The Other 9/11: What Happened in Chile on September 11, 1973
The coup triggered 17 years of military rule, with more than 4,000 people killed and tens of thousands tortured or exiled, officials and historians say.
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To talk about September 11, 1973 is to talk about a before and after in the history of Chile....
The other September 11: Chile, Allende and the myth of the “peaceful road” to Socialism
By Nikos MottasThere is another September 11, one that communists, socialists and progressive people around the world remember for very different reasons from the date that dominates mainstream Western political memory. On 11 September 1973, in Santiago de Chile, a military coup led by General Augusto Pinochet, with the active support of the United States, overthrew the Popular Unity government of Salvador Allende.President Allende died heroical…
EDGARDO BARRIA Still in my memory are fresh those memories of September 11, 1973, when began the horrors of a military dictatorship accompanied by civilians who, for the most part, are on the right or center right, as they call themselves. That day I worked in the fleet office of the fishing Tarapacá, [...]
For most people in the Western world, September 11 is primarily associated with the terrorist attacks on the United States in 2001. But the date also carries the story of the military coup in Chile in 1973 – and the United States' role in the attempt to undermine a democratically elected government.
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