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Posted on 11/25/2019 7:49:12 PM PST by jfd1776
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September 11, 1973 is one of those days that I remember where I was and what I was doing due to a major news event. I was backing my 1965 Chevy Impala out of a parking lot at the University of Southern California when I heard on the radio that Pinochet had overthrown Salvador Allende. I was overjoyed and saw the event as a major turning point in the Cold War.
The Left hates Gen Pinochet to this day (remember when they had him, an Argentine Senator, detained for a year in Britain 20 years ago on the basis of a warrant issued by a Spanish judge - the bastards).
They hate him BECAUSE he was the first leader in the post-war era to show that the “inevitable scientific progress of Marxism-Leninism aka ‘communism’” COULD BE STOPPED and reversed.
He has always been one of my all-time heroes for this reason. He was - quite literally - the savior of Argentine sovereignty and culture, not to mention economy, which he transformed into the most advanced and successful in Latin America.
Viva Pinochet. Lots of leftist scum in this country need some helicopter rides as well.
Chile
Even as a teenager listening to The Joshua Tree, I laughed at Bono and his lionization of commie puke Victor Jara.
They seem to be having a few hiccups at present.
CHILE CHILE - I meant to type ‘CHILE’ !!! *LOL*
Lord, I HATE the fact we can’t edit our posts here on FR after we hit “post”. My fingers tend to run ahead of my mental review process!
Of course, I was THINKING “CHILE”, but for some unknown reason I slipped ‘over the border’ while typing my post. (Probably because the father of one of my oldest friends is an Argentine).
*Mea Culpa*!!
Remembering a great leader on the 104th anniversary of his birth. Viva Pinochet !
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It has happened to all of us.
Allende was allowed to take the Presidency with conditions and had violated them. The Chilean legislature and Supreme Court had already declared Allende’s Marxism unconstitutional.
Pinochet was reluctant to lead the coup, he had to be asked to do so by members of the legislature. Chile, up to that point, had the longest history of elected governments with peaceful power handovers in South America. They were very proud of that record. It is thought that he only acted after being shown proof of the planed massacre. Cuban and other foreign troops were in the country ready to do a hard takeover. There was going to be a coup, the only question was who would lead it, the Chilean military or Allende.
The legislature was disbanded but the courts continued after the coup and operated fairly independently.
There was an election in 1980 on a rewritten constitution and to say yes or no to Pinochet having a eight year term as president. He won.
In 1988 there was a second election. He lost that one by about a percentage point. He stepped down.
That picture should be posted in all the major Art Galleries. The kid (I know it is a gag) deserved an A+.
Something tells me that if we could just get rid of 3 million in our jails we could save $80 billion for starters. Banish them to a gulf in Siberia where they can be put to work to serve out their terms. Next build the wall.
“Think of the world of 1973, and consider the choices made by Central and South American leaders in those days. Soviet Communism had already murdered tens of millions of its own. The killing fields of Cambodia were still fresh in everyone’s mind”
Don’t get me wrong, I LOVE PINOCHET! I researched him in college because the Commies were screaming about him taking over. What I found then was that the Allende and his Commies were seizing private property left and right, particularly some very large foreign companies, including the one that ran their huge copper mine. That may have tipped it...you want to be a Communist and left alone, don’t be stealing from foreign companies.
Having said that, the “Killing Fields” didn’t start until 1975 (I remember that too)...the author could have looked it up.
Another cia intervention bump. We certainly need more deep state helping out the world. The date has not lost its irony over time.
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