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Unsealed Documents Show Pinochet 'Directly' Involved in Capitol Hill Assassinations
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027245314
DUmmies really cannot get over with Augusto Pinochet. He is their Boogey Man. :mental:
Octafish (48,983 posts)
Unsealed Documents Show Pinochet 'Directly' Involved in Capitol Hill Assassinations
Pinochet was Poppy's friend.
Unsealed Documents Show Pinochet 'Directly' Involved in Capitol Hill Assassinations
Orlando Letelier and Ronni Karpen Moffitt became 'symbols of the broader human rights catastrophe of the Pinochet dictatorship'
by Sarah Lazare, staff writer
CommonDreams, Oct. 8, 2015
Loved ones have long charged that U.S.-backed dictator Augusto Pinochet had a direct hand in the 1976 assassination of former Chilean diplomat Orlando Letelier and his Institute for Policy Studies colleague Ronni Karpen Moffitt. Now, they may finally be vindicated.
The administration of President Barack Obama on Thursday publicly released documents that appear to show that Pinochet was behind the murders of Letelier and Moffitt, who have become "symbols of the broader human rights catastrophe of the Pinochet dictatorship," Sarah Anderson, director of the Global Economy Project at IPS, told Common Dreams.
The materials, which include CIA papers, were given to Chilean President Michelle Bachelet on Tuesday by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry.
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Letelier’s son, Chilean Senator Juan Pablo Letelier, is one of the few people who has reviewed the trove and confirmed to the Guardian that they conclusively show Pinochet directly ordered the killing. In addition, the documents reportedly reveal that Pinochet had intended to cover up his role in the assassination by killing his spy chief.
"In (Pinochet’s) predisposition to defend his position he planned to eliminate Manuel Contreras to keep him from talking," Senator Letelier told the Mesa Central show on Tele13 Radio.
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http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/10/08/unsealed-documents-show-pinochet-directly-involved-capitol-hill-assassinations
From 2006: Know your BFEE: Los Amigos de Bush
flamingdem (30,766 posts)
1. Wow, finally
Any amigo de bush is an enemigo of just about everyone else.
Why single out Bush?
tk2kewl (14,069 posts)
3. .
(http://www.motherjones.com/files/kissingerclinton.jpg)
I can see why many DUmmies hate Hillary and Bill Clinton. Henry Kissinger is another devil at DU.
FairWinds (548 posts)
6. Re-post from the other thread . .
The vicious Nixon, Kissinger coup that put Pinochet in power . .
took place on 9/11/73
This "Other 9/11" interests US Americans
not in the slightest.
It's OK if our gummint kills the "other" by the thousands,
those lives do not matter.
but it's world-historic if someone does it to us.
that is the evil of modern nationalism.
Veterans For Peace
Salvador Allende had to go. He was violating the law.
pampango (21,049 posts)
8. The stupidity of supporting, even enabling, dictators in pursuit of 'stability', getting 'bad guys'
and profits has always been apparent.
When we discover the details of how evil and corrupt dictators are and the means they employ to stay in power, that stupidity becomes more and more painful.
Would you rather have mass atrocities committed by Communists/Socialists/Fascists? They have killed way more and end in violence.
hifiguy (28,124 posts)
15. War Criminal Kissinger's favorite pet dictator.
Milton Friedman's, too.
So, you have a problem with a nation with a privatized social security system that works well? Chile is also the most stable and prosperous Latin American nation. Chew on that!
Octafish (48,983 posts)
22. The Chicago Boys in Chile: Economic Freedom's Awful Toll
Operating on behalf of Nixon and Wall Street, the CIA and Milton Friedman & Friends perfected the art of turning the screws through austerity in Chile.
