Pinochet - How the West Backed a Ruthless Dictatorship in Chile | Free Documentary History

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  • @FreeDocumentaryHistory
    @FreeDocumentaryHistory  9 місяців тому +27

    A dictator took power - and kept it - with the support of democracies including the United Kingdom and the United States, through the use of terror & torture. The West chose to look the other way because they had an investment to protect.
    This documentary uncovers the extent of Western support, using archive footage, expert analysis & personal accounts of torture, and declassified government files to tell the story of Pinochet's uprising, the brutal regime he led, and the Western allies who enabled it all.

    • @notavailable4596
      @notavailable4596 9 місяців тому +1

      The West didn't turn a blind eye.
      Who do you think taught the Chileans about things like black sites?

    • @lrmoralesr
      @lrmoralesr 8 місяців тому +2

      Córtenla con la mentirita esta. Aburre, llevo escuchándola más de 40 años. No me la trago.

    • @TylerRoeGuitar
      @TylerRoeGuitar 8 місяців тому +15

      The anti-American, pro-communist slant on this video is comical.

    • @C77-C77
      @C77-C77 8 місяців тому +8

      @@TylerRoeGuitar Yep, too much of that trash these days. I recall seeing a guy with a shirt that said "Pinochet did nothing wrong" once. I had to go shake his hand.

    • @hannah1943
      @hannah1943 8 місяців тому

      after saving the country from the communist he gave power back to the people. when will the Communists in Cuba give up power? was there he was a savior of his people

  • @GEEMELLOW
    @GEEMELLOW 2 місяці тому +11

    My parents were semi apolitical but, almost middle to left ground but never participated with any left party. During Allende’s presidency, trade unions tried twice to take over my parents small factory which they built from the ground up. During the first 4 years of Pinochet’s government, the business took a dive, almost certainly as a result of these economic changes. Although it affected my parents business I still think the country would not be what it is today if this hadn’t taken place. The history of Chile has always been violent no doubt - Pinochet was one more.
    As far as the Falkland’s war goes, this documentary fails greatly to mention the reasons why Chile helped the Brits. Argentina was threatening Chile since 78. Malvinas first, Chile next was shouted in speeches in 82.
    History differs as to where you read your information from, who you interview and how you present it. I am yet to see a documentary that shows both sides of the argument.
    Any recommendations?

    • @mooka4515
      @mooka4515 28 днів тому

      Yeah, throwing people out of helicopters or having animals rape women in front of soldiers... Both sides had their reasons. What a rubbish comment. F8cking fascist.

  • @rezkalla
    @rezkalla 28 днів тому +10

    Sad to see so many vile people in the comments.

  • @davidcross701
    @davidcross701 8 місяців тому +56

    Ruthless to Marxist, communist and Leftist.

  • @AndinoKiwi
    @AndinoKiwi 8 місяців тому +27

    "In the summer of 1973". Nope. This all happened in Chile. September was the end of winter, beginning of spring.

    • @Vaushgg
      @Vaushgg 4 місяці тому

      Good catch.

    • @GEEMELLOW
      @GEEMELLOW 2 місяці тому +2

      I also thought the same. Lots wrong facts in this doco

  • @genmontgomeree9888
    @genmontgomeree9888 9 місяців тому +27

    a bit hard to talk about a democratic mandate with 36 percent of the vote, a legal mandate is more accurate since Allende didn't break any laws to get into power. Allende is overrated and this is mostly due to him being overthrown by Pinochet. In the eyes of the left he's a martyr. I do want to state that I don't support Pinochet's repressions and the way he got into power, but his delegation of the economy to the Chicago Boys improved the welfare of the Chilean people.

    • @MariaMartinez-researcher
      @MariaMartinez-researcher 9 місяців тому +8

      By creating a super rich elite and a majority of people who never have a decent life. Average income is deceiving.

    • @MariaMartinez-researcher
      @MariaMartinez-researcher 9 місяців тому +3

      By creating a super rich elite and a majority of people who never have a decent life. Average income is deceiving.

    • @genmontgomeree9888
      @genmontgomeree9888 9 місяців тому +5

      @@MariaMartinez-researcher no shit average income is deceiving, but compare it to other countries in Latin-America (also comparing over a period of time) and then it is clear that it is one of the best countries to live in. Besides in a capitalist economy you earn money based on the type of work and amount of work you do. Of course there'll be inequalities and differences in income yet everybody still prefers that when prices decrease over time and incomes rise. In Poland this is also the case and they are even more pro-capitalism on average than many Western-European countries. I don't know how rich this elite is you're talking about, but as long as they don't get exclusive rights and advantages through corruption of the state there isn't really a problem with them being rich.

    • @Rainberna
      @Rainberna 8 місяців тому +1

      @@MariaMartinez-researcher Pinochet saved Chile from being the next Cuba in Latin America. Communism will never forgive Pinochet for stopping them in their attempt to take over Chile by force.

