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   We touched down near a graveyard on a bluff above the sea. A graceful steam ship crested the horizon. I felt we were children lost in wonder. Claudia led us down a white stone path framed by twenty-foot manicured cypresses. “The Doctor and the CIA had done their best to start a coup before Allende was inaugurated. The commander in chief of the army, general Rene Schneider spurned the CIA's demand that he overthrow Allende. He refused to subvert the constitution and actually backed Allende’s victory as the only thing that would prevent an insurrection by the Chilean people themselves. He was assassinated for his courage. Edward Korry, the US ambassador to Chile was incensed with Allende. He sent crazed letters to your president Nixon. ‘There is a graveyard smell to Chile, the fumes of democracy in decomposition.’ and his threats were visceral. ‘Not a nut or a bolt shall reach Chile. Once Allende comes to power, we shall do all in our power to condemn Chile and all Chileans to the utmost deprivation and poverty.’ Hand in hand, the military, the CIA and American corporations planned Allende’s downfall. The CIA’s Project FUBELT worked to embargo Chilean copper in foreign ports. It funded mass media propaganda and fascist paramilitary groups who sabotaged railroads, bridges and power lines. A lock down of the country's industry was staged to instigate an economic crisis that would force Allende out. The workers responded by running the farms and industry themselves, without the owners and managers. They protected the infrastructure from sabotage and distributed food directly to the people. Nixon was enraged and the Doctor obliged by arranging the cancellation of all foreign aid to my country.”