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Ocasio-Cortez ‘RESET’ announcement – she says it’s planned

September 4, 2023 | | Print Article

U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) who now seems to fancy herself as an expert in geopolitics has called for the United States to formally apologize to Latin American countries for meddling in their politics.

The Democrat diva who recently returned from leading a “100% Spanish-speaking Congressional delegation to South America” during which she paid a visit to Chile, said that it was time to “reset” relations in advance of the 50th anniversary of the 1973 coup that toppled the country’s socialist leader, President Salvador Allende.

“I believe that we owe Chile, and not just Chile but many aspects of that region, an apology,” AOC told British newspaper The Guardian in an interview from her Bronx campaign headquarters. “I don’t think that apology indicates weakness; I think it indicates a desire to meet our hemispheric partners with respect.”

“It’s very hard for us to move forward when there is this huge elephant in the room and a lack of trust due to that elephant in the room,” the congresswoman continued. “The first step around that is acknowledgment and saying we want to approach this region in the spirit of mutual respect, and I think that’s new and it’s historic.”

Ocasio-Cortez’s remarks come after the State Department recently released previously classified documents shedding light on what former President Richard M. Nixon knew about the CIA-backed overthrow of Allende that led to the brutal reign of General Augusto Pinochet who led the Chilean military.

The “Squad” leader and her congressional delegation visited the Memory and Human Rights Museum in Santiago which remembers the victims who perished during Pinochet’s reign of terror where she called for the declassification of the documents last month.

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“The transparency of the United States could present an opportunity for a new phase in our relationship between the United States and Chile,” Ocasio-Cortez said in Spanish in a video that was posted to Instagram as she stood alongside a spokesperson for the leftist government led by President Gabriel Boric.

Among the documents that were released shortly afterward were Presidential Daily Briefs presented to Nixon on 9/11/1973, the day of the coup against Allende.

“The first element of it is just acknowledgement,” Ocasio-Cortez told The Guardian. “We’re not even at the point of an apology because we haven’t even gotten to an acknowledgement, and that’s why I believe the declassification of these documents is going to be so critical to our relationship to Chile, as well as also acknowledging the unified rightwing movements that the US has very much historically been exporting to Latin America. I don’t say that just in a governmental respect. I say that in terms of the rightwing movements that are growing in the United States.”

The Wall Street Journal, perhaps the sole remaining U.S. newspaper that is widely respected, referred to the trip as “AOC’s Socialist Sympathy Tour” and warned readers of what could be one of the key takeaways from the South American junket.

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“For Americans, it’s not what the congresswoman took to the region that’s disturbing. It’s what she might bring back—and I’m not talking about Covid-19. ‘We have much to learn from our counterparts in these countries, including how to confront disinformation and violent threats to our democracies,’ she said before setting off to Brazil, Colombia and Chile with 10 other congressional Democrats and staffers—including Sen. Bernie Sanders’s chief of staff,” the WSJ wrote.

The trip was organized by the left-wing Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington, D.C., according to the Los Angeles Times.

Ocasio-Cortez spoke to The Guardian about the construction of an international leftist “counterweight network” to promote “democracy” the bastardized term that has been hijacked by the ruthlessly authoritarian Democratic Party and used to cloak the oppression of domestic political opposition in a manner that General Pinochet would likely be proud of.

“I absolutely believe that the battle for democracy must be transnational and it must be global, and it especially must be hemispheric,” she said.

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