    • @B_Estes_Undegöetz
      @B_Estes_Undegöetz 8 місяців тому +1

      @tekinfomedi And … at the end of the day … the ruling class in America loves capitalism more than democracy. We are seeing that clearly now as the choice is being forced upon us in the USA via the proxy decision that’s camouflaging this choice whereby we’re being told it’s about “political party” or “culture”. It’s really a choice about democracy or US capitalism. And the ruling class needs to hide the fact that this is what is at stake here over the next twenty years. Democracy we can lose by giving it away. Capitalism is failing and can be temporarily repaired by reinvesting in vigorous democracy and a wealthy and powerful working class. Ultimately however Capitalism will only continue to function as an authoritarian system as it does in China with a nominally “socialist” authoritarian government structure. Or with an authoritarian fascist government structure as is more likely in western countries.
      A renewed life under true freedom and democracy and capitalism however requires a far more RADICAL dedication to democracy and power to wage earning working class people. Not a monopolistic oligarchy of rich billionaires who must be removed now and with haste. Their fear of democracy will quickly ruin whatever chance we have to save it, while claiming it is capitalism they are supporting and “communism” they are “protecting” us from. Nonsense. It is our current ruling oligarchs we need to fear. Not each other. Not sharing the massive wealth this great nation can produce when it works with a purpose. It’s the greedy oligarchs who hate democracy and fear change and progress that we must be rid of. Any rich man who refuses to be vigorously taxed isn’t on the side of the people or the nation. He or she is on the side or greed and oligarchy and the maintenance of an aristocracy of wealth and secret meetings and private influence. Freedom flourishes in fresh air and sunshine and out in the open with hard work not moving money around, or dreaming about money or thinking about it all day every day. But I’m thinking about what GOOD it can do for people. And making these plans happen. This is what America used to be about. Democracy and capital and labor working together.
      Capital left the community long ago and now only plots to serve its own interests and uses labor to serve its ends caring nothing about the people who do the labor, and considers democracy as an impediment, an enemy, even maybe ultimately as a enemy to be permanently removed if possible. Which many of the ruling oligarchs in America have long dreamed of doing, and see in Donald Trump as a unique historical opportunity to accomplish in order to achieve a goal they’ve dreamed of doing for decades; never to have to answer to “the people” about real anything ever again and be able to make business decisions without any government “interference” whatsoever.
      Democracy must be protected. It’s the great American principle that made the nation what it is and as great as it ever was. There’s been lots of failed rich oligarchies before. There’s never been a democracy as great and accomplished as the USA. It cannot be allowed to be destroyed by the likes of Trump and his phony populism or any of the anti-democratic forces the pro-business oligarchy lines up against it from either political party. The fact is however the GOP is the historical party of choice for the anti-democracy pro-wealth establishment of RULE BREAKERS and NORM IGNORERS when you’re looking at things from the rich versus poor or capital versus labor perspectives. The GOP takes your rights away as a working person, by always taking the side of the rich in any dispute.

  • @budmccaff550
    @budmccaff550 8 місяців тому +96

    Chile had right wing Pinochet and thousands of communists and their allies died... Cambodia had marxist Pol Pot and millions died.

    • @budmccaff550
      @budmccaff550 8 місяців тому +17

      @Vesta_the_Lesser lol... In your world perhaps.

    • @goodgood9955
      @goodgood9955 7 місяців тому +8

      Well said. Bravo.

    • @hannah1943
      @hannah1943 7 місяців тому +9

      Under two thousand in chile

    • @trenttodd7765
      @trenttodd7765 7 місяців тому +12

      @Vesta_the_Lesser lol "that wasn't real communism" stop being a meme

    • @henocksherlock3340
      @henocksherlock3340 6 місяців тому +5

      ​@@budmccaff550However, in this case, it's sort of true. Both US and China took down the prior cambodian prince and let pol pot take power because they were both against vietnam

  • @conradgaarder2789
    @conradgaarder2789 7 місяців тому +68

    Chile did not go the way of Cuba, thanks to the Chilean military.
    End of story.

    • @thejoin4687
      @thejoin4687 6 місяців тому +10

      It did. It ended up a dictatorship thanks to the Chilean military.

    • @patriotamas3216
      @patriotamas3216 5 місяців тому +3

      Exactly... although after Pinochet left power (1990), Chile has been in a free fall... 😢

    • @libertatemadvocatus1797
      @libertatemadvocatus1797 4 місяці тому +2

      @@thejoin4687
      But Pinochet's dictatorship lasted 17 years.
      Cuba's has been ongoing for over 60 years.

    • @thejoin4687
      @thejoin4687 4 місяці тому +1

      @@libertatemadvocatus1797 It went the way of Cuba for two decades then.

    • @dogsbecute
      @dogsbecute 3 місяці тому +3

      @@libertatemadvocatus1797 ....."pinochets dictatorship"....."chile did not go the way of cuba"....."pinochets DICTATORSHIP lasted 17 years"..."chile did not go the way of cuba"..."pinochets dictatorship"....the mental gymnastics you apologists come up with is hilarious.

  • @samuelperez9816
    @samuelperez9816 7 місяців тому +74

    Pinochet was a hero to Chile, he made a miserable country become one of the most well developed in the region. One of the top two to be exact

    • @39Panzerman
      @39Panzerman 3 місяці тому +12

      He made an okay country even more miserable

    • @saltydude1234
      @saltydude1234 3 місяці тому +7

      Bro no he didn't

    • @tatianalyulkin410
      @tatianalyulkin410 2 місяці тому +6

      At what price?

    • @tjavendano
      @tjavendano 2 місяці тому

      He is no hero, he did nothing but cause misery. Outside countries controlled the economy, Pinochet had no idea about administration or government

    • @dwainsimmons3447
      @dwainsimmons3447 12 днів тому +1

      wtf

  • @MrPickledede
    @MrPickledede 8 місяців тому +42

    Allende was good friends of Fidel Castro....yep he would have been great for Chile just like Hugo Chavez another admirer of Castro was great for Venezuela

    • @ysosirius2886
      @ysosirius2886 8 місяців тому

      Justin Trudeau is another follower of Castro and there are researchers who have traced Justin as Castro's illegitmate son

    • @sparkythesecretsquirrel4013
      @sparkythesecretsquirrel4013 7 місяців тому +1

      Hugo Chavez was great for Venezuela??????.

    • @Wajze
      @Wajze 7 місяців тому

      Sarcasm...​@@sparkythesecretsquirrel4013

    • @vanessakhaled5741
      @vanessakhaled5741 7 місяців тому

      Communism good for child????!!!!!😂😂😂😂

    • @Mast3rHand989
      @Mast3rHand989 6 місяців тому +3

      He was speaking ironically I think..

  • @jettjones9889
    @jettjones9889 9 місяців тому +41

    Pinochet saved that country, history is on his side.

    • @marcosjuarez7809
      @marcosjuarez7809 8 місяців тому

      But both Salvador Allende and Augusto Pinochet are the lesser of two evils. History is on his side based on right-wing populists and pro-Putin stooges. Centrists and moderates are not kind enough to both Salvador Allende and Augusto Pinochet. They are both the lesser of two evils.

    • @saltydude1234
      @saltydude1234 3 місяці тому +1

      Nah

    • @felipecondore4173
      @felipecondore4173 2 місяці тому +3

      Absolutely correct!!

