Remembering another 9/11

From: Human Events | Date: September 15, 2003| Author: Whelan, James R | Copyright information

Allende's 1973 Ouster Halted Communist Rule in Chile

Henry Kissinger once quipped that Chile was a dagger pointed straight at the heart of Antarctica. That quip melted in the white heat of another 9/11-Sept. 11, 1973, when the Chilean military ousted from power the first Marxist-Leninist regime to reach power via the ballot box.

The revolution that put an end to the government of Salvador Allende Gossens would become the most successful in the history of Latin America.

It...

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