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Kissinger’s obsession with Chile enabled a murderous dictatorship that still haunts the country

  • Written by Jorge Heine, Interim Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, Boston University
imageChilean dictator Augusto Pinochet greets U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger in 1976.Bettmann/Getty Images

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