Setting the Record Straight On Allende, Once More

Wall Street Journal ^ | April 25, 2003 | MARY ANASTASIA O'GRADY

[Mister Magoo]

At 8:10 a.m. on Sept. 11, 1973 Chilean President Salvador Allende made a radio announcement that the Chilean navy had "isolated" the port city of Valpara

[Cuttnhorse]

I just finished reading Orwell's Homage to Catalonia and recommend to anyone interested in the Spanish civil war.

[Allan]

I did not believe that fascism was conservative value.
Perhaps you are on wrong site.

Ah, that word 'Fascist'!
"X was a Fascist."
Argument over

Standard leftist technique.

Perhaps you are on the wrong site.

[Cuttnhorse]

My friends here in Chile are always telling me that were it not for Pinochet, Chile would be another third-world crap hole with a wrecked economy like all of its neighbors. The biggest grief I get about Pinochet is from North Americans and Europeans that I work with.

[B-Chan]

[headsonpikes]

'Homage to Catalonia'

One of the great books of the 20th Century!

[Mmmike]

Hear, hear!