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| | US played key role in 1973 Chilean coup: Can Henry Kissinger be extradited? |
 | | Pinochet's seizure of power on September 11, 1973 was the product of a protracted US campaign of political manipulation and destabilization in Chile. |
 | | Allende and his Stalinist backers in the Chilean Communist Party spent the next three years restraining, discouraging and disorienting the mass movement, blocking any decisive challenge to the Chilean ruling class and American imperialism, while the right-wing and fascist elements prepared their counterattack. |
 | | On September 10, 1973, the day before the junta struck, the names of 3,000 high-level and 20,000 mid-level leaders of popular organizations--trade unions, student groups, tenants' groups, peasant committees, civil rights and civil liberties groups, left-wing political parties--were distributed to the death squads. |
| www.wsws.org /news/1998/oct1998/kis-o21.shtml (893 words) |
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