Pinochet or Allende?

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Allende very enthusiastically, what could have been of Project Cybersyn is something I’ll never forgive or forget.

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I can never understand why people stress "The DEMOCRATICALLY ELECTED Allende" as a point in Allende's favor when discussing these two, as if state-sponsored theft is suddenly A-OK if a 50.1% majority says it is.

What a poor state of existence the tax evaders, landlords, wage thievers, and pedophile papists would have been through...

Of course, as someone who has previously decried democracy, this type of support would have been expected.

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I can never understand why people stress "The DEMOCRATICALLY ELECTED Allende" as a point in Allende's favor when discussing these two, as if state-sponsored theft is suddenly A-OK if a 50.1% majority says it is.

Whatever you think of Allende’s economic policies, Pinochet murderd thousands.

Yeah I don't trust socialists enough for them to not murder hundreds of thousands. Atleast with Pinochet Ik for a fact what happened. Chile went through a stabilization period with minor- moderate growth with very light economic liberalization in some areas although not others and then it finally ended up becoming the most successful country in South America.

That only happened after the return of democracy, in which leftists won and created a solid welfare state that shone brighter than the oligarchies or dictatorships of the region.