    • @jettjones9889
      @jettjones9889 2 місяці тому +1

      @@felipecondore4173 it would have been another Venezuela or maybe even another Cuba.

  • @luistilli2328
    @luistilli2328 9 місяців тому +52

    As an anti marxist I like Pinochet.

    • @FreedomofspeechSensor-zu8ip
      @FreedomofspeechSensor-zu8ip 4 місяці тому +1

      If you take the time to study the unbiased history books he was actually a good man... He did have an big ego but most amazing people like him do!

  • @KbB-kz9qp
    @KbB-kz9qp 7 місяців тому +21

    My wife is Chilean and the 1973 coup happened on her 10th birthday. According to her, on balance, Pinochet was a net gain. Of course Pinochet’s men went too far - fascists alway do - and killed 3,000. But other dictators have killed many move than Pinochet, and he did stop Chile from becoming Communist, from becoming another Cuba.
    Pinochet modernized the economy, and public works projects like the Metro and highways also helped.
    Pinochet rescued Chileans from Communism, and for that, they will never forgive him.

    • @janemunoz1622
      @janemunoz1622 7 місяців тому +8

      your wife is deluded

    • @hannah1943
      @hannah1943 7 місяців тому

      I was in chile and it was under two thousand marx's terrorist.

    • @elpipexmo
      @elpipexmo 6 місяців тому +3

      @@janemunoz1622 I am Chilean, the wife is correct

    • @laabitres
      @laabitres 6 місяців тому

      Yeah he did all that by killing his own country men dude was a coward and a tyrant. Cuba is in the state it is in due to embargos and corruption not "communism" you guys are delusional

    • @willambonney
      @willambonney 5 місяців тому +2

      And this supposed to balance the scales.....make up for everything he did?...

  • @johnkeller6063
    @johnkeller6063 6 місяців тому +9

    Left or right wing doesn't matter. So many innocent people died. Just sad. May all the who died because of this RIP God bless them

  • @charleskristiansson1296
    @charleskristiansson1296 3 місяці тому +4

    US and UK were there where there're $$$$ they're there. They cared not one iota for humanity.

  • @semiramis47
    @semiramis47 9 місяців тому +61

    better Pinochet than a Communist takeover with it's usual ensuing bloodbath and economic death spiral.

    • @FreeDocumentaryHistory
      @FreeDocumentaryHistory  9 місяців тому +38

      You should maybe rethink that statement after watching this. Also, the democratically elected predecessor Allende wasn’t a communist.

    • @thesqueezyteam
      @thesqueezyteam 9 місяців тому +9

      @semiramis47 is right

    • @semiramis47
      @semiramis47 9 місяців тому +27

      @@FreeDocumentaryHistory no need to rethink and your delusional if you don't think
      Allende was a Communist with his "Chilean Path to Socialism" agenda and the radical wing of his party snapping at his heels. He was elected with only 36% of the vote, not a ringing endorsement - the legacy of Pinochet is Chile is now one of a few Latin American success stories

    • @nopenope460
      @nopenope460 9 місяців тому +7

      @@FreeDocumentaryHistory Why tf is The Tribe shadow banning me on this comment, what is wrong about it? -If you were not a communist you were pretty much safe. He used the same brutality that the communists used against 100 million people worldwide and are still killing because communism is present in some countries and Marxism/socialism is rampant in the west, so it is also not far from the murders of ordinary people... Again.... It will never stop.

    • @mavssami41
      @mavssami41 9 місяців тому +5

      ​@@semiramis47 he did save that country

  • @zillsburyy1
    @zillsburyy1 8 місяців тому +77

    brought to you by our friends at the CIA

    • @hannah1943
      @hannah1943 8 місяців тому +18

      thank God

    • @marcosjuarez7809
      @marcosjuarez7809 8 місяців тому +4

      No, blame Richard Nixon for appointing the late Dr. Henry Kissinger as Secretary of State.

    • @r.w.bottorff7735
      @r.w.bottorff7735 8 місяців тому +19

      ​@@hannah1943"Thank God..." For what exactly? Murdering thousands of his citizenry? I can't begin to fathom what shattered view of humanity such a person would have that utters such words. Shame on you.

    • @evaristmilian7826
      @evaristmilian7826 8 місяців тому

      @@r.w.bottorff7735 Had the communist remained in power Chile would today be Venezuela on Steroids, without oil!,

    • @lorenzo6mm
      @lorenzo6mm 8 місяців тому +2

      You mean the KGB and Cuba and Fidel Castro. During the Cold war in Chile.
      See, "the World Peace Council" a KGB revolutionary arm of political operatives selling "Socialism" masquerading as
      Social Justice.

  • @FreedomofspeechSensor-zu8ip
    @FreedomofspeechSensor-zu8ip 4 місяці тому +22

    *Pinochet and Milei are my South American Heros!!!!*

    • @Micfri300
      @Micfri300 3 місяці тому

      Milei is one thing pinochet is another.

  • @evaristus4821
    @evaristus4821 8 місяців тому +28

    I have read so many ignorant comments from people who support Pinochet.
    The bottom line is that when it was up to the Chilean people to vote, the gave a resounding "NO" to the tyrant. Had Pinochet and his right wing fascists just waited a few more months, it is likely that Salvador Allende would have lost the 1974 Presidential election to a conservative candidate.

    • @Osobjj11
      @Osobjj11 8 місяців тому +9

      Rotundo NO?! Jajaja y si era tan dictador porque entrego el poder?. Nadie lo ha hecho.

    • @lilianabriceno4259
      @lilianabriceno4259 8 місяців тому +1

      @@Osobjj11because he has no choice

    • @Leon_Espada_Azul
      @Leon_Espada_Azul 8 місяців тому

      No, las elecciones habrían sido en 1976, y no en 1974. Chile no llegaba con vida a 1976. La situación era horrible. Los comunistas mataban gente en los campos y robaban los terrenos. Esta el caso de la señora Antonieta Machel la cual fue violada por 30 comunistas (está documentado!) y muere al tratar de escapar. Hay al menos 500 mujeres documentadas que fueron violadas por los guerrilleros comunistas. Que bueno que esas bestias fueron eliminadas. (Ahora dicen ser feministas y preocuparse por las mujeres). Grande Pinochet!

