[Kermit]

Pinochet saved Chile. If the coup had never happened, there wouldn't be any protests allowed. Now, it's another question, whether the US/CIA should've been involved. I say no. We can't save other countries, we have to leave to the patriots in those countries to save them. US involvement almost always makes things worse.

[gfactor]

Pinochet saved Chile. If the coup had never happened, there wouldn't be any protests allowed

Are you aware of the vibrancy of chile's opposition (ie, the side that carried out the coup) before the coup? are you aware of the intense breadth of chilean politics before the coup? I've often heard it here on FR that Allende only "pretended to allow opposition". I hope you're not coming from that angle, because the record is clearly against it. Chile was a less homogenous political society than pretty much all of the current western democracies. before the coup that is.