#Pinochet

[comradegarf]

50 years ago, today, the "other 9/11" took place in Chile

It was on this day that the democratically elected socialist Salvador Allende and his government was overthrown by C.I.A backed fascists, led by Augusto Pinochet.

Pinochet's regime would play straight into the hands of U.S imperialists and businessmen, implementing neo-liberal reforms that drove millions into poverty, persecuting leftists and labour activists, imprisoning and torturing and murdering tens of thousands of innocent people.

Remember the victims.

Remember those who knew and supported what was being done.

Remember that this is what spreading "freedom" and "democracy" means to the United States.

#chile #9/11 #september 11th #terrorism #pinochet #socialism #working class history #usa #imperialism #CIA

[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.

#chile #9/11 #11/9 #I #If no tragedy is more relevant than the other #why is only one of these two receiving attention? #Im not saying that one tragedy is more important #I saying that historically speaking the media makes it look like that #golpe de estado #allende #pinochet #911 #september 11 #latinoamerica #Operation Condor

[probablyasocialecologist]

Israel’s role in Pinochet’s brutality is still clouded in some mystery since Israel refuses to release a full accounting of its role, but enough documents have been released to reveal a sordid relationship between Israel and the Chilean junta. Israel did not just train Chilean personnel to aid the repression of its own people. After a US arms embargo against Chile passed the US Congress in 1976, a cable from the US Embassy in Chile on April 24, 1980, acknowledged that Israel was a major arms supplier to Pinochet. Another US cable, on April 10, 1984, quoted the American undersecretary of state as saying that Israel was still one of the main weapons suppliers to the regime. This steady stream of defense equipment undercut any potential benefits of the US arms embargo because Israel was not part of the deal.

Antony Loewenstein, The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World

#israel #pinochet #the palestine laboratory

[degeneratedworker]

"They violate human rights!" Soviet Union 1977

#propaganda #poster #vintage #imperialism #capitalism #communism #socialism #anti american #america #pinochet #coup #soviet union #russia #ussr #us #racism #cia #somoza #latin america #human rights

[feckcops]

Workers around the world can stand up for Palestinians

“Understanding what is happening in Palestine is only part of the battle — we must also think about how we can take action in solidarity with the Palestinian people.

“In recent days, Palestinian trade unions have called on workers around the world to demand an ‘end to all forms of complicity with Israel’s crimes’ by taking action to disrupt the flow of weapons to the Israeli war machine.

“There are several Israeli weapons companies located across the UK, including Elbit Systems, which has frequently been targeted by Palestinian organizers. UK weapons manufacturers like BAE Systems are also involved with the construction of technology being used against Palestine. The Campaign Against the Arms Trade (CAAT) and other NGOs have compiled data that shows the embeddedness of British industry in producing weapons for use by Israel.

“The very least Palestine should be able to expect from the world in terms of solidarity is an end to their active complicity in the terror being unleashed by the Israeli state. It is critical that British trade unions express solidarity with Palestine — and consider ways to disrupt the shipment of arms to Israel.

“There is a long tradition of such international solidarity within the labor movement. In the 1970s, workers in a factory manufacturing jets being used by Pinochet’s brutal authoritarian regime announced a boycott of shipments to Chile. More recently, unionized workers in Italy, South Africa, and the United States refused to load shipments of arms headed to Israel.

“It is easy to think of these as small, isolated actions that do little to arrest the functioning of the global arms trade. However, history has shown that actions, however small, can be of outsized importance in placing material limitations on the criminal actions of states.”

#free gaza #free palestine #from the river to the sea #occupation of palestine #israeli occupation #genocide #israeli war crimes #war crimes #israeli apartheid #gaza #elbit systems #bae systems #arms manufacturers #trade unions #unions #workers of the world #pinochet #israel #palestine #middle east

[redshift-13]

As Henry Kissinger reaches 100 years of age on May 27, Chileans are preparing to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the bloody military coup that the former US national security adviser helped orchestrate in September 1973. Kissinger’s controversial career is littered with scandals and crimes against humanity: support for mass murderers and torturers abroad, domestic wiretapping, clandestine wars in Indochina, and, as Greg Grandin reminds us, secretly sabotaging the quest for peace in Vietnam. But his pivotal role in the covert US efforts to undermine democracy in Chile, aiding and abetting the rise of the infamous dictator Augusto Pinochet, will always be the Achilles’ heel of Kissinger’s much-ballyhooed legacy.

More at the link.

#chile #vietnam #henry kissinger #us foreign policy #american opposition to democracy #human rights #pinochet

[leftistfeminista]

Despite the brutal ways the Pinochet Junta specifically targeted women, women bravely continued to protest and resist.

Protesting the Chile coup, International Women's Day 1985

#chile #pinochet

[progressivemillennial]

Rest in piss! Finally!