    • @petebondurant58
      @petebondurant58 8 місяців тому

      Allende would not have held that election if he thought that he would lose it.

    • @petebondurant58
      @petebondurant58 8 місяців тому

      @tekinfomedi The conservatives backed the coup, and hated Allende.

  • @normanpotts3169
    @normanpotts3169 2 місяці тому +5

    I lived in Chile from 1984 to 86. I saw his police some pretty bad things during protests, and Punochet ruled with an iron hand. However, most people I knew supported him and what he did for Chile overall. Sadly, the country has reversed itself.

  • @KingdomPrinncess
    @KingdomPrinncess 9 місяців тому +150

    Thanks to Pinochet, Chileans don't have communism in their country. Communism don't contribute to anything but rather destroy the country and their people.

    • @TheWedabest
      @TheWedabest 9 місяців тому

      NO need for communism when Pinochet does all the destruction!

    • @Nick-fi1mc
      @Nick-fi1mc 9 місяців тому +9

      Democrats LOVE it though

    • @coimbralaw
      @coimbralaw 9 місяців тому +2

      @@Nick-fi1mcso then you love it

    • @Nick-fi1mc
      @Nick-fi1mc 9 місяців тому

      @@coimbralaw no, I'm NORMAL! Socialism/communism is LOVED by leftists and Democrats! Looks like someone is offended....

    • @notavailable4596
      @notavailable4596 9 місяців тому +17

      Exactly, and Allende wasn't exactly a good person either.

  • @gustavodelosreyes9210
    @gustavodelosreyes9210 8 місяців тому +48

    Allende had ruined the Chilean economy and had to be removed,in order to save the country. Pinochet was a tough but necessary solution and returned Chile as a successful economy. Why don't you condemn the socialist disasters of Allende?

    • @marcosjuarez7809
      @marcosjuarez7809 8 місяців тому +5

      Or both Allende and Pinochet.

    • @nightflight4191
      @nightflight4191 8 місяців тому

      Nothing justifies murder , torture and disappearence. Especially not economic issues. What are your values. Money for murder? Think about it

    • @evaristmilian7826
      @evaristmilian7826 8 місяців тому +3

      @@marcosjuarez7809 Under Pinochet Chile's economy thrived.

    • @marcosjuarez7809
      @marcosjuarez7809 8 місяців тому +2

      @@evaristmilian7826 But it paid a price because Augusto Pinochet was a ruthless authoritarian who easily oppressed dissidents. And besides, both Salvador Allende and Augusto Pinochet are the lesser of two evils in Chile as a matter of fact.

    • @evaristmilian7826
      @evaristmilian7826 8 місяців тому

      @@marcosjuarez7809 No cost is too great to save your country from communism! Simply look at the trail of death & misery left behind by Fidel Castro & Chavez...Never mind Mao & Stalin!

  • @johnobrien6415
    @johnobrien6415 8 місяців тому +4

    Re: the guy interviewed that seems to think Pinochet did what he did to test out economic theories: maybe he did or maybe he didn't. Note that he was corrupt. I will say with conviction that dictators dictate so they can be corrupt. Idealists do not become dictators. It's about control and if there is a need for that much control it isn't about some ideal, it's about what the dictator can squeeze out of things for themselves. Normal, moral people do not become dictators. Corrupt individuals do. Freaks do.

  • @Kattan19929
    @Kattan19929 Місяць тому +3

    One of the greatest Leaders ever lived.

    • @GeorgeLee317
      @GeorgeLee317 День тому

      Well, im Chilean and i lived my teen years during his presidency. Although he saved Chile from communism, he did it in a very bad way. He tortured and pushed communists out of helicopters without mercy, and at the end, they were still human beings… and also there is the infamous case of Victor Jara in Chile. When he posted a new song about freedom and called for an “end” to pinochets dictatorship, he sended military men to his house, grabbed him up, raped him to a basement and broke his hands with a hammer and after that he got shot fatally by 57 bullets. So yeah, he might have saved Chile from communism, but in a horrible way.

  • @gailmcclellan6018
    @gailmcclellan6018 9 місяців тому +18

    Watch the film "Missing". Great film on this.

    • @tatianalyulkin410
      @tatianalyulkin410 3 місяці тому

      And now we have Gonzalo Lira. And he will be haunting Michelle Bachelett and Ariel Dorfman for the rest of their miserable lives.

  • @priscamolotsi
    @priscamolotsi 8 місяців тому +3

    Excellent documentary!

  • @mahraz1
    @mahraz1 9 місяців тому +11

    The other 9/11...

  • @robertoschuko2501
    @robertoschuko2501 8 місяців тому +126

    Pinochet saved Chile from reds !

    • @Ismail-fv6ki
      @Ismail-fv6ki 7 місяців тому

      But he killed thousands of chileans, it's a war criminal, and it's the fault of all the economic problems of the Chile of today💀 brainwashed

    • @КанатТемирханов-у7ь
      @КанатТемирханов-у7ь 6 місяців тому +3

      ❤❤

    • @laabitres
      @laabitres 6 місяців тому

      By killing his own people and being a dictator yaaaaay

    • @jimbell122
      @jimbell122 5 місяців тому +6

      True

    • @jasonm949
      @jasonm949 5 місяців тому

      Well, they're back in charge so....

  • @lhggylover
    @lhggylover 6 місяців тому +5

    I think having more military historians on the Chilean side would give better insight. These scholars have second hand accounts, my grandfather in the V region manned his post and shut all communications for the BioBio region. Every man did what was needed of them

    • @FreeDocumentaryHistory
      @FreeDocumentaryHistory  2 місяці тому

      @@lhggylover most historians have second hand accounts. Unless some can time-travel.

