re: #489 wlewisiii

Sorry DF but I have to down ding that. They were more interested in murdering people like me and my parents. Blue coller workers who dared form unions were suddenly “terrorists” and executed.

There was never a real communist threat there. Only fascists afraid of freedom.

I don’t agree. The threat in places like Chile was real. Pinochet overreacted savagely and innocents died. But that does not mean he did not face a real threat. But having smashed that threat (and indeed while smashing it), he then used his ‘state of emergency’ to get rid of anyone he viewed as politically opposed to him in any way. That was his crime and his infamy is well-earned.