#politics #us politics #history #war #henry kissinger #kissinger #war criminal #mass murder #vietnam war #vietnam #cambodia #nixon #richard nixon #chile #pinochet #augusto pinochet #argentina #bangladesh #pakistan #laos #war crimes #injustice #progressive #foreign policy #operation condor #rest in piss #RIP

[theexodvs]

Even if Spain was responsible for the destruction of the USS Maine (it wasn't), the Spanish-American War was worse.

Pearl Harbor was bad. Nagasaki and Hiroshima were worse.

The policies Allende would have implemented would have been bad. The US installing Pinochet was worse.

What David Koresh did was bad. What the FBI did in response was worse.

9/11 was bad. The War on Terror is worse.

Many of the things Sadaam did were bad. Bush's lies about WMDs, and the war these lies justified, were worse.

What Hamas did was bad. What the IDF is doing in response is worse.

This isn't hard, people.

#disproportionate retribution #spanish american war #USS Maine #Pearl har #Nagasaki #Hiroshima #Salvador All #augusto pinochet #Pinochet #David K 0 resh #Waco Siege #War on Terror #Sadaam #George Bush #Bush 43 #War in Iraq #WMD #israel hamas war

[mariwatchesmovies]

El Conde (2023) dir. Paul Larraín

#cinema #film #cinematography #screencaps #movies #film stills #black and white #pablo larraín #Jaime Vadell #pinochet #vampire movies #Edward Lachman

[lesmachins]

Santiago, Chile, September 1973: after the coup, soldiers force people at gunpoint to remove Unidad Popular wall texts

#chile #dictatorship #pinochet #koen wessing

[thursdayisbetterthanfriday]

Project CyberSyn - Chillean Cybernetics

Project CyberSyn was a Chilean socialist effort led by Salvador Allende to direct the national economy using cybernetic systems - bypassing multinational companies to create an egalitarian economy. Its designers aimed to preserve worker and lower-management autonomy instead of implementing a top-down system of centralised control. As per usual in the late 20th century, Allende got coup’ed by a United States backed dictator and the project was left to rot. It was, however, a huge inspiration on the creation of Silicon Valley. British management cybernetics expert Stafford Beer was involved in this effort - effectively creating a practical version of his Viable System Model VSM.

This podcast is a great primer on CyberSyn and the context surrounding it.

https://the-santiago-boys.com/episodes

#cybersyn #stafford beer #cybernetics #cybernetic #computing #computer science #salvador allende #allende #pinochet #chile

[probablyasocialecologist]

On September 15, 1973, it infamously declared that: “The temporary death of democracy in Chile will be regrettable, but the blame lies clearly with Dr Allende. . . . Their coup was homegrown, and attempts to make out that the Americans were involved are absurd.” Over the following months, the Economist continued its apologia for the Pinochet government by countering Western critics of the dictatorship’s human rights record, and flattering its international credibility. Under the header “They mustn’t forget why they struck down Allende,” the magazine announced in October 1973 that: “The junta has been the victim of a campaign of organised hostility in the west as well as of its own mistakes”. The article continued: “Perhaps the imposition of martial law, the mass interrogations and the summary execution of snipers would not have aroused so much criticism if there were a clearer understanding of the events that precipitated the coup.” Meanwhile, the Economist helped to shift responsibility for the coup onto the Chilean left by propagating the claim that “the extremists in the Allende government were preparing an insurrection of their own ‘to complete the revolution.’” It continued: “The only doubt is whether Dr Allende himself would have played the role of Lenin or Kerensky if that had finally come about.”

#chile #pinochet #salvador allende #the economist

[ferranhumor]

Demonios

Fuente viñeta: Diario RED

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#cóndor #chile #cielo #cono sur #demonio #derecha #dictador #EEUU #infierno #kissingir #patio #pinochet #san pedro

[dkingsphoto]

Romería a Cementerio General, a 50 años del golpe de Estado en Chile.

Santiago de Chile - 10 de septiembre 2023

#50añosgolpedeestado #50añosgolpemilitar #50añosdelgolpe #50 años del golpe #11 de septiembre #romería cementerio general #dictadura #coup #allende #pinochet #salvador allende #detenidos desaparecidos #chile #chilegram #chilean #protesta #riot #demonstration #chilephoto #tumblr chilensis #chile fotos #chileinsta #santiago de chile #tumblr chilenito #cementerio general #chile tumblr #chileno #chilensis #chilenx

[mesadeanalisisydesarrollo]

Víctor Jara entre las primeras victmas del pinochetazo.

Víctor Jara entre las primeras victmas del pinochetazo.

Víctor Jara, a 90 años de su nacimiento Víctor Jara entre las primeras victmas del pinochetazo en Chile 1973. Quisieron apagar su voz libertaria asesinandolo, ocrrio todo lo contracio. Su musica y su voz se agiganto esparciendose de pueblo en pueblo llevando el mensaje de lucha y resistencia contra los verdugos y negadoresde la libertad y el libre albeldrio de los pueblos que se enrumban por…

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#¡LIBERTAD! #Chile #Justicia social #Pinochet #Visctor Jara