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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: “Pinochet did not act on his own. You had Henry Kissinger…”

Featuring: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Democratic | U.S. House, New York, District 14

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Published | Video Starts at 39:14

And we have to understand, and there was so much that we were doing that had to deal with addressing US interventionism in the 1970s and the 1980s and in other decades. And it's important that we learn from that, because Pinochet did not act on his own. You had Henry Kissinger, who was an author of much of the interventionist US Policies. that involved regime change throughout the world. And when you look at Henry Kissinger and Nixon's and the Nixon administration and Henry Kissinger's time and the fact that it is … (39:14–39:32)

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Asserts that Henry Kissinger was involved in US interventionist policies that supported Pinochet.

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