They also had a strong embargo enforced by different countries that prevented them from signing any deals involving mainframes, it must be said.
There was always a work around for those embargos during the Cold War. I know someone who did time in the 80s for sending DEC kit to Bulgaria in crates marked "tractor parts".
My understanding is that it wasn't working particularly well anyways. The concept may have been ahead of it's time.
Didn't their economy plummet because of their president?
Looks like there's a golden rule - blame US for everything.
Actually, a US Senate committee has this to say on the topic two years later:
> The CIA attempted, directly, to foment a military coup in Chile.
Because that’s way easier than taking responsibility for your own mistakes? Based on my observations of human nature, that would be my bet.
This thread is downvote hell but I'll bite - blaming the US's extremely well known efforts in destabilizing the Middle East and Latin America for unrest, unstable government and stunted economic development in those regions is very fair. The "mistakes" many of these countries made were often along the lines of electing a left-leaning government or simply becoming stable regional power and interrupting Henry Kissinger's bizarre worldview about the balance of power. After the initial few "interventions" the chaos can feed itself for a few decades.
Oh the irony.
We should really stop blaming the US for backing coups in foreign countries, indeed.
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