Chileans bemoan globalized revolution

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The political center-left has held office in Chile for 17 years, since the end of the dictatorship of Gen. Augusto Pinochet. But many on the left are disenchanted with a corporate-friendly government firmly dedicated to free trade and warm relations with Washington.

Adding his discontent this week was the septuagenarian Carlos Altamirano, an ex-senator and key ally of the late President Salvador Allende, ousted in Pinochet’s 1973 coup and widely regarded as a martyr of the left.

Lamented Altamirano in the Santiago daily Las Ultimas Noticias: ``The revolution of wine and empanadas of Allende has been transformed into a revolution with the taste of Coca-Cola and the flavor of McDonald’s.’’

Posted by Patrick J. McDonnell in Santiago, Chile