#allende

[milfstalin]

[spfigueroa]

GUERRILLA RADIO

Chilean people protest against Augusto Pinochet's military dictatorship, 1970s-1980s.

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phenomenal first impression

[valhalla-awaitsfor-us]

I hope that no one takes the posts that I reblogged as meaning that I don't care about what happened on 9/11 in the USA. I remember being 3 years old and watching television and not understanding what was happening but crying when I saw so much suffering.

However, I do believe that it is important to give MUCH more visibility to the military coup in Chile than what the media gives it on this date (Both happened on the same day, different years). It is worrying how the entire world only talks about what happened in the USA while many, including the gringos themselves, do not even know what their own government did not only in Chile but throughout Latin America. The millions of dead and missing people that affect us to this day. Look for Operation Condor if want to know what happened here not that long ago.

"Never forget" seems like a phrase only applicable to the United States and the rest of the "first world", while the crimes committed here by their imperialist governments seem irrelevant in their school history books.

[deadpresidents]

Today is a good day to remember Salvador Allende, the democratically-elected President of Chile, who died in September 1973. Allende most likely shot himself in the La Moneda Presidential Palace in Santiago when he could no longer fight off the forces of General Augusto Pinochet as they executed a violent coup heavily supported by the United States and Henry Kissinger. Pinochet then ruled Chile as an American-supported "anti-communist" military dictator for nearly two decades in which tens of thousands of Chileans were killed, jailed, or simply disappeared.

Allende, a socialist, was popularly elected as Chile's President with promises to strengthen democracy in Latin America and institute significant economic, education, and health reforms in order to dramatically improve the social welfare of the Chilean people. Some American leaders, like Henry Kissinger, saw him as a potential threat -- a South American version of Fidel Castro -- and the CIA begin laying the groundwork for eventual regime change.

The biggest problem with Allende, in Kissinger's mind, was the very fact that he was freely and democratically elected. In a memo to President Nixon that is still somewhat shocking to read, Kissinger wrote that "Allende was elected legally...He has legitimacy in the eyes of Chileans and most of the world; there is nothing we can do to deny him that legitimacy or claim he does not have it." Kissinger then reminds Nixon that "We are strongly on record in support of self-determination and respect for free election; you are firmly on record for non-intervention in the internal affairs of this hemisphere and of accepting nations 'as they are.'" Then he spends several pages outlining ways in which to undermine, delegitimize, and potentially eliminate "the Problem." After all, as Kissinger wrote shortly before Allende was elected, "I don't see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its people. The issues are much too important for the Chilean voters to be left to decide for themselves."

[tabitha1917]

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L'autre 11 septembre

[shotofstress]

USA has been prepared to be in the shit long time (which is litte time in how imperialism and capitalism plans). And it has put all their survival in South America. That's why the miliry bases have growth in number in the last 10 years, the cultural propaganda appealing to """latino""" (yankis by all means really) characters, actors and musicians, the rise of religious organizations and yanki ONGs, the pope is a yanki even, not just a capitalist head now and the one before him was an argentinian that betrayed his own compatriors and helped the US backed dictatorship during Plan Condor. The people thinking USA is dying clearly don't know history and, as always, forgot about South America because no one in the world care about us, only remember us when they need to abduct childre, rape, and do their "spiritual" crap. No one thinks or cares really about how USA exist still is thanks to our enslavement. Yankiland could be bombed today, and would still survive thanks to having South America in chains with neoliberalism, militars, religions, and usa culture and desires aka propaganda via movies, music, tv shows, books, internet, etc. Especially with religion and fraccionary/reaccionary identities now more than ever.

So, don't cheer bc usa, sadly, is not gonna be death in the next decades. Unless the communists of world really fucking do something (bc ppl here has been transformed in imbeciles with usa culture and we don't have weapons nor nuclear bombs), but they are not gonna do anything. They did nothing in the genocides between the 60s and 90s, even less now. After all, we are the backyard of the world as a whole.

If people want to stop USA, america latina must become one and global south help us and as a whole, finally, be communist. Eastern Europe too bc western euro never gonna stop killing us. Union and liberation of South America is the only path to end usa.