Of course I have to get sucked into this. Dictators always have their simps, people looking through rose colored glasses and deliberately ignore or downplay their atrocious acts, and talk nostalgically good old days when there was no crime, etc. etc. People like that can seem great especially when liberalism seems to be faltering or a corrupt socialist dictatorship implodes and everyone else is left to lick up the pieces. When the dictators simps are well connected enough and can spread their message people will listen.
As for the second quote, all Hurtado was saying was that the declassified evidence from CIA archives doesn’t show the same level of direct coordinating and planning for the Chilean coup like it does for others in the region. The Nixon administration, however did send the message that they wanted it to happen, weren’t going to oppose it, and that they would really really like it if the military did it.