General René Schneider Chereau was one of the first people murdered back then. He was simply an honest traditional general who did not think the military should overthrow civilian government.
The CIA supplied sterile weapons for his assassination.
He was one of many decent people who were murdered, teachers, doctors, journalists, and others. The route of the ballot box was not tried. Constitutional processes were not tried.
Preventing a leftist Marxist from coming to power, by installing a fascist dictatorship is a disgusting idea. Obama sucks in every way, and his motivation is simply to hurt America. But Operation Condor is simply nothing for a conservative to be proud of.
Never said I agreed with the methods used in the Argentinian coup or even the Chilean coup (where a group of us journalists were chosen to meet with the new Chilean ambassador to the US, Mr. Heitmann. When he asked us, mainly conservative writers, what we would suggest the new government do, we unanimously said, “Stop the killings and torture”. He understood that we were against what was happening and despite him being new to national diplomacy, I’m sure he delivered our messages back to Pinochet.
Chilean Gen. Carlos Platts was killed in Argentina. Gen. Schneider was killed in Chile.
I was only writing originally about the military coup in Argentina.
I just wanted to clarify who was killed where.