Posted on Sep 17, 2023
Newshour - 'It is a day when I should have died and didn't' - BBC Sounds
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11 September is a tremendously significant date in Chile. In 1973 - 50 years ago - military officers, led by General August Pinochet, overthrew the democratically elected government of the left-wing president, Salvador Allende.
General Pinochet would remain in power for the next 17 years, turning his country into a poster-child for neo-liberal economics - but it also became a country known for a regime of fear epitomised by the tactic of "disappearing" suspected dissidents.
Ariel Dorfman is Professor Emeritus of Literature at Duke University in the United States; his most recent novel, The Suicide Museum, investigates the death of President Allende. But, in 1973, he was the media and cultural adviser to Mr Allende's chief of staff and he told Newshour's Tim Franks about what the date and the coup mean to him.
General Pinochet would remain in power for the next 17 years, turning his country into a poster-child for neo-liberal economics - but it also became a country known for a regime of fear epitomised by the tactic of "disappearing" suspected dissidents.
Ariel Dorfman is Professor Emeritus of Literature at Duke University in the United States; his most recent novel, The Suicide Museum, investigates the death of President Allende. But, in 1973, he was the media and cultural adviser to Mr Allende's chief of staff and he told Newshour's Tim Franks about what the date and the coup mean to him.
Newshour - 'It is a day when I should have died and didn't' - BBC Sounds
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No comparison to January 6th. Thousands of people died at the hands of the right wing government. Many of them moved to Canada. There are many Canadians of chilean, argentine, salvadorian, Nicaraguan, Guatemalan, Cuban and now Mexican heritage who are escaping the drug war, the dirty war, and the murder that both left and right wing governments did. Currently in the left wing government of nicaragua, the president is a dictator and his wife is Vice President. They overthrew samosa in 1979 but the Communist Regime is no better today.
https://www.britannica.com/event/Dirty-War
LTC Trent Klug SFC John Davis
https://www.britannica.com/event/Dirty-War
LTC Trent Klug SFC John Davis
Dirty War | Definition, History, & Facts
Dirty War, infamous campaign waged from 1976 to 1983 by Argentina’s military dictatorship against suspected left-wing political opponents in which an estimated 10,000 to 30,000 citizens were killed, many of whom were ‘disappeared.’ Learn more about the Dirty War in this article.
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