    • @lhggylover
      @lhggylover 2 місяці тому

      @@FreeDocumentaryHistory most of the events you documented have occurred within the last 50 years. We have first hand accounts of WW1 vets but not something from 1973? I appreciate your content

  • @cesarorellanaleiva9337
    @cesarorellanaleiva9337 8 місяців тому +16

    Pinochet Hero 🇨🇱🙌🏻

  • @michelesanpietro3013
    @michelesanpietro3013 Місяць тому

    He wasn't supported by the whole West. President Reagan for one never ceased to criticize the Pinochet democracy, to the point that Pinochet asked his administration for a compensation because of the "slanderous campaign". And it was when Reagan was President that Pinochet fell.

  • @kungfuchimp5788
    @kungfuchimp5788 8 місяців тому +43

    The hagiographic rhetoric of this "documentary" regarding Allende's legacy is so juvenile and ham handed as to be laughable.

    • @rgsxyz1105
      @rgsxyz1105 2 місяці тому

      Considering Allende started confiscating private property, just like a proper Communist; it indicates Allende was planning to take Chile the route of Cuba/Castro.

  • @deanv378
    @deanv378 9 місяців тому +35

    All commies just hate a right wing authoritarian junta that establishes a healthy economy. Much better to have lunatic Marxist policies that lead to abject poverty.

    • @marcosjuarez7809
      @marcosjuarez7809 8 місяців тому

      No, centrists and moderates are the ones who are establishing a healthy economy. Neither a left-wing socialist nut like Salvador Allende nor a right-wing authoritarian like Augusto Pinochet.

    • @felipecondore4173
      @felipecondore4173 2 місяці тому

      Exactly!

    • @Mobox-mp8yl
      @Mobox-mp8yl Місяць тому

      I'd prefer a democracy over a dictatorship thank you very much.

    • @felipecondore4173
      @felipecondore4173 Місяць тому

      @@Mobox-mp8yl For your information, the Pinochet regime literally built the democratic system for the transition to democracy. Don't be ignorant!

    • @Mobox-mp8yl
      @Mobox-mp8yl Місяць тому

      @@felipecondore4173 So that changes the fact they overthrew a democracy and established a dictatorship?

  • @Jayjay-qe6um
    @Jayjay-qe6um 9 місяців тому +19

    "Everything I did, all my actions, all of the problems I had I dedicated to God and to Chile, because I kept Chile from becoming Communist."
    -- Augusto Pinochet

    • @smaragdastefani3338
      @smaragdastefani3338 7 місяців тому +1

      Fascist

    • @patriotamas3216
      @patriotamas3216 5 місяців тому

      Absolutely true 👏👏👏

    • @Mobox-mp8yl
      @Mobox-mp8yl Місяць тому

      Yeah don't care what he stopped because at the end of the day doesn't matter if he improved the country or not he still overthrew a democracy and is responsible for the deaths and suffering of many.

  • @Cocodrilou
    @Cocodrilou 9 місяців тому +14

    The real Father of modern Chile 🇨🇱

  • @hailchristandmary
    @hailchristandmary 9 місяців тому +21

    I like Pinochet

  • @blitztim6416
    @blitztim6416 7 місяців тому +5

    I have a Chilean friend who was in his army.

  • @pp-bb6jj
    @pp-bb6jj 9 місяців тому +26

    Ruthless? You really need to choose words more carefully.
    Communist Soviet Union was ruthless.

    • @patrice5976
      @patrice5976 8 місяців тому +1

      That maybe… this documentary is about socialism in Chili. Read a book or two before you comment publicly

    • @elizabethsohler6516
      @elizabethsohler6516 8 місяців тому

      Ruthlessness is STRICTLY an equal opportunity proposition. Fascists used it, Communists used it. The United States ( a so-called democracy) has used it for decades to overthrow those it opposes.

    • @Deathmittens1
      @Deathmittens1 8 місяців тому +5

      Pinochet disappeared tens of thousands of people.... I can't imagine a better example of ruthlessness

    • @evaristmilian7826
      @evaristmilian7826 8 місяців тому +1

      @@Deathmittens1 A standard operating procedure of Communists like Castro, Chavez, Noriega....They just get better 'press'.

    • @eagle1ear
      @eagle1ear 8 місяців тому +1

      @@evaristmilian7826 Chavez was a freely elected president. Why? Because the Venezuelan Oligarchy kept so much wealth that the poverty rate there was 70%. Chavez had the Venezuelan Legislature write a new constitution and then he stood down for an election and won again, handily. Bush II CIA backed a coup which failed comically and Chavez continued as president.

  • @grf15
    @grf15 9 місяців тому +4

    Superb! Much of this was news to me.

  • @Thomas-ry8xq
    @Thomas-ry8xq 8 місяців тому +16

    He prevented communism.

    • @marcosjuarez7809
      @marcosjuarez7809 8 місяців тому +1

      But did not give the centrists and moderates a say in government either. As a matter of fact, both Salvador Allende and Augusto Pinochet are the lesser of two evils in Chile.

  • @georgdiaz7450
    @georgdiaz7450 8 місяців тому +11

    He was extreme right wing, not right wing.

    • @patriotamas3216
      @patriotamas3216 5 місяців тому +1

      He was not political

    • @gunthygun
      @gunthygun 4 місяці тому

      Nooooo.....era un patriota qé salvó a su país de caer en una dictadura criminal comunista.....le queda claro ....????

  • @minakatahizuru
    @minakatahizuru 7 місяців тому +6

    This is biased

  • @willpower8894
    @willpower8894 9 місяців тому +29

    A good friend of Thatcher. 🤢

  • @SilenTHerO78614
    @SilenTHerO78614 8 місяців тому +11

    Pinochetis a hero

  • @ameyakulkarni6493
    @ameyakulkarni6493 7 місяців тому +1

    MAKE A VIDEO ON ALFREDO STROESSNER PARAGUYAN DICTATOR WHO RULED PARAGUAY MORE THAN 3 DECADE

  • @ARBBFamily
    @ARBBFamily 7 місяців тому +1

    The people will get no “ justice” And Pinochet + associates will receive no “penalty”… they won and their victims lost. Good people did not win. Time changed things as time always does.

