John Perkins on Salvador Allende
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“In Chile, a CIA-supported coup helped put Gen. Augusto Pinochet in power from 1973 to 1990.”
“I knew what none of them could possibly know, that the corporatocracy, its band of EHMs [economic hitmen), and the jackals waiting in the background would never allow the little guys to gain control. I only had to draw upon the examples of Arbenz and Mossadegh — and more recently, upon the 1973 CIA overthrow of Chile's democratically elected president, Salvador Allende.”