And Hitler was not "elected", dippie. But thanks for revealing your true colors. Hitler never had a majority. He was put into power by backroom dealing. He lost to Hindenberg in 1932.

Here is what the elected representatives of the Chilean people said on August 22, 1973 in an official protest against the dictatorship of Allende.

Chile’s Chamber of Deputies approved this text by 81 votes against 47, on August 22 1973.

August 22, 1973
The Resolution
Considering:
1. That for the Rule of Law to exist, public authorities must carry out their activities and discharge their duties within the framework of the Constitution and the laws of the land, respecting fully the principle of reciprocal independence to which they are bound, and that all inhabitants of the country must be allowed to enjoy the guarantees and fundamental rights assured them by the Constitution;
2. That the legitimacy of the Chilean State lies with the people who, over the years, have invested in this legitimacy with the underlying consensus of their coexistence, and that an assault on this legitimacy not only destroys the cultural and political heritage of our Nation, but also denies, in practice, all possibility of democratic life;
3. That the values and principles expressed in the Constitution, according to article 2, indicate that sovereignty resides essentially in the Nation, and that authorities may not exercise more powers than those delegated to them by the Nation; and, in article 3, it is deduced that any government that arrogates to itself rights not delegated to it by the people commits sedition;
4. That the current President of the Republic was elected by the full Congress, in accordance with a statute of democratic guarantees incorporated in the Constitution for the very purpose of assuring that the actions of his administration would be subject to the principles and norms of the Rule of Law that he solemnly agreed to respect;
5. That it is a fact that the current government of the Republic, from the beginning, has sought to conquer absolute power with the obvious purpose of subjecting all citizens to the strictest political and economic control by the state and, in this manner, fulfilling the goal of establishing a totalitarian system: the absolute opposite of the representative democracy established by the Constitution;
6. That to achieve this end, the administration has committed not isolated violations of the Constitution and the laws of the land, rather it has made such violations a permanent system of conduct, to such an extreme that it systematically ignores and breaches the proper role of the other branches of government, habitually violating the Constitutional guarantees of all citizens of the Republic, and allowing and supporting the creation of illegitimate parallel powers that constitute an extremely grave danger to the Nation, by all of which it has destroyed essential elements of institutional legitimacy and the Rule of Law;
7. That the administration has committed the following assaults on the proper role of the National Congress, seat of legislative power:
a) It has usurped Congress’s principle role of legislation through the adoption of various measures of great importance to the country’s social and economic life that are unquestionably matters of legislation through special decrees enacted in an abuse of power, or through simple "administrative resolutions" using legal loopholes. It is noteworthy that all of this has been done with the deliberate and confessed purpose of substituting the country’s institutional structures, as conceived by current legislation, with absolute executive authority and the total elimination of legislative authority;
b) It has consistently mocked the National Congress’s oversight role by effectively removing its power to formally accuse Ministers of State who violate the Constitution or laws of the land, or who commit other offenses specified by the Constitution, and;
c) Lastly, what is most extraordinarily grave, it has utterly swept aside the exalted role of Congress as a duly constituted power by refusing to enact the Constitutional reform of three areas of the economy that were approved in strict compliance with the norms established by the Constitution.
8. That it has committed the following assaults on the judicial branch:
a) With the goal of undermining the authority of the courts and compromising their independence, it has led an infamous campaign of libel and slander against the Supreme Court, and it has sanctioned very serious attacks against judges and their authority;
b) It has made a mockery of justice in cases of delinquents belonging to political parties or groups affiliated with or close to the administration, either through the abusive use of pardons or deliberate noncompliance with detention orders;
c) It has violated express laws and utterly disregarded the principle of separation of powers by not carrying out sentences and judicial resolutions that contravene its objectives and, when so accused by the Supreme Court, the President of the Republic has gone to the unheard of extreme of arrogating to himself a right to judge the merit of judicial sentences and to determine when they are to be complied with;
9. That, as concerns the General Comptroller’s Office—an independent institution essential to administrative legitimacy—the administration has systematically violated decrees and activities that point to the illegality of the actions of the Executive Branch or of entities dependent on it;
10. That among the administration’s constant assaults on the guarantees and fundamental rights established in the Constitution, the following stand out:
a) It has violated the principle of equality before the law through sectarian and hateful discrimination in the protection authorities are required to give to the life, rights, and property of all inhabitants, through activities related to food and subsistence, as well as numerous other instances. It is to note that the President of the Republic himself has made these discriminations part of the normal course of his government by proclaiming from the beginning that he does not consider himself the president of all Chileans;

Educate yourself Fabio, because what you posted about Allende is total fiction.
It's so easy to find the truth, and I posted it for you.
Straight from the elected representatives who denounced the dictatorship that Allende established, just like Adolf Hitler had.

