Reply #4: Allende was actually a communist, the communist party [View All]

being legal in Chile. The reason the Nixon administration got their underwear into a wad was because the communist party in Chile at that time had ties and funding from the Soviet Union and this is the thing that sent up the red flags, not the socialism.

They didn't understand that, as a legally elected President, Allende wasn't going to turn Chile into Cuba overnight. The overeaction to an imagined threat, as it turned out, caused the nightmare that followed. If Allende had been allowed to finish his term he would have been voted out the next election and all would have been right with the Western Hemisphere. Chileans usually vote social democrats into office anyway, who are just a little right of the communists.

I don't think there will be a problem. Also, with the ME mess, Bushco has it's hands full. Shrub probably thinks Chile is part of Mexico anyway.