Everyone who thinks the CIA single-handedly overthrew Chile’s Salvador Allende in 1973 should read this exhaustive essay by Vladimir Dorta over at the Chicago Boyz. For me, this was the clincher:
In March 1972, thirteen large wooden crates that came from Cuba
contained more than a ton of armaments for the Popular Unity (that were
stored even in Allende’s own presidential residence), and the arm
searches enforced by the military in 1973 revealed stockpiling of arms
by both the government and the opposition.
This sounds uncomfortably like what happened in Rwanda–there it was warehouses with boxes of Chinese agricultural tools machetes.
"It ain’t what folks know that’s the problem, it’s what they know that ain’t so." –Josh Billings
The Random Texan 
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