This gives new meaning to the term “command and control economy”. And it also shows that while Pinochet was obviously a repugnant and deplorable dictator, Allende wasn’t coloring with a full box of crayons, if you know what I mean.
On the other hand, if I were crazy enough to want to run for president — to say nothing of president of a South American country in the 1970s — then I’d probably also be crazy enough to want a situation room styled after the bridge of the U.S.S. Enterprise… which is exactly what I’d do to the Oval Office. Let no one claim the Republic wasn’t given fair warning!
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