And for all the neoconservative-underground posters that accuse me of being a "blame america first" type. Shit like this is why a good chunk of the world doesn't trust us. It's also why it's difficult to take our government at it's word when we say our goal is to promote democracy around the world. Sure we want democracy, until you elect someone that doesn't serve the interests of the United States government.

they stand for.. In the meantime more steps need to be taken by Progressives to out the underground money laundering operation of the MIC..

Our goal by the 1% is no longer to promote Democracy but rather to promote profit opportunities by exploiting natural resources of economically distressed Countries..

By the way if you have not seen the oscar winner film “NO” based on the advertising campaign to defeat Pinochet
in the i988 election, you are missing something great..

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On 21 September 1970, Allende had been declared victor of clean elections, but before he took over the presidency, after a fruitless effort by Chilean conservatives and their US allies to have the victory declared unconstitutional, Edward Korry, the US ambassador in Santiago, reported to Henry Kissinger, the foreign strategist of President Richard Nixon: "Once Allende comes to power we shall do all within our power to condemn Chile and the Chileans to utmost deprivation and poverty."

A few days earlier Richard Helms, director of the CIA, had scribbled notes on a meeting in Washington with Nixon, Kissinger and John Mitchell, the US attorney general, where the president demanded a coup. They read: "One in 10 chance perhaps, but save Chile! /worth spending /not concerned risks involved /no involvement of embassy /$10,000,000 available, more if necessary/ best men we have/ game plan/ make the economy scream /48 hours for plan of action."

After Allende's enemies finally claimed their victory against him on 11 September, Chileans protected themselves as best they could while Pinochet and his cohorts, well favoured now by Washington, turned to making themselves fortunes from the privatisation of public services and, quietly, from the trade in cocaine from Bolivia which the US never seemed to want to criticise or attack.

So confident was Pinochet in his protectors in "the free world" that on 17 September 1976 he ordered the killing of Orlando Letelier, Allende's former defence minister, with a bomb planted in his car in Sheridan Circle in the diplomatic heart of Washington itself. Such an atrocity, had it been committed by any Arab or Iranian, or indeed a Muslim of any persuasion, would have brought down instant punishment, or even war. But Pinochet was in no danger. After all, he had been Nixon's man all along.