    • @patriotamas3216
      @patriotamas3216 5 місяців тому

      Communism lost... that time... now has taken Chile from inside... unfortunately...

    • @Mobox-mp8yl
      @Mobox-mp8yl Місяць тому

      Yep that's history for ya

  • @BlackDogOriginal
    @BlackDogOriginal 21 день тому +1

    Based

  • @Noelzsazsa
    @Noelzsazsa 27 днів тому +1

    He has family members that now live in Australia and one i believe she is trying to get into politics

  • @akampfer
    @akampfer 9 місяців тому +1

    Our government did THAT more than once

    • @marcosjuarez7809
      @marcosjuarez7809 8 місяців тому

      No, blame Richard Nixon for appointing the late Dr. Henry Kissinger as Secretary of State. Besides, both Salvador Allende and Augusto Pinochet are the lesser of two evils in Chile.

    • @hannah1943
      @hannah1943 7 місяців тому +1

      Then i'm proud of my government

    • @MarkWilliam-pl6qs
      @MarkWilliam-pl6qs 7 місяців тому

      Now the US are supporting Marxist governments and oppressing anyone who opposes them

  • @penedulumskateco7691
    @penedulumskateco7691 7 місяців тому +6

    Hero

  • @drdarshiniannadezoysa980
    @drdarshiniannadezoysa980 Місяць тому

    There was no diffetence between Nixon and Carter when outside the US in London. Ref Chile, Nicaragua and El Salvador rallies and marches.

  • @drdarshiniannadezoysa980
    @drdarshiniannadezoysa980 Місяць тому

    Prof Andre Gunder Frank or Gunder lectured in the University of Radt Sngliavthen the University of Amsterdam. We were his students. Gunder's wife was Martha, Chilean. He studied with the Vjica boys in the University of Chicago but vehemently opposed his mentor Prof Milton Friedman, monetarist.

  • @BryceFleming-d1c
    @BryceFleming-d1c 9 місяців тому +13

    Make no mistake: the story of Pinochet is also the story of the modern Republican Party in the U.S. This should be a cautionary and sober tale for America. Dictatorship can happen when you least expect it, and once it does happen, it leaves countless victims in it's wake. A dictatorship never leads to happiness and prosperity. We must always tell the truth to those who continue to live in denial.

    • @agoodone792
      @agoodone792 9 місяців тому

      If any party is the dictator in the US, it’s the Democratic Party. Who was the party of segregation and Jim Crow? Who was the party of the “war on poverty” and who was the party that got us involved in Vietnam, WW1, and WW2? Who was the party responsible for handing control of the money supply over to the Federal Reserve? Who was the party in the 1930s, who enacted laws banning the private ownership of gold by citizens!? And finally, which party wants to repeal the 2nd amendment and deny citizens the ability to defend themselves from a tyrannical government? These are all fascist policies pursued by the Democratic Party.

    • @ekkolima
      @ekkolima 9 місяців тому

      Just like the Biden administration. And he had the father of a Gold Star vet arrested for asking Biden to acknowledge the 13 American servicemen murdered in the botched withdrawal from Afghanistan.

    • @gopher7691
      @gopher7691 9 місяців тому +3

      And what does communism lead to? Happiness? Please. Communism would have been infinitely worse for Chile. Communism leads to poverty, terror, and death. Chile is now prosperous and free. Yes Pinochet was cruel but he did save Chile from a terrible fate

    • @gopher7691
      @gopher7691 9 місяців тому

      The only party trying to put its political opponents in jail is the Democrat party

    • @notavailable4596
      @notavailable4596 9 місяців тому +1

      You're the one in denial.
      There are absolutely no parallels except in your imagination.

  • @I.AM.JUPITER
    @I.AM.JUPITER 8 місяців тому +2

    Wasn’t the Netflix movie about him. Isn’t he a vampire? Somebody help me.

    • @johnobrien6415
      @johnobrien6415 8 місяців тому

      No, he was a little puppet who wanted to become a real boy.

    • @patriciabascunanerices4386
      @patriciabascunanerices4386 8 місяців тому

      Esa película del Vampiro la hicieron los comunistas y onunistas chilenos o mejor dicho antichilenos

    • @hannah1943
      @hannah1943 7 місяців тому +1

      No he was a great hero who saved his country when the marx's dogs

    • @johnobrien6415
      @johnobrien6415 7 місяців тому

      @@hannah1943 you need a complete sentence. Keep trying.

  • @PaulTenorio71
    @PaulTenorio71 7 місяців тому

    Reading Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein and this documentary reiterates all the main points made in the book. The book provides the global effort by the west to intervene and create a new model for a free market states.

  • @9eleven1877
    @9eleven1877 9 місяців тому +16

    Why deleting comments?

    • @Grenadier311
      @Grenadier311 8 місяців тому

      YT has been viciously managing the comments since Russia invaded Ukraine, and it was bad before then.

    • @patriotamas3216
      @patriotamas3216 5 місяців тому

      They are paid to lie to people...

  • @luisfernandovelasquezcapch790
    @luisfernandovelasquezcapch790 9 місяців тому +20

    August Pinochet was a neonazi dictator and a genocide.

    • @thomasdonovan3580
      @thomasdonovan3580 9 місяців тому +1

      That’s why pencils have erasers.

    • @gopher7691
      @gopher7691 9 місяців тому

      Allende was a communist who would have destroyed chile.

    • @marcosjuarez7809
      @marcosjuarez7809 8 місяців тому

      Well, both Salvador Allende and Augusto Pinochet are the lesser of two evils.

    • @mauriciomunoz9745
      @mauriciomunoz9745 5 місяців тому +1

      you have no idea what a neonazi is, or a dictator, or a genocide, pinochet was nothing of that.

    • @patriotamas3216
      @patriotamas3216 5 місяців тому

      Bot comment...

  • @luissegovia8205
    @luissegovia8205 8 місяців тому +1

    Lo unico que le agradezco a Pinochet es haber estado en 1978 cuando se quisieron avivar los argentinos, si no hubiera estado pinochet allende se hubiera ido el 76 y lo mas probable es que el presidente hubiera sido aylwin ( el traidor y cobarde aylwin ) ..y lo mas probable es que argentina nos hubiera quitado todo el sur de chile

  • @luisfernandovelasquezcapch790
    @luisfernandovelasquezcapch790 9 місяців тому +1

    Salvador Allende era el Jacobo Árbenz de los chilenos.

