The OTHER September 11th ....... 1973

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I wanted to remember those lost and grieving still, after all these years, when the democratically elected government of Chili was overthrown (with US Support) so that the dictator Pinochet (backed by the US) could sit in power.

My thoughts and prayers with the people of Chile.

My intent is not to take away the grieving of the people affected by the tragedy of 2001, but to give acknowledgment to those people whose grief is so often overlooked and whose history is so often forgotten in the US and Canada. My hope is that we learn and remember what happens beyond our own borders (especially when these events are often directly linked to our own governments).

CR.

It was bad bit it had to happen to prevent all of South America from going red. The region was crawling with US spooks at the time but they did not participate in the coup itself.

Not sure the mothers of children abducted and killed by the Pinochet regime or by the Paraguayan dictator Alfredo Stroessner or Argentinian dictator Peron would agree with your oponion. Among the less savory acts these dictators committed was to harbor ex Nazis like Josef Mengele, Boorman and Eichmann in their respective countries.

holy s**t. as if politics or despots were a threat. they are mere pawns in the global chess game.

you sound like you get your history from Wikipedia.

No, this was actually a case study in a college class I took.

Welcome to the NT mind.

By 1973 Brazil had been firmly under the Right's control after Joao Goulart was deposed by a CIA-backed military coup on 31 March 1964. Juan Peron's second go around had begun that was to culminate in his death, Isabel Peron's ineffective rule and the Dirty War waged by Generals Videla, Viola and company after the 1977 coup. The Ford Falcons and all of that.

The worst thing that happened to Chile was the psychopathic economic experimentation. Much of it collapsed in the early 1980s when Pinochet was forced to nationalise more of the economy than was nationalised under Allende! They still went back to the neoliberal model and to this day they're protesting and striking against it. The level of trust in Chilean society is the lowest there is according to a recent survey, a legacy of inequality and neoliberalism. I wonder if the recent mining disaster/miracle has awakened people to the real darkness that right wing neoliberal economics under Pinochet has cast upon the country.

So I guess you are supporting Anders Behring Breivik's deeds in Norway, then, as well? He says the same thing - it was terrible, but it had to be done.