Yes - Pinochet, in his capacity as commander in chief of the military. Frei instructed his supporters specifically to seek military intervention months before the military was even considering it.
All you have are some vague anti-Allende statements that appeal to an army not yet commanded by Pinochet.
Actually there are several very specific statements on record calling for and approving of military action.
"The country has no way out other than a military government. The world does not know that Chilean Marxism had at its disposal arms superior in number and quality to that of the Chilean Army. The Armed Forces were called,and they complied with a legal obligation, because the executive and judiciary, the Congress and the Supreme Court, had all publicly denounced the presidency and its regime for destroying the Constitution." - Frei, statement to the Spanish media, October 10, 1973 Notice his precise language. He specifically attributes the destruction of the Constitution to Allende, not Pinochet. Pinochet's response, he said, was a "legal obligation" made specifically because Allende destroyed the constitution. And once again, I'll defer to Frei's unquestioned expertise on what was legal or not in Chile over your own.
Please explain how this speaks to your claim (#231) that before the coup 1) Frei believed that Pinochet intended to preserve the constitution and 2) expressed those beliefs either publicly or privately.
Actually there are several very specific statements on record calling for and approving of military action.
If you have any record of Frei -- before the coup -- voicing his opinion that Augusto Pinochet intended to preserve the constitution, please let us know.
He specifically attributes the destruction of the Constitution to Allende, not Pinochet. Pinochet's response, he said, was a "legal obligation" made specifically because Allende destroyed the constitution. And once again, I'll defer to Frei's unquestioned expertise on what was legal or not in Chile over your own.
And once again, I'll take any political statements with a grain of salt when they are uttered under a military dictatorship that did not gurantee freedom of speech and had a history of killing and torturing its political opponents.