  • @RobertsonMilkshakes
    @RobertsonMilkshakes 3 місяці тому

    Pinochet represented the ..west at it's worst 😢.

    • @Mobox-mp8yl
      @Mobox-mp8yl Місяць тому

      Right on the dot with that one.

  • @sebastianalegria3401
    @sebastianalegria3401 2 місяці тому

    Socialism has never worked in any country, think of what's happening in Venezuela right now whose regime seems endless, besides Chile was the only place where this ideology came in through democratic elections in the early 70's.

    • @Mobox-mp8yl
      @Mobox-mp8yl Місяць тому +1

      They're not endless my friend they end... someday

    • @sebastianalegria3401
      @sebastianalegria3401 Місяць тому

      @@Mobox-mp8yl I've always wanted to know; When will these regimes end in these countries?

    • @Mobox-mp8yl
      @Mobox-mp8yl Місяць тому +1

      @@sebastianalegria3401 Your guess is as good as mine. I'm not a psychic.

  • @s.s.p.9680
    @s.s.p.9680 8 місяців тому +8

    For me, socialist views is the worst crime.

    • @Mobox-mp8yl
      @Mobox-mp8yl Місяць тому

      So having an opinion is a crime now?

  • @franciscopalma3068
    @franciscopalma3068 4 місяці тому +1

    habrá cometido violaciones a los derechos humanos y eso es inaceptable pero por otro lado puso orden, mano dura contra la delincuencia y levantó la economía del país, y es lo que hace falta ahora en Chile.

  • @toddmartino5398
    @toddmartino5398 8 місяців тому +2

    I hope the Cincinnati Reds have a good season this year
    What about you all?

  • @drdarshiniannadezoysa980
    @drdarshiniannadezoysa980 Місяць тому

    I picketed Kissinger who was a guest lecturer in my university in DC. GU.

  • @Michaelfranks6969
    @Michaelfranks6969 9 місяців тому +1

    This is what happen when you resist american power ... remember america is power no.1

    • @Rainberna
      @Rainberna 8 місяців тому +1

      This is what happens if you try to impose communism by force in Chile. Remember that commies!

    • @hannah1943
      @hannah1943 7 місяців тому

      It was not American revolution. It was a Chile and revolution against marxist. And you take allies where you can get Then

  • @skogstjuven
    @skogstjuven 9 місяців тому +5

    nice.

  • @theodorreischmann6414
    @theodorreischmann6414 8 місяців тому

    Laydie my respect !

  • @a.d.b7376
    @a.d.b7376 4 місяці тому +5

    Viva Augusto Pinochet 🇨🇱👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

    • @Mobox-mp8yl
      @Mobox-mp8yl Місяць тому

      He's dead mate

    • @a.d.b7376
      @a.d.b7376 Місяць тому

      @@Mobox-mp8yl however we still love him.

    • @Mobox-mp8yl
      @Mobox-mp8yl Місяць тому

      @@a.d.b7376 There are many that would beg to differ.

  • @lawrencejhutchinson
    @lawrencejhutchinson 8 місяців тому +6

    I had a Chilean girlfriend who worked as a stewardess on the presidential plane. She thought that he was a kindly old man like a grandfather. I couldn't persuade her that he was a monster.

    • @Сашаромисмерть
      @Сашаромисмерть 7 місяців тому

      Because you weren't there. JewMericans only gather their info from democratic sources

    • @patriotamas3216
      @patriotamas3216 5 місяців тому +3

      Simple... she met him... you didn’t... (he saved Chile from communism)...

    • @Mobox-mp8yl
      @Mobox-mp8yl Місяць тому

      @@patriotamas3216 and established a dictatorship and caused the deaths and sufferings of many

  • @nicholasking7120
    @nicholasking7120 2 місяці тому

    Pinochet was the man

  • @lazzzZaruZ
    @lazzzZaruZ 8 місяців тому

    how do you loot a countries natural resources without being seen.?
    its the same country that comes as everybodys friend, a small country but very sharp as president DJT said.
    the most ruthless industrialist in the world.
    J.RR Tolkien covered it on lord of the rings.

  • @MargaretTeacher21
    @MargaretTeacher21 4 місяці тому

    LA VERDADERA HISTORIA ES QUE EL PRESIDENTE PINOCHET HIZO DE CHILE LA NACIÓN MÁS PRÓSPERA, PUJANTE Y SEGURA. CON ALLENDE ERA EL SEGUNDO PAIS MÁS POBRE DESPUÉS DE HAITÍ. FIN DE LA HISTORIA. 🇨🇱🇨🇱🇨🇱🇨🇱🇨🇱🇨🇱🇨🇱🇨🇱🇨🇱🇨🇱🇨🇱🇨🇱🇨🇱🇨🇱🇨🇱🇨🇱🇨🇱🫡

  • @Avery-Marx
    @Avery-Marx 2 місяці тому +1

    His only crime was to love an ungrateful country

    • @Mobox-mp8yl
      @Mobox-mp8yl Місяць тому

      I don't think they wanted them to establish a dictatorship.

  • @xothehost123
    @xothehost123 8 місяців тому +1

    Chile is part of the West, bro. You might have wanted to say the United States.

    • @marcosjuarez7809
      @marcosjuarez7809 8 місяців тому

      But both Salvador Allende and Augusto Pinochet are the lesser of two evils in Chile.

  • @catalinamarquez6937
    @catalinamarquez6937 4 місяці тому

    No I remember everything 52

  • @gonzalomoya7097
    @gonzalomoya7097 8 місяців тому +10

    Pinochet save Chile , we support him all the way proudly ... sorry leftys 🇨🇱❤️🇨🇱

    • @marcosjuarez7809
      @marcosjuarez7809 8 місяців тому +1

      You support him all the way proudly or you justify his brutal authoritarian regime? Besides, both Salvador Allende and Augusto Pinochet are the lesser of two evils.

