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Salvador Allende human rights record?
I can't find any evidence of Allende violating any human rights. I have read a great deal of criticisms regarding his economic policies and of him serving his own political interests but nothing about him being despotic or cruel. I ask because I was talking to a guy who insisted that Allende was as cruel as Pinochet. Can anyone shed some light please?
Btw I am only asking so I can tell the guy who said that Allende was as cruel as Pinochet that he is wrong,just wanted to be sure before I defended Allende.
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- DavidLv 41 decade agoFavorite Answer
Seriously Pinochet put thousands of people in Santiago stadium and had them all executed one after the other in front of each other. His troops broke the hands of the famous guitarist Victor Jara and then mocked him by asking him to play his guitar (as it happens he song a rebel song called we will win) then they machine gunned him. Santiago stadium is now called Victor Jara stadium.
Also Salvador Allende was democratically elected, and there is no evidence what so ever of him being despotic, in fact maybe he should have been harder on his opponents, maybe he should have repressed people like Pinochet and his wealthy backers before they had a chance to take power.
Allende's political interests were the interests of the vast majority of people in Chile. The problem wasn't that he was serving his own interests at the expense of the majority the problem was that he serving the interests of the majority at the expense of the rich and that's why the rich and the USA backed a coup to get rid of him, and to have his supporters killed.