Stunned to see this last December's AP article at a Fox outlet!
AP International
by: DANIEL POLITI and PATRICIA LUNA, Associated Press
Posted: Dec 3, 2023 / 12:02 AM EST
Updated: Dec 3, 2023 / 12:02 AM EST
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SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — 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 South America, 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 harbor a deep distrust of their powerful neighbor to the north.
“I don’t know of any U.S. citizen who is more deplored, more disliked in Latin America than Henry Kissinger,” said Stephen Rabe, a retired University of Texas at Dallas history professor who wrote a book about Kissinger’s relationship with Latin America. “You know, the reality is, if he had traveled once democracy returned to Argentina, to Brazil, to Uruguay — if he had traveled to any of those countries he would have been immediately arrested.”
There is likely no starker example of Kissinger’s meddling with democracy in the region and then supporting brutality in the name of anti-communism than Chile.
More:
https://fox59.com/news/national-world/ap-international/ap-kissingers-unwavering-support-for-brutal-regimes-still-haunts-latin-america/
Doña Lucía Hiriart, married to Pinochet
(Mrs. Bloody Dictator)
Justice Samuel Alito with Martha-Ann Alito (Doña Lucía Hiriart look-a-like)