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Bernie Sanders in 2003: if you
check American history, you know,

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sometimes the President will tell you
well, we are always

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defenders of freedom,
we believe in freedom. But if

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you check history, what you will find
is that in many years, especially

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in Latin America,
which way back from when President Monroe

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developed his Monroe Doctrine,
we have the right to own Latin America

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and we will tell the
government that what we want to

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happen, that's the simple truth.
So throughout our history, we have

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overthrown many, many governments
we didn't like their form of

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government. In the case of Chile,
in 1973, what you had is a an election,

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in which a guy named Salvador
Allende won the election. Problem

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is, Nixon and his friends didn't like him.
Why? Because Salvador Allende

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fought for the poor people and the
working people of their country.

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He believed that the resources of
Chile, their copper mines

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and so forth should belong to
the people and he won a free

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election. No one denied that for a
second, was a tough election didn't

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win by much, but he won a free
election There was another election

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His party got more support.
He was overthrown by the CIA and

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corporate interests,
because corporate interests

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preferred, of course,
that the United States companies dominate

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that country. And a lot of what
politics is about going way, way

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back to the 19th century through
England, France, is the domination

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of colonies, so that big companies
in a given country can take the

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resources of those countries for
their own use. So I think that's

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what happened. And it was a very
unfortunate day in American history.

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Allende won in a democratic election,
was popular, was overthrown and

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eventually killed. And in his place
a guy named General Pinochet took

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place ran that country with an iron
fist, killed many, many people,

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but he was okay. He
was a good guy. Why?

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Because he was a
friend of corporate America.