Mateo
Yes. That’s true. But after that the U.S. has supported dictatorships in Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, Brazil, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Dominicana…
You need to acquaint yourself with history. History is more complex than slogans. Consider the 1943 coup in Argentina, in which Peron was one of the leaders.
“Organizations that favored the Allies were suspended on the charge that they were communistic.”
That was not something the US supported. Peron was subsequently elected president three times and also deposed in a coup in 1955, which further shows the military involvement in Argentine governing. Colonel/President Peron harbored Nazi war criminals, not exactly a pro-American action.
President Carter spoke out against the human rights abuses of the junta. President Reagan’s support of Great Britain in the Falklands War was instrumental in Argentina’s losing that war and the junta’s stepping down.
Consider Chile. Those who consider the democratically elected Allende a victim of the US and CIA have examined the historical record in a very superficial manner. Three weeks before the coup, the also democratically elected House of Deputies passed by 81-47 a resolution titled the “Declaration of the Breakdown of Chile’s Democracy.” An excerpt follows.
“5. That it is a fact that the current government of the Republic, from the beginning, has sought to conquer absolute power with the obvious purpose of subjecting all citizens to the strictest political and economic control by the state and, in this manner, fulfilling the goal of establishing a totalitarian system: the absolute opposite of the representative democracy established by the Constitution;
6. That to achieve this end, the administration has committed not isolated violations of the Constitution and the laws of the land, rather it has made such violations a permanent system of conduct, to such an extreme that it systematically ignores and breaches the proper role of the other branches of government…”
In general and in specific, the resolution could be interpreted as an invitation to a coup. Allende himself called it such. The democratically elected members of the House of Deputies would not have passed such a strongly-worded resolution by a commanding 63- 37% majority if their constituents, the Chilean people, were not also disgusted with the Allende government’s repeated violations of law and democratic procedure.
Your complaint should rest not with the US but with the House of Deputies, who by passing this resolution, supported the subsequent coup.
