ES 243 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Noam Chomsky, United Fruit Company, Salvadoran Army
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Led a smear campaign against the government of chile, as it is currently doing in venezuela. Used national and international media to demonize socialist president. By causing scarcity through extortion, through torture, imprisonment, enforced disappearances and assassinations, the cia and right-wing forces in the country attempted to destabilize the country especially after allende nationalized natural resources. On sep. 11, 1973, gen. augusto pinochet led the military all the way to the presidential palace with the backing of the cia, who provided him with all the necessary weapons and armored vehicles. A huge book of new economic laws called the brick fell on chilean bureaucrats" desks the morning after the coup, outlining a new capitalist agenda for the country, to the united states" advantage. In 1944, the violent u. s. -backed dictatorship of jorge ubico was overthrown by an uprising. Ubico was a puppet of the united fruit company, which took advantage of the local people for cheap/basically free labor.
