Opinion

The Global South hasn’t forgotten Kissinger

I did not personally experience the violence that Henry Kissinger helped unleash on Latin America in his day. But I witnessed some of the collateral damage.

The children of exiles from Argentina, Uruguay, Bolivia and beyond crowded into my high school in Mexico City. The grandson of Chilean President Salvador Allende, deposed in a U.S.-backed coup in 1973, was just a couple of years behind me. It is not difficult for me to write that Kissinger was an abomination.