Why the MIT celebrates the disastrous Allende revolution is laughable!
Among other things President Allende wanted to nationalize major industries. His party only won less than 37% of the votes. Ties with Cuba and the Soviet Union and so on.
The Pinochet revolution that followed was a lot better! Yes, Pinochet was one of those infamous Latin American military dictators who usurped power by a coup, but ...
"It is widely recognized that the period in the early 1970s in which Salvador Allende was president of Chile was a moment of political innovation [???], when people thought they could bring about socialist transformation peacefully and within existing democratic institutions. ..."
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