    • @smaragdastefani3338
      @smaragdastefani3338 7 місяців тому

      Fascist

    • @gonzalomoya7097
      @gonzalomoya7097 7 місяців тому

      Welll ... Chile still working thanks to his ideas, the leftists has a chance and blow it 🇨🇱

  • @jthemagicrobot3960
    @jthemagicrobot3960 8 місяців тому +2

    I see yt is removing truthful comments again

  • @jackieo3594
    @jackieo3594 3 місяці тому +1

    The best president of CHILE was PINOCHET he help his people and country CHILE , and we need him again.

    • @Mobox-mp8yl
      @Mobox-mp8yl Місяць тому

      They need a dictatorship again?

  • @drdarshiniannadezoysa980
    @drdarshiniannadezoysa980 Місяць тому

    40,000 people were killed in the stadium. The world boycotted football with Chile. Now it is drugs.

  • @s.s.p.9680
    @s.s.p.9680 8 місяців тому +2

    Whom did he punish?

  • @expandablebeltran
    @expandablebeltran 8 місяців тому +6

    The best president of the world.

  • @kidmohair8151
    @kidmohair8151 8 місяців тому +2

    the US in particular and the other "free democracies" of the west in general,
    has got some 'splaining to do.
    but that will *never* happen, until they too, suffer the fate of Pinochet.

  • @catalinamarquez6937
    @catalinamarquez6937 4 місяці тому

    La casa de las monedas 😂

  • @LeonardojavierMellaretamal
    @LeonardojavierMellaretamal 8 місяців тому

    ❤❤❤❤

  • @SteveRolandCabra
    @SteveRolandCabra 8 місяців тому +1

    Free Documentary - History, please upload videos of 10 episodes on Madacy Entertainment Group's The Great Events of Our Century on UA-cam channel.

  • @Thomas-ry8xq
    @Thomas-ry8xq 8 місяців тому +8

    Pinochets ideas worked.

    • @FreeDocumentaryHistory
      @FreeDocumentaryHistory  8 місяців тому +6

      yes they definitely worked for Pinochet.

    • @Сашаромисмерть
      @Сашаромисмерть 7 місяців тому +1

      ​@@FreeDocumentaryHistoryIs that why the majority economy flourished ? Let me guess voting works

    • @thejoin4687
      @thejoin4687 6 місяців тому +2

      Yep. Seems that bayonetted prisoners really do stay dead.

    • @patriotamas3216
      @patriotamas3216 5 місяців тому

      Pinochet is no longer and Chile is falling down in big steps...

    • @patriotamas3216
      @patriotamas3216 5 місяців тому

      @@FreeDocumentaryHistoryThey worked for all Chileans, specially the very poor... sometimes is good to read and inform yourself...

  • @jose-antoniobarros-poblete9626
    @jose-antoniobarros-poblete9626 3 місяці тому

    Carlos Pratts resigned because shooting a woman who shout him in the street. A detail conviniently omitted.

  • @motow3031
    @motow3031 8 місяців тому

    UK love child

  • @RampantDaydream
    @RampantDaydream 4 місяці тому

    Pinochet was a hero.

  • @luisfernandovelasquezcapch790
    @luisfernandovelasquezcapch790 9 місяців тому +4

    El referéndum del NO fue el fin del nazismo chileno.

    • @patriotamas3216
      @patriotamas3216 5 місяців тому

      Nunca falta un comentario de una persona que no lee y no se informa

  • @marionavia5254
    @marionavia5254 6 місяців тому +1

    Pinochet es el mejor gobernante que ah tenido chile durante su historia. Las cifras nunca más pudieron ser superadas. El pais más ejemplar del continente gracias a su gestión. Hoy en día el globalismo socialista está destruyendo el gran legado. VIVA CHILE Y PINOCHET POR SIEMPRE❤

    • @patriotamas3216
      @patriotamas3216 5 місяців тому

      ❤🇨🇱

    • @Mobox-mp8yl
      @Mobox-mp8yl Місяць тому

      Socialist globalism? You have truly lost your rocker my friend.

  • @mavssami41
    @mavssami41 9 місяців тому +6

    🚁

  • @rickmartin2392
    @rickmartin2392 9 місяців тому +15

    Pay attention guys, this will be the U.S. if trump wins this election. This is NOT a joke guys...

    • @thesqueezyteam
      @thesqueezyteam 9 місяців тому +19

      Communists should be afraid

    • @holdstillbro
      @holdstillbro 9 місяців тому +2

      @@thesqueezyteam communism will win

    • @travelinman790
      @travelinman790 9 місяців тому +4

      ​@@varrick1226he tried. Did you forget about January 6th? You trumpsters like to conveniently forget.

    • @travelinman790
      @travelinman790 9 місяців тому +5

      ​@@thesqueezyteamAmerica has a very small communist party ( less than 5,000 members). If you think liberals are commies you're delus1onal.

    • @agoodone792
      @agoodone792 9 місяців тому

      @@travelinman790 yeah and what happened on January 6th? Not an insurrection unless you call walking around the capitol peacefully with police tour guides an insurrection. A Dem staffer was caught having gay sex in a senate hearing chamber and nothing happened, but a guy put his feet on Pelosi’s desk and he went to jail. Can you say hypocrisy?

  • @Nick-fi1mc
    @Nick-fi1mc 9 місяців тому +2

    What the Democrat party wishes they were

  • @BlackDogOriginal
    @BlackDogOriginal 21 день тому

    🚁 🎉

  • @FreedomofspeechSensor-zu8ip
    @FreedomofspeechSensor-zu8ip 4 місяці тому

    The economic success of Chilea under Pinochet was due to the economic theory of Milton Freedman and the Chicago boys!

  • @coletrain6545
    @coletrain6545 3 місяці тому

    As bad as he was he never worse than chavez, castro, stalin, lenin, mao or his predecessor.

  • @OP3735
    @OP3735 2 місяці тому

    Ah america spreading peace as usual

  • @Iwatchedyouchains
    @Iwatchedyouchains 26 днів тому

    No estas