Kissinger's unwavering support for brutal regimes still haunts Latin America
by Daniel Politi and Patricia Luna
Dec 03, 2023
4 minutes
In Chile, leftists were tortured, tossed from helicopters and forced to watch relatives be raped. In Argentina, many were “disappeared” by members of the brutal military dictatorship that held detainees in concentration camps.
It all happened with the endorsement of Henry Kissinger, the former U.S. secretary of state who died Wednesday at age 100.
As tributes poured in for the towering figure who was the top U.S. diplomat under Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford, the mood was decidedly different in , where many countries were scarred deeply during the Cold War by human rights abuses inflicted in the name of anti-communism and where many continue to
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