Just a quick note that I’ve once again updated my booklog, adding a review of the non fiction book Missing, the story of how Charles Horman, an US citizen got caught up in the 1973 coup in Chile led by Pinochet. He was arrested, killed and very likely tortured because he accidentaly learn of the US support for and involvement with the coup. He was of course not the only one, thousands more, Chileans as well as foreigners would disappear, be tortured and eventually murdered by the brutal Pinochet regime with the full knowledge and often support of various US governments. But at least Chile was out of the hands of that dangerous Marxist, Allende.
For those of you who have wondered in all innocence why the rest of the world seems so suspicious of the US’s “War against Terror”, this is one of the reasons why.
Want more information on Chile? Read this overview of Chile under Allende’s government, take a look at the Chile documentation project, read Christopher Hitchens on Henry Kissinger.
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