Nope, I was too young. Presumably you are claiming to be Chilean and lived through both Allende and Pinochet governments, well I say governments, one was elected by popular mandate the other was a fascist dictatorship. It must have been distressing for you to see the poor being fed at the expense of the wealthy.

Really? Do you actually lived in Chile during Allende’s government? Were you in the lines hoping to get a piece of bread? Did you lived the over inflation that sent our economy to bankrupcy? Pinochet’s government was a dictatorship, and Allende’s government was one as well.

A coup backed by Kissinger, ITT RTZ and the CIA to overthrow a democratically elected government determined to take the people out of poverty by relinquishing the grip on the land by the aristocrats.
Land reforms had been going on for most of the decade before Allende was elected. The Frei government was the first to distribute state owned land among the dirt poor impoverished campesinos. If this was communism it was democratically arrived at.
The USA and the UK governments have blood dripping from their hands over the thousands murdered by Pinochet and his goons. The fact that Jack Straw and Blair allowed Thatcher’s friend Pinochet to escape justice was one of the main turning points in my rejection of Labour as a socially progressive party.

And since when was internet epeen a measure of correctness?

I voted for Blair, and have no regrets. He made a lot of mistakes, especially Iraq, but he was way better than the alternative.

I did not vote for Pinochet and he was given the freedom of London.