"The Chicago Boys in Chile: Economic Freedom's Awful Toll"
Orlando Letelier
August 28, 1976
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The Economic Prescription and Chile's Reality
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These are the basic principles of the economic model offered by Friedman and his followers and adopted by the Chilean junta: that the only possible framework for economic development is one within which the private sector can freely operate; that private enterprise is the most efficient form of economic organization and that, therefore, the private sector should be the predominant factor in the economy. Prices should fluctuate freely in accordance with the laws of competition. Inflation, the worst enemy of economic progress, is the direct result of monetary expansion and can be eliminated only by a drastic reduction of government spending.
Except in present-day Chile, no government in the world gives private enterprise an absolutely free hand. That is so because every economist (except Friedman and his followers) has known for decades that, in the real life of capitalism, there is no such thing as the perfect competition described by classical liberal economists. In March 1975, in Santiago, a newsman dared suggest to Friedman that even in more advanced capitalist countries, as for example the United States, the government applies various types of controls on the economy. Mr. Friedman answered: I have always been against it, I don't approve of them. I believe we should not apply them. I am against economic intervention by the government, in my own country, as well as in Chile or anywhere else (Que Pasa, Chilean weekly, April 3, 1975).
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A Rationale tor Power
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Until September 11, 1973, the date of the coup, Chilean society had been characterized by the increasing participation of the working class and its political parties in economic and social decision making. Since about 1900, employing the mechanisms of representative democracy, workers had steadily gained new economic, social and political power. The election of Salvador Allende as President of Chile was the culmination of this process. For the first time in history a society attempted to build socialism by peaceful means. During Allende's time in office, there was a marked improvement in the conditions of employment, health, housing, land tenure and education of the masses. And as this occurred, the privileged domestic groups and the dominant foreign interests perceived themselves to be seriously threatened.
Despite strong financial and political pressure from abroad and efforts to manipulate the attitudes of the middle class by propaganda, popular support for the Allende government increased significantly between 1970 and 1973. In March 1973, only five months before the military coup, there were Congressional elections in Chile. The political parties of the Popular Unity increased their share of the votes by more than 7 percentage points over their totals in the Presidential election of 1970. This was the first time in Chilean history that the political parties supporting the administration in power gained votes during a midterm election. The trend convinced the national bourgeoisie and its foreign supporters that they would be unable to recoup their privileges through the democratic process. That is why they resolved to destroy the democratic system and the institutions of the state, and, through an alliance with the military, to seize power by force.
In such a context, concentration of wealth is no accident, but a rule; it is not the marginal outcome of a difficult situation -- as they would like the world to believe -- but the base for a social project; it is not an economic liability but a temporary political success. Their real failure is not their apparent inability to redistribute wealth or to generate a more even path of development (these are not their priorities) but their inability to convince the majority of Chileans that their policies are reasonable and necessary. In short, they have failed to destroy the consciousness of the Chilean people. The economic plan has had to be enforced, and in the Chilean context that could be done only by the killing of thousands, the establishment of concentration camps all over the country, the jailing of more than 100,000 persons in three years, the closing of trade unions and neighbourhood organizations, and the prohibition of all political activities and all forms of free expression.
While the Chicago boys have provided an appearance of technical respectability to the laissez-faire dreams and political greed of the old landowning oligarchy and upper bourgeoisie of monopolists and financial speculators, the military has applied the brutal force required to achieve those goals. Repression for the majorities and economic freedom for small privileged groups are in Chile two sides of the same coin.
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http://www.ditext.com/letelier/chicago.html
Three weeks after this was published in The Nation (Aug. 28, 1976), Orlando Letelier was assassinated by a car bomb in Washington, D.C. Thank you for remembering, lostnfound.
There you go again! Whining about something from a long time ago. Chile is better off today.
olddots (8,684 posts)
44. Laurie Berrenson gets out of prison November 15th.
What our empire did in South and Central America will never be forgotten or forgiven .
Too bad for the commies who got killed. They were playing with fire. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
The left cannot get over it with Anti-Communism outside of America. Well, that is just too bad for them. They were put into the ground or ended up as fish food.
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"Capitol Hill???" Kind of a stretch.