The conflicted alliance which brutally devastated Chile
The conflicted alliance which brutally devastated Chile
Jun Monday 29th 2015
posted by Morning Star in Arts
Reagan and Pinochet: The Struggle Over US Policy Towards Chile by M Morley and C McGillon (Cambridge University Press, £22.99)
IT IS one of the real tragedies of history that unpalatable truths invariably only come out many years after the events when we can do little about them.
This is certainly true of the criminal and blatant involvement of the US in the affairs of Chile that was instrumental in ousting a democratically elected socialist president and for the loss of the lives of many wonderful people.
In this book, the first comprehensive study of the Reagan administration’s policy towards Chile, the authors state: “During the first three decades of the 20th century, the United States transformed itself from a dominant regional into a competitive global power, all the while projecting its power abroad driven less by a desire ‘to make the world a safer place for democracy’ than to put down nationalist threats to an expanding US capital and commerce.” Chile came into that category.
Returning from leave a few days after president Allende’s 1970 election victory, a US official said that the White House “had gone ape. They were frantic, beside themselves.”
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http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/a-2fbc-The-conflicted-alliance-which-brutally-devastated-Chile#.VZCcmGdRGWw