Fuck off, fascist.

http://es.wikisource.org/wiki/Manifiesto_al_pa%C3%ADs_de_Salvador_Allende,_respondiendo_al_acuerdo_de_la_camara_de_diputados

An article in the New York Times on July 19, 2011 reported that Salvadore Allende committed suicide and was not killed by the military. No doubt to avoid public trial an execution for the murders committed by his marxist regime.

A new autopsy has determined that President Salvador Allende of Chile killed himself with an assault rifle, Chilean officials said Tuesday, dispelling doubts that have persisted for 37 years about the exact circumstances of his death, including whether troops storming the presidential palace had murdered him.

The forensic analysis, overseen by a team of Chilean and international experts, did not find any evidence that others were involved in Mr. Allende’s death, concluding that the head injuries he sustained were consistent with bullets fired from a single AK-47 assault rifle.

Even as leftist supporters like Fidel Castro declared that Mr. Allende died in a gun battle on Sept. 11, 1973, the day of the coup, his family members had long found credible the original autopsy and accounts of witnesses, including palace detectives and doctors, who said he had taken his own life before the military entered the palace.

Fabio, the next time you want your head handed to you after you post total and indefensible fantasies just let me know.

This demonstrates that there is no peaceful change possible with the bourgeoisie. The only language they know is violence, and they will use fascist coups and death squads to prevent peaceful socialist transformation.

This is very interesting, i like how there is so many people that share my passion for South America and Southeast Asia. However, i think we should seperate our (U.S) government's action and what we believe in. The policies of U.S during the Cold war was at best questionable, and at worst outright irresponsible.

As an Asian American, i am often horrify of what we did during that period of time. We were so paranoid about Communism, that we had continously supported authoritarian rightist government around the world, completely discounting all the brutalities in those countries. While on the other hand we preach the merits of Democracy, yet we don't practice them. So that makes us the biggest hypocrite and that's why many Latin American countries don't like us.

Funny how anyone with Europe in their handle could not mention Soviet actions in the Cold War.

Hungary/Czechoslovakia/Berlin Wall/and on and on. LOL!

Why would anyone be paranoid of a Soviet regime that killed tens of millions of its own people under Stalin, who in his Februrary 46 election speech declared the Soviet Union could not coexist peacefully with the West. LOL!

Europestudier, read a basic history of the 20th century will you. LOL!

Is there a more criminal regime in the 20th century than Stalin's? Hitler maybe, but Stalin certainly killed more people than Hitler. Adolf could never had started WWII without Stalin's cooperation in Poland.

I guess when you are a disciple of a failed leftist ideology fantasy, hyperbole, and outright lies are about all you have.

TC - do you acknowledge that the US government has done evil things [Y/N].

TC

thanks for rekindling my belief in child like wonderment. If anyone has the amazing power of imagination of a new brain it's you.

its like you're four
jesus

For the benefit of those of us libertarians who actually have functioning neurons, can we please stop referring to TC as a libertarian?

Thucy, take your kindergarten level questions to your group of closer personal friends who will find them stimulating.

Thucy, do you think a country that worked more slaves to death growing sugar and refused to end slavery much later than any other country in the world learned anything about exploitation and torture from the United States that wasn't already deeply ingrained in its corrupt, racist society?
I loved Fabio's bleeding heart post about the lilly white innocence of the Brazillians somehow corrupted completely and only by American.

You could write this kind of insanity if you were on LSD. Priceless stuff.

Evil incarnate on the planet earth, the communist government of Joseph Stalin in the Soviet Union.

It would be maybe instructive to make a list of deaths resulting from US interventions, direct and indirect, all around the world since 1945. In case of Hitler and even Stalin, one can argue that these were regimes, and pretty personalistic ones, but as for the US it doesn't matter much who's in charge. In fact, Kennedy's term was particularly terrible for Latin America.

TC - What about Batista, the Duvaliers, Somoza, Idi Amin, Mobutu, the apartheid, have they been democratically elected also?

Patizcool - Sure, I know personally some of you :-) I've lived some months in DC, in an student exchange program.

"TC - do you acknowledge that the US government has done evil things [Y/N]."

