John_Stone Report This Comment
Date: September 11, 2005 04:06PM

September 11, 1973, General Augusto Pinochet, with U.S. backing, and the Chilean military attacked the presidential palace just days after the democratically Salvador Allende ascended to power.

5,000 civilians died in the suppression of the protests against the coup. Another 10,000 died or were 'disappeared' in the years that followed. An additional 27,000 were imprisoned.

Supporters of Pinochet credit him with staving off the beginning of communism, fighting terrorism from radical groups such as MIR, and implementing /neoliberal/ market policies that laid the groundwork for rapid economic growth that continued into the 1990s.

His opponents charge him with destroying Chile's democracy, pursuing a policy of state terrorism in which thousands of opponents were killed and tortured, catering exclusively to private interests, and adopting economic policies that favored the wealthy and hurt the middle- and low-income sectors in Chile.

Anonymous Report This Comment
Date: September 11, 2005 06:46PM

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Anonymous Report This Comment
Date: September 12, 2005 01:47AM

Severina Vuckovic dances almost nude in an J-String and we're not amused !

John_Stone Report This Comment
Date: September 12, 2005 01:53AM

Thanks 6227

mkcerusky Report This Comment
Date: September 12, 2005 10:17AM

...strange, a dictatorship and USA does not intervene to sto Pinochet?...how is it possible? USA is the saver of democracy, it must intervene...

ah, but, what are you saying? ...ah yes, Chile doesn't have as much oil as Iraq!

Anonymous Report This Comment
Date: September 19, 2005 06:34AM

So???????

mkcerusky Report This Comment
Date: September 19, 2005 08:47AM

nothing!

John_Stone Report This Comment
Date: October 09, 2005 12:30PM

Welcome to realpolitik 39180