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And elsewhere. But he's not entirely to blame. My roommate one year in the grad dorm was a Latin American Studies major. I had no idea that we deposed the duly elected leader of Chile (Allende) and installed a ruthless despot (Pinochet). Because Allende was talking to Castro (note: oversimplified, but that is mostly it).

Yes, we backed Pinochet. I follow an old journo that was one of Allende's translators. He wrote a book 'Pinochet and Me' which was a bestseller for a period. Pinochet murdered or disappeared some 3000 and much more were tortured. And we backed the coup because Allende was a socialist, and he committed suicide

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