From The Progressive
By Matthew Rothschild

The dictator is dead. May he rest in agony.

General Augusto Pinochet crushed the dreams of democratic socialists throughout Latin America, and indeed throughout the world, when he overthrew Chile’s Salvador Allende in 1973.

Pinochet, the brute, proceeded to have his forces kill at least 3,000 Chileans and torture many thousands more. (Shamefully, The New York Times headlined its editorial on Pinochet’s death The Dextrous Dictator. That was in keeping with the Times’s headline on its obituary for Alfredo Stroessner of Paraguay, who died earlier this year. The Times called him Colorful Dictator.)

The U.S. government was behind Pinochet, every bloody step of the way.

When Allende came to power, Henry Kissinger infamously said: I don’t see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist because of the irresponsibility of its own people.

So the CIA helped finance the destabilzation efforts that rocked Allende’s rule.

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