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America's Deadliest Export: Democracy
America's Deadliest Export: Democracy - In 1970, a man won a presidential election fair and square. Three years later he was dead, and the govt that replaced him was not chosen by anyone. This is not only time this story repeats. It just might be the clearest one. His name was Salvador Allende. President of Chile. A Marxist elected by his own people. Washington had already tried to stop him once before, in 1964, when the CIA helped bankroll his opponent. That time it worked. The next time, it didn't work fast enough. So in 1970, a new plan started. Henry Kissinger warned the White House that a successful elected Marxist government could become a dangerous example for other nations to follow. Two years later, a military coup ended it. Allende died inside the presidential palace. Now fast forward three decades. A different country, a different leader, the same fear. Before a 2007 vote in Venezuela, ads warned mothers that a socialist reform would let the state tak...
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