9/11/1973 "Chile had no experience with this kind of violence, it had enjoyed 160 years of peaceful

[patrice]

democratic rule, the past 41 uninterrupted....

In the years leading up to the coup, U.S. trainers, many from the CIA, had whipped the Chilean military into an anti-Communist frenzy, presuading them that socialists were defacto Russian spies, a force alien to Chilean society - a homegrown 'enemy within'....

With Allende dead, his cabinet in captivity and no mass resistance in evidence, the junta's grand battle was over by mid-afternoon....

Even though Pinochet's battle was one-sided, its effects were as real as any civil war or foreign invasion: in all, more than 3,200 people were disappeared or executed, at least 80,000 were imprisoned, and 200,000 fled the country for political reasons."

The date? September 11th, 1973

http://www.naomiklein.org/shock-doctrine

[BridgeTheGap]

1. What a black mark on U.S. history...screw Kissinger & Nixon!!! n.t

[patrice]

2. And Milton Friedman and his "Chicago Boys"

[Wilber_Stool]

3. Now you know why Chicago

would rather be associated with Capone than Friedman.