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Originally posted by: ricarleite
Actually the most brutal part of the dictatorship happened from 1969, when everyone lost their political freedom and rights and people got killed or banished, to 1978-1979 when these impositions ended. We only got democratic back in 1985 whe the last militar dictator steped out. The US involvment is fully documented, with memos by the secret service, the CIA and even from Lyndon Jonhson and Nixon about that subject. They fully supported these military coups on all over south america, mostly in Brazil, Argentina and Chile. There were several agents over here during this period, who had meetings with the military authorities, financed the coup and trainned our troops, also providing with inteligence information. There was a fear from the US that south america could've become "comunist", although such claim is absolutely insane. My former highschool teacher had a university professor who gave this lecture about our current situation and since he couldn't actually say anything, he used a "Captain America" cartoon edited and made some comments in between... The next day some agents stepped in the middle of his class, got him, and no one ever knew about him anymore. You couldn't walk on the street with more than 3 persons with you, as that would be considered an illegal assembling and you would be captured and tortured so you confessed where the "communists are". Books, songs, movies and plays were censored or forbidden. Things got so insane you couldn't buy books with red covers, because it was considered "communist" propaganda. Students who rebelled against it just "dissapeared" (got tortured and killed) and you couldn't say anything at all or else you would be next... Those were horrible days who I wish will NEVER happen again.
My god. That is a disgrace. Horrible. The people that were involved in this dictatorship should be excuted. I can't believe the US supported these bastards. Sickening. Sorry this happened to your country Ric. I had no idea.
