The Chile Coup: The U.S. Hand by Peter Kornbluh iF magazine, November / December 1998 Twenty-five years ago, tanks rumbled through the streets of Chile, terrified civilians were lined up before firing squads at the National Stadium, the elected president was dead. Yet, at Richard Nixon's White House, the events were a cause for celebration, a culmination of three years of covert operations, ...

THE CHILEAN ELECTORAL SYSTEM BEFORE 1973 Chamber of Deputies (Lower House) Before 1973, Chile was divided in 29 electoral constituencies for the lower house elections. Each of the then existing 25 provinces represented one multi-seat constituency, with two exceptions: the province of Santiago was divided into four constituencies and uble was divided into two. Each constituency returned a ...

Chile 1964-1973 A hammer and sickle stamped on your child's forehead excerpted from the book Killing Hope by William Blum When Salvador Allende, a committed Marxist, came within three percent of winning the Chilean presidency in 1958, the United States decided that the next election, in 1964, could not be left in the hands of providence, or democracy. Washington took it all very gravely. At the ...

Chile from the book The CIAs Greatest Hits by Mark Zapezauer In 1973, the CIA destroyed the oldest functioning democracy in South America. Twenty years later, the agency is still trying to deny its involvement. The CIA intervened massively in Chile's 1958 and 1964 elections. In 1970, its fears were realized-the socialist candidate, a physician named Salvador Allende, was elected president.

Banishing The Myths The stereotypes that Pinochet generated after his coup still haunt the political future of Latin America ...