Harsh Measures Quotes
The popularly elected president Salvador Allende was a left leaning socialist and Nixon wanted a right wing Government in place who would deal more firmly with the communists. General Augusto Pinochet thus came to power, murdered Allende, and instituted a reign of terror with death squads, torture and disappearances, that eventually led him to be indicted for crimes against humanity.
Vladimir Lenin. Terrorism has been an instrument of dictatorial states in general and most revolutions. Speculators as used by Lenin at this time were not just businessmen or capitalists. They were people who bought up and hoarded scarce resources and food, waiting for worse shortage, and then selling their food or other goods at very high prices. Or they would take advantage of the fact that farmers did not have enough to eat and only give them food if why would sign over their land rights. Soon honest businessmen were treated like speculators because they made people less dependent on the party and the government. Stalin, who followed Lenin was even more extreme and had speculators, businessmen and landowners executed.
