It is the 50th anniversary of the Chilean coup and the US role is still unclear. New revelations showed President Nixon was aware of the events. The coup's...
In the lead-up to the 50th anniversary of the coup, Chilean officials formally petitioned the Biden administration for a wider release of documents to help Chileans close this painful chapter in their history. In response, the CIA andtwo weeks ago that shed new, but not dramatic, light on the extent of U.S. involvement in the coup.
Previously declassified documents demonstrated that the U.S. undoubtedly helped set the stage for the coup by supporting Allende’s opposition, fomenting strikes, advocating for an invisible economic blockade, and actively intervening in copper markets on which Chile relied for most of its income. Still, the potentially direct role played by the CIA remained unclear.
Still, the dictatorship’s economic free market model left Chile as one of the least equal countries in the world, and the health care, education and pension systems regularly fall short in providing all Chileans a dignified existence. A massive and destructive social uprising in 2019 shed light on this growing sense of injustice and inequality. Recent public opinion polls also show an almost universal rejection of Chilean political institutions and its political class.
The near victory of far-right and Pinochet admirer José Antonio Kast in the 2021 presidential elections suggests that Chile is not immune to the type of right-wing populism increasingly common in the world. Finally, the hopeful opportunity that the 2019 uprising provided to do away with theU.S. involvement in Chilean politics was just another chapter in the litany of Latin American interventions prompted by Cold War politics. U.S.
Peter M. Siavelis is professor of politics and international Affairs at Wake Forest University in North Carolina. He is a long-time analyst of Chilean politics and recently co-authored
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