The 1973 coup in Chile and its continuing echoes: 50 years on, the Monroe Doctrine is still in effect

The 1973 coup in Chile generated considerably more public, media, and Congressional concern than the Guatemala action of 1954 had. After years of the Vietnam War, the civil rights movement, the assassinations of John and Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr., Watergate, and revelations beginning in 1971 of massive FBI abuses under the COINTELPRO operation, there was far more public and journalistic willingness to question dubious US operations in other countries.

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