By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 6 March 2024
Tag Archives: Salvador Allende
The CIA: In Theory and In Practice
By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 31 December 2023
The 1954 Coup in Guatemala: A More Interesting Story Than American “Economic Imperialism”
By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 30 November 2023
“The American Coup in Chile”: A Myth That Will Never Die
By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 23 September 2023
When Kissinger Met Pinochet
By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 14 January 2021
The first time U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger met Chile’s ruler, General Augusto Pinochet, was at a meeting of the Organisation of American States (OAS) in Santiago on 8 June 1976. Kissinger had deliberately kept a public distance from Pinochet because of the myth—which will never die—that he and President Richard Nixon orchestrated the coup d’état that brought Pinochet to power in September 1973. But with the OAS meeting in Pinochet’s capital city, Kissinger finally had to meet Pinochet. Kissinger’s sent two very distinct messages to Pinochet, one public, one private. Continue reading