Why backing coups in Latin America is a bad idea
Odious though Venezuela’s regime may be, America should have nothing to do with putsch plotters
SEPTEMBER 11th is best known for al-Qaeda’s attack on the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon in 2001. But in Latin America the date is remembered for another act of villainy. On that day in 1973 General Augusto Pinochet staged a military coup against the chaotic Socialist government of Salvador Allende in Chile.
This article appeared in the The Americas section of the print edition under the headline “Who will rid us of this irksome regime?”
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