Thursday, September 11, 2014

Here's Something To Remember

In the United States, we mourn those that were lost on September 11. However, many of us are unaware that for Chileans, September 11th had become a day of tragedy decades before.  In 1973, the Chilean army flew fighter jets over Santiago and bombed its own presidential palace during a coup to overthrow its own legal elected president, Salvador Allende.​ Augusto Pinochet, who Allende had appointed to Commander-in-Chief, seized power, put all political parties “in recess” and killed, tortured, disappeared and forced into exile thousands of Chileans. He would remained in power until 1990.

The United States played a significant role in both the coup and the dictatorship. In his book Dossier on Atrocity and Accountability, Peter Kornbluh, who directs the Chile documentation project at the National Security Archive, uses archival material and declassified documents to expose the complicity of the United States ...
Disgusting. Have these United Snakes no shame?

2 comments:

mikey said...

None other than Nobel winner Henry Kissenger arranged the American (lack of) repsonse, promising Pinochet that he had a free hand to operate.

In current terms, don't forget it was none other than Democratic Presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton who just this week gushed with praise for the old war criminal...

Weird Dave said...

Shorter war-criminal-who-should-be-staked-out-on-an-ant-hill-with-honey-smeared-on-his-balls: Pinochet? Pinochet? Nope, sorry. Don't believe I know him.

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