There is no real difference in the Chilean junta mass murders, and the ones perpetrated by Castro and Che when they took over. Even the number of murders are somewhat roughly similar.
Hell, the junta even did book burnings in Chile.
Wrong: The Chilean coup and junta is officially charged with a base of 3,500 killings and possibly up to 8,000 or so including “disappearances”. It all depends on what sources you look at.
Castro and Che (Che personally tortured and killed hundreds of Cuban citizens including former freedom fighters. He reportedly used a drill and/or pliers to torture his victims before he shot them in the head. My late friend’s wife lost her freedom fighter father and uncle to Castro’s firing squads.
For you Cuban history followers, Maria was the wife of the late US diplomat Paul Bethel, who helped Castro in the early days before finding out that he was helping a communist revolution. Paul was a friend of mine along with Prof. Herman Portell-Villa, a well known Cuban teacher with whom I worked at the American Security Council, Radio Show).
Nobody knows how many people Che killed in Angola or Bolivia or even Argentina.
The numbers of Chile never got close to “roughly similar” re how many victims there were of the Cuban Communists.
If you want to read how the Communists plotted to takeover Guatemala in the 50’s, from a great American correspondent down there, read Daniel James’ book (possibly entitled Red Coup in Guatemala but I’m not sure).
He got ahold of Communist Party internal documents and published them in his book. They told the real story, just as the White Paper on Chile did about Allende, his private army, his arming of communist youth groups, and Soviet Bloc secret arms aid and training for his Socialist Party (with photos).
The elected president of Guatemala Arbenz, was a Communist-controlled fool and puppet and was displaced by only a few hundred Guatemalans (led by Castillo Armas (spelling?), a few American advisors (and possibly Two Gun Puerrifoy).
I haven’t read that book in many decades but just Google Daniel James and Guatemala, and you will find all his books on Latin America. He might be in Wikipedia.com.
I used to have lunch with him in the McDowell Luncheon Group, one of the greatest assemblies of freedom-fighters in the world at the Emerald restaurant in DC.
That was in the late 60’s and early 70’s so I’m a little slow on recalling book titles from back then.