{"id":19,"date":"2023-09-12T22:54:17","date_gmt":"2023-09-13T03:54:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/dt0006\/?p=19"},"modified":"2023-09-12T22:54:17","modified_gmt":"2023-09-13T03:54:17","slug":"50-years-of-chiles-9-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/dt0006\/2023\/09\/12\/50-years-of-chiles-9-11\/","title":{"rendered":"50 Years of Chile\u2019s 9\/11."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

One of South Americas bloodiest periods couldn\u2019t have happened without the U.S.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yesterday, perhaps the most tragic moment in Chilean history celebrated it’s 50th anniversary as government officials from all over the continent and<\/a> <\/a>t<\/a>h<\/a>o<\/a>u<\/a>s<\/a>a<\/a>n<\/a>d<\/a>s<\/a> <\/a>o<\/a>f<\/a> people held a moment of silence in front of the Palacio de La Moneda<\/a>, to honor the victims of a bloody military dictatorship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On September 11th<\/sup> 1973, the palace was bombarded and invaded by Chilean military forces, in an attempt to remove the then president, Salvador Allende, who barricaded himself inside the building and broadcasted one last message to his people<\/a>, before ending his own life. What followed soon after was a full on dictatorship led by General Augusto Pinochet, who left behind at least 40 thousand victims.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The United States involvement in the coup is a well-known fact, and it comes out as one of the country\u2019s most hypocritical acts. In its recent article remembering the coup, the New York Times stated<\/a>: \u201cWhile there is no evidence of direct American Involvement in the coup, the Nixon administration made sure to create a coup climate as soon as Mr. Allende won the presidential election on Sept. 4, 1970, according to declassified U.S. documents.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Said \u201cindirect\u201d involvement provided by the United States included action such as propaganda campaigns, instigating a coup, bribing members of congress, blocking loans to Chile, offering secret funds to foment strikes and offering full support to the Chilean military in the case of a strike. As stated by the then director of the C.I.A. Richard Helms, they were to \u201cmake the economy scream\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A recent article from Brazilian newspaper Folha de Sao Paulo<\/a>, dates U.S. involvement to even before Allende had stepped into power, saying that \u201cMeetings between the president of the United States Richard Nixon and the then owner of the El Mercurio newspaper Augustin Edwards dated back to even before Allende was in power\u201d and \u201cSaid meetings had the goal of finding a way to stop Allende from taking office. In one of these meetings, for example, the assassination of general Rene was planned, a constitutionalist that considered that the military should respect the result of the polls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The NY times first acknowledged that the coup had a link with the C.I.A in an article published on September 20th<\/sup> 1974<\/a>, in which they mention that the organization had been financing strike labor unions and trade groups in Chile for more than 18 months before the president was overthrown, with more than $8 million dollars authorized for clandestine C.I.A activities being used in Chile between 1972 and 1973, but also mentioning that: \u201cThe Times’s sources, while readily, acknowledging the intelligence agency’s secret support for the middle classes, insisted that the Nixon Administration’s goal had not been to force an end to the Presidency of Mr. Allende\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All in all, the coup led to a dark period in Chile\u2019s history, where during the 17 years under Pinochet\u2019s government, more than 40 thousand people were killed, tortured, disappeared, or were made political prisoners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In recent years, historical revisionists all over South America have been trying to downplay harsh periods of dictatorship rule that happened inside the continent, (such as Bolsonaro in Brazil), so it\u2019s important more than ever now, that the people don\u2019t let the memories of what happened to fall into forgetfulness, and to ensure such years should never happen again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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