On 11 September 1973, the military moved to oust Allende in a coup d’état supported by the CIA, which initially denied the allegations. In 2000, the CIA admitted its role in the 1970 kidnapping of a top general who had refused to use the army to stop Allende’s inauguration. 2023 declassified documents showed that Richard Nixon and the United States government, which had branded Allende as a dangerous communist, were aware of the 1973 Chilean coup d’état and its plans to overthrow Allende’s democratically-elected government.
And to tack onto that, it’s part of the broader Operation Condor.
Operation Condor (Spanish: Operación Cóndor, also known as Plan Cóndor; Portuguese: Operação Condor) was a United States-backed campaign of political repression and state terrorism involving intelligence operations, CIA-backed coup d’états, as well as assassinations of left-wing socialist leaders in South America from 1968 to 1989.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvador_Allende?wprov=sfla1
Here, educate yourself.
And to tack onto that, it’s part of the broader Operation Condor.
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