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2003-12-12 Latin America

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Posted by Steve White 2003-12-12 1:41:56 AM|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 It still suprises me that the Left can't let go of what happened in Chile. Lots of bad s*** was happening all across Latin America around that time (not to mention Eastern Europe and SE Asia), but Chile came out of the Pinochet years as a prosperous civil society, and that I suspect is the real sin in the eyes of the Left.

For what its worth, I was a politically aware teenager at the time and clearly recall the Left's attitude of 'history in on our side'. Pinochet's coup occured at the highwater mark of the Left's influence and it represented a turning point and the start of their decline into todays impotent fury.

In a sense the Pinochet regime is a scapegoat for the Left's historic failure. And this I suspect is the reason they can't let go of what happened in Chile.

Posted by phil_b 2003-12-12 4:50:37 AM|| 2003-12-12 4:50:37 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 "It still suprises me that the Left can't let go of ... Chile." Why surprise? The Left still hasn't let go of ~~traitor and Soviet spy~~ Julius Rosenburg.

Posted by Glenn (not Reynolds) 2003-12-12 3:00:53 PM|| 2003-12-12 3:00:53 PM|| Front Page Top

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