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My point is that the historical path was not imposed on them. People of south America are not blind children incapable of making decisions for themselves. Allende was a bad politician who ran his country into the ground and discovered the consequences of that

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I provide reporting about how the CIA manipulated the Chilean economy to create the perception that Allende was a bad politician.

In response you simply assert that Allende was a bad politician.

Do you see the problem?

I think the Americanized world will not survive America's decline, and this will soon become indisputable proof that it was America forcing its model onto others rather than anything organic.

If the CIA helped labor unions, they didn't cause the problem. Bad socialist economics did, and the US exacerbated the political crisis. Allende would've crashed and burned (deservedly) without US intervention. I'm not sure I see the merit in the argument that the US broke the leftist Chilean economy by supporting the workers ability to strike... if anything that aligns us closer with the left than Allende.

If you want to believe this then that's on you.

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