Latin America
In reply to the discussion: 4 Things to Remember About Chile's 1973 Coup [View all]watoos
(7,142 posts)in 2002 and 2003. The people there still hadn't forgotten what we did in 1973. One Chilean lost it on me because he knew I was American. It took the manager of the bar to intercede. After I explained that I didn't vote for Bush and that I didn't like Henry Kissinger, we eventually, sort of became friends.
The people from Chile were so nice, almost shy, that it surprised me when a 19 year old waitress told me that she knew the secret of life. She said that smart people know that they are stupid but stupid people don't know that they are stupid, and Bush is stupid. They were very much against our invasion of Iraq.
Chile had a flourishing middle class under Allende, but since it was Socialist we had to overthrow it. Milton Friedman sent his cronies to Chile from the Chicago School of Economics and set up his supply side economics, the middle class disappeared and only the rich were educated. It's what they have been pushing in America also.