have a abused power before taking power. Declassified documents prove indisputably that the US plotted his removal before he even took office: "Recent documents declassified under the Clinton administration's Chile Declassification Project show that the United States government and the CIA sought the overthrow of Allende in 1970 immediately before he took office ("Project FUBELT"). Many documents regarding the U.S. intervention in Chile remain classified." from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvador_Allende http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvador_Allende

spindritf 14y ago
> he can't possibly have a abused power before taking power He came into office in '70, and the coup was in '73. From the very link you posted: "29th President of Chile In office 4 November 1970 – 11 September 1973." What CIA planned doesn't take precedence over what actually happened.
- wnight 14y ago
  Yes. By the time they enacted the plan they had an excuse, but they had planned to depose him before they had evidence.
guylhem 14y ago
Was the whole supreme court of Chile on the CIA payroll, to declare the following UNANIMOUSLY: On May 26, 1973, the Supreme Court of Chile unanimously denounced the Allende government's disruption of the legality of the nation in its failure to uphold judicial decisions, because of its continual refusal to permit police execution of judicial decisions contrary to the government's own measures. Could it be possible that the CIA wanted to remove him as soon as he got elected AND that also and independently he abused power so much as to lead to this declaration by the supreme court? I tend to respect each country legislative body - especially at the higher level. More recently, even Zimbabwe supremes denounced the abuse until they resigned - see http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/1850771.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/1850771.stm

spindritf 14y ago

> he can't possibly have a abused power before taking power He came into office in '70, and the coup was in '73. From the very link you posted: "29th President of Chile In office 4 November 1970 – 11 September 1973." What CIA planned doesn't take precedence over what actually happened.

wnight 14y ago
Yes. By the time they enacted the plan they had an excuse, but they had planned to depose him before they had evidence.

guylhem 14y ago

Was the whole supreme court of Chile on the CIA payroll, to declare the following UNANIMOUSLY: On May 26, 1973, the Supreme Court of Chile unanimously denounced the Allende government's disruption of the legality of the nation in its failure to uphold judicial decisions, because of its continual refusal to permit police execution of judicial decisions contrary to the government's own measures. Could it be possible that the CIA wanted to remove him as soon as he got elected AND that also and independently he abused power so much as to lead to this declaration by the supreme court? I tend to respect each country legislative body - especially at the higher level. More recently, even Zimbabwe supremes denounced the abuse until they resigned - see http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/1850771.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/1850771.stm