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Originally posted by smooth
How do you claim that this coup against a democratically elected official was the better option than letting the citizens of a sovereign nation elect their own leader?
"The US Central Intelligence Agency, the CIA, has released thousands of secret documents relating to covert operations in Chile before and during the period of military rule there.
Among the 16,000 documents is a CIA memorandum confirming US funded attempts to undermine the democratically elected Marxist president, Salvador Allende, who was overthrown in a bloody coup in 1973."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/1022347.stm
I might as well post some more of the article in case people don't want to click on the link:
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Please reread my post. I did not comment on any of those situations. I merely put them in perspective against the hundreds or thousands of other dealings the US has had.
If you'd like to start a new thread about Allende, feel free. That's not what this thread is about.