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madame x

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May 15, 2020
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47 years ago, the democratically elected marxist chilean president salvador allende was overthrown violently by cia/kissinger backed forces, leading to one of the century's most brutal military dictatorships.

he gave millions in his country access to health care, education, and jobs. and for that reason, he had to be stopped.

rest in peace.

you can read the transcript of his final speech here:
inthesetimes.com

Salvador Allende’s Final Speech on Sept. 11, 1973

Chilean President Salvador Allende was the first democratically-elected Marxist president in Latin America. Here is his final speech before his death in the U.S.-backed coup by Augusto Pinochet.
 

NunezL

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Jun 17, 2020
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Yeah, as an Argentinian September 11th is always associated with the Chilean coup.
It bums me out...
 

Deleted member 23212

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Chile, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Panama, the list goes on. Latin America is one of the most notable, if not the most clear example of the United States' atrocities.
 

OneEyedKing

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Oct 25, 2017
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RIP

Truly disgusting how many people America has murdered over the years. Capitalism kills, and it kills far more than anything else.
 

djplaeskool

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Oct 26, 2017
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One of the most frightening things I've learned about US history later in life was the absolutely fucked acts of imperialism we inflicted on Central and South America...
 
Mar 31, 2018
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September 11, 1973 - 38254 people were tortured by order of the CIA, 3227 people were murdered, 200,000 people were exiled and 1169 people disappeared in suspicious circumstances. One of the interferences of the United States, which has already tried to seize power in dozens of countries.

Because of the Monroe doctrine, the United States has complete hegemony over Latin America. Their imperalistic policies have led to instability, low living standards and generally poor growth.

The United States, which we like to call a democratic country (but in reality it is a corrupt oligarchy), forces capitalism, which in fact only benefits the wealthy who exploit the work force, through, for example, extraordinary millitary investments (more than 12 countries combined: China, Russia, Saudi Arabia, United Kingdom, India, Japan, France, Germany, South Korea, Australia, Brazil and Italy, as well as more millitary spending than 144 countries combined). The United States also spies on foreign leaders (including within the European Union, as Edward Snowden proved) to keep them under control.

If we
- Want a higher quality of life and better well-being;
- want to protect our ecosystem by meeting sustainability requirements;
- want true DIRECT democracy (popular self-government), in which we as a community have full direct participation in laws and regulations (which requires full TRANSPARENCY, access to all necessary information - which currently does not exist).
- really want to be an added value for the entire community in general - not just for the benefit of the wealth of the elite.
then I ask you to break free from your chains and to make capitalism - mainly maintained by the United States which forces it in an immoral way - fall. If we do this through non-violent resistance (which I encourage wholeheartedly), we can inspire others to reach our final goal. If the United States falls, it creates a domino effect that affects the European Union and capitalist countries such as China (which is not communist at all), Russia and many others.
 

Tochtli79

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Jun 27, 2019
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Mexico City
Didn't learn about the coup and the dictatorship in Chile until university. An awful tragedy that deserves to be acknowledged and remembered worldwide to a much higher degree than it is.
 

Javier

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Oct 27, 2017
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Chile
FUCK YOU, PINOCHET.
FUCK YOU, U S A.
FUCK YOU, PIÑERA.
ACAB

We will get a new constitution, a new constitution that'll help to close some wounds left by those right-wing motherfuckers that used our country as their little "economic experiment" to prove capitalism works, which btw, it doesn't.
 

Chadtwo

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Oct 29, 2017
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www.google.com

Letters to the Editor: Salvador Allende's failed Chilean presidency is nothing to celebrate

Under the socialist Salvador Allende, the Chilean economy collapsed, resulting in a coup by Augusto Pinochet. This isn't worth celebrating.

And LA Times decides the right thing to do is to put up an article at 3am last night reminding us how evil he is, and that his was a "failed" administration. The fucking gall, why exactly did it fail again?

Edit: I guess this is a letter to the editor but there's no way it wasn't a conscious strategic choice to put this up
 

Chikor

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Oct 26, 2017
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Gonna repost it here too.

Don't forget that the US hired ex-Nazi agents to help train Pinochet's torture forces. Read up on Colonia Dignidad too:


We absorbed Nazi leadership, not defeated it.
We did it in a whole lot of places.
Klaus Barbie is one of the most famous cases, but America got in bed with actual Nazis immediately after ww2 in many many places. Mainly because no one hates communists like the Nazis.
 

Deleted member 46493

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Klaus Barbie is one of the most famous cases, but America got in bed with actual Nazis immediately after ww2 in many many places. Mainly because no one hates communists like the Nazis.
Yep. ~30 years before Allende, Allen Dulles (CIA director) was going under FDR's unconditional surrender policy and making sure the Nazis were able to help the CIA root out "communists" (as well as help funnel money out of Nazi Germany into Swiss bank accounts).

American 1%ers like the Bush or DuPont families also had Nazi financial ties. Capital only cares about itself.
 

Chikor

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Oct 26, 2017
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American 1%ers like the Bush or DuPont families also had Nazi financial ties. Capital only cares about itself.
And we mostly forgot about all of this.
JFK's father spent most of WW2 trying to broker peace between the US and Nazi germany, and JFK himself, well -

www.independent.co.uk

A Berliner in 1963 – but did former US president John F Kennedy once

The young JFK praised 'superior' Nordic races during visits to Germany

Rich people in the US, like most countries, were for the most part okay with fascism.
 

Shy

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Oct 25, 2017
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The title of the thread should be changed to, Murdered. Rather than died.

Also, pleasantly surprised there haven't been any defence force posts in here.
 

Icolin

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Oct 25, 2017
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Midgar
www.theguardian.com

Chilean coup: 40 years ago I watched Pinochet crush a democratic dream

How the drama and repression developed as a US-backed coup overthrew Allende's government on 11 September 1973
Edward Korry, the US ambassador in Santiago, reported to Henry Kissinger, the foreign strategist of President Richard Nixon: "Once Allende comes to power we shall do all within our power to condemn Chile and the Chileans to utmost deprivation and poverty."


fuck the united states of america and their imperialist capitalist garbage
 

Toxi

The Fallen
Oct 27, 2017
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Rest In Peace. One has to wonder what potential was destroyed that day.
 

Tlozbj

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Jun 26, 2020
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Puerto Rico
Chile, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Panama, the list goes on. Latin America is one of the most notable, if not the most clear example of the United States' atrocities.

Yep, go to any of the Greater Antilles and ask anyone of the dictatorships that US backed in those countries. The most horrendous potentially being Haiti's Papa Doc, followed by Dominican Republic's Trujillo, and Cuba's Fulgencio Batista.