Dated Feb. 27, 1951, the United States Department of State’s policy statement declared that the government’s official policy was “to strengthen the idea both in the Chilean Government and among the Chilean people that the interests of the United States and Chile are fundamentally the same.” The document continues with approval for then President Gabriel Gonzalez Videla’s move to outlaw the Chilean Communist Party in 1948 under the Defense of Democracy law. “While we do not necessarily advocate the outlawing of the Communist Party as the most effective way of combating communism, we have expressed a view to the Chileans that every government should meet this threat in the manner it deems most appropriate.”
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