Overview

Nobody but the author would have dared to demand that the Chilean military revolution be given the same status as the French or the Russian Revolutions, for their worldly importance, that it deserves, both in socioeconomic matters, in which it pioneered, and even in human rights aspects. For the latter were used against Chile by the USSR and satellites, but finally derived in the main cause of the fall of the Berlin Wall and the iron curtain altogether. Ironically, communist regimes lasted less in time than the Pinochet and the junta government in Chile. The author, in his abundant and sustained writings for half a century in the prominent and traditional newspaper El Mercurio of Santiago, and in the last decade in blogdehermogenes.blogspot.com and his numerous books, has emphasized something that the mainstream media in his country and in the world have neglected: the extra cost imposed to Chile by its defense against the generalized, long, and violent terrorist armed aggression that was financed and promoted by countries such as Cuba, the USSR, and East Germany. This book also emphasizes the surprising fact that the Chilean revolution, which restored both the country's democracy and its economy, had to bear the cost of the Western countries taking sides with its enemies, imposing an extra burden on its defense against totalitarianism.