Heather Cox Richardson (in her on-line newsletter on Feb. 11, 2022 ) Reports on the efforts of the CIA that disrupted the government of democratically elected Salvador Allende of Chile in 1972. The strike in Chile went on for 26 days and "disrupted supply chain" that "weakened the government" of Chile; soon after the government was overthrown by a right-wing military coup led by General Augusto Pinochet. Allenda died by either his own hand or the military.
Richardson made this comment at the time of a trucker's strike in Canada (seeming to suggest the CIA was involved in the Canada incident.
October 4, 2022. 1950-1980 Cold War.
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