re: #6 Obdicut

Because the Pinochet regime was a bunch of fascists who routinely killed the opposition, and our support of them was completely morally bankrupt.

I’m going to get downdined a lot for this one: I think supporting Pinochet’s coup was the correct decision. Allende was courting Cuban support and had pushed plans to “introduce socialism at once”. He had to be considered hostile to our interests and we really could not afford Chile as a Soviet satellite. He had to go and his support base had to be destroyed.