The Allende- Pinochet change...

I think I had mentioned before the stadium in Santiago, where the people who worked for allende were held and later killed when Pinochet was in power. Since then, I have talked to someone who had a cousin that was in the stadium because he had worked for Allende.

The man I was talking to had a father whose boss knew someone in the ministry of agriculture. His father asked him to do him a favor and save his nephew. So, the guy did, and his nephew was released from the stadium and sent to Argentina on a Project. Later, the same man was sent to Australia where he still lives...with no intentions of coming back to Chile.

The same man told me about Allende´s regime. He said, all the people had money, but it didn´t buy anything. People had to stand in lines for food, for flour, for meat...everything had a line. As a child, he thought the lines were a game....get the flour, now run to the other line and get the meat...Allende was a socialist and this is why the US helped overthrow his government. They were fighting against communism. So, then Pinochet took over, he was the savior...but, not really, because he killed alot of people.

Just interesting to learn and hear the stories...