The diary and letters I wrote when I experienced the Chilean 1973 military coup that ousted Salvador Allende. This coup d'etat, which, with the help of the CIA, was carefully planned by the Chilean elite, and included propaganda, economic sabotage, torture, total press censorship, assassination, and a radical free market revolution fostering gross income inequality, calls into question former President Jimmy Carter's thesis that America's values only became endangered under the government of George Bush Jr. See: Jimmy Carter, "Our Endangered Values: America's Moral Crisis" (2006).