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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.
The other 9/11: lessons from Chile - Daily Friend
As pundits around the world mull over the long consequences of the 9/11 terrorist attacks in the United States twenty-five years ago, it is worth considering that "other 9/11," when it was the United States that backed a terrorist attack that toppled democracy in Chile back in 1973. With Afrobarometer last October reporting that 49% of all South Africans would prefer a camouflage-clad junta to a business-suited cabinet in the Union Buildings, it…
September 11, 1973 marks one of the darkest episodes in Latin America's history: the fall of Chilean democracy, the siege of the La Moneda Palace and the beginning of a military dictatorship that redefined Chile's social, political and economic structures through state terror. The coup ... Continue reading →
51 years have passed since the fascist coup d'état in Chile, the killing of President Salvador Allende, the establishment of a military dictatorship wanted by the United States that tortured and killed ...
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