TC writes ''Anti-Americanism in the twenty-first century results from American dominance of the world's commercial sea lanes and resulting economic power. ''

Let's assume that there is a grain of truth in this. In this respect the US took over from Britain and such takeovers normally provke wars. Indeed, the US planned for just such a war, an element of which including the deployment of poison gas against Canada (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Plan_Red). Fortunately, as we know, this never happened and the economic superpower baton was passed peacefully.
With China fast coming up on the inside will we see another peaceful handing over of economic hegemony, do you think?

Fulhamish, not only is there a grain of truth in it, there are publications on the subject, but of course why would you take the time to "read" and "educate" yourself on the subject you post on?

And by the way the United States took control of the world's oceans as a result of a war, a war started by Hitler and Stalin when they carved up Poland, World War II. I wonder if you have ever heard of it.

As far as China you should read Kissinger's on China and George Friedan's voluminous writings on China.

http://finance.yahoo.com/tech-ticker/george-friedman-the-china-%E2%80%9Cmiracle%E2%80%9 -is-a-mirage-535854.html?tickers=FXI,EWH,PGJ,GXC,FXP,TNT,TBT

http://www.businessinsider.com/china-is-not-another-ascendant-superpower-its-just-another-nation-with-structural-problems-2009-4

http://historysquared.com/2011/01/25/stratfors-george-friedman-sees-trouble-ahead-for-china/

No substitute for reading.

So TC you predict the perminant economic hegemony of the US do you? Only I am sure that the British press was respendant with similar deregotary articles about the US economy before the fall. Let's hope that the Chinese are not preparing an analogous poison gas attack! ;-0

respendant = resplendent

I hope people here universally condemn and ban TC for his comments laughing in the face of a comrade who lost friends in the Pinochet regime. It is as loathsome as Fasces who laughed in the face of a guy who lost people on 9-11. Ban the fucker, now.

Could I humbly suggest that the roots of Anti-Americanism are people who express and demonstrate just the opinions and beliefs of the OP?

Ahh the United-States...land of the best and the worst that humanity has to offer.

I would suggest that comparing facts for facts is pointless (especially when comparing current actions with history) as anti-americanism is a perception. Comparing it with facts is a waste of time because perceptions are socialy conceived not given by nature.

I think anti-americanism is indeed linked in part to neo-colonialism, the new kind of global empire with military bases around the world and covert/overt action to overthrow leaders of countries that do not have a pro United-States/Western attitude. But that doesn't explain it all. This could be said of a lot of present day dominant countries (France, Great-Britain, China, Russia for example). I think what drives anti-americanism is also this cultural belief in self-righteousness. I agree that the United-States (note I do not use "America" because America is a continent and the propency of using it to refer to the United-States symbolize what I'm trying to get at: the idea that beside the United-States, everything else on the American continent is irrevelent, hence America = United-States). I agree that the United-States have brought a lot of positive things in the world. However I think it's this idea of Manifest Destiny, the idea that the world couldn't function without it. The idea that the United-States have the higher moral ground and the fact that they'll show it down your throath. I believe that's what's different about anti-americanism. The debate about who's better and who's worse is pointless. The US history and present actions are bringing as much good as evil in the world. Stating lists of each is, in my view, pointless facts.

In short, it's more of a resistance to cultural domination than either economic or military dominance...

+1 guillaume

you show deep insight, may I ask where are you from

I'm from the Quebec province of Canada. Sorry about the spelling mistakes, being culturally dominated, I had to learn a second language, the dominant one. (Just kidding here).

Fulhamish, I'm sorry I frustrated you to the point you had to start pointing out of your ass like " you predict the perminant economic hegemony of the US do you."
I mean if your arguments get destroyed and discredited try to have some backbone and intellect, but I guess that is beyond you.
As far as the Chinese I gave you titles and links where you could educate yourself by "reading" on the "subject under discussion."

Now if you want an education in geo-political economics read on,

Alfred Thayer Mahan was the first modern theorist to grasp that modern economic power relies on control of shipping lanes. The United States has dominated the world's shipping lanes for the last 65 years. The lack of a major world war in that time is directly related to America's interest in global economic growth. The economic prosperity of the Pax Americana is so vast that even the nation's we destroyed in WWII enjoy the most robust economic growth in their histories during that 65 year period.

The Untied States controlling the world's sea lanes and preventing military disruptions of free trade has brought the entire globe an unprecedented period of growth. Standards of living all over the globe have improved since 1945, (except of course in Marxist regimes like the Soviet Union, North Korea, and Cuba) Marxists could make money selling condoms in a brothel, but that's another story.
So there are reasons for the minority that has anti-American ideaology, but the vast majority of the globe embraces the Pax Americana as well they should. Who else to deliver what the US is delivery? China, Japan, Germany, Russia? What a joke.