Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, by HEINE Jorge
It’s hard to overestimate the role Henry Kissinger played in Chile. A former Chilean diplomat describes the mark that the powerful statesman made in his country and elsewhere in the Global South.
Noticing my nonappearance at the start of a black-tie dinner at the Johannesburg home of Harry (…)
, by FIDLER Richard
This year, on September 11, we mark the 50th anniversary of the coup in Chile. The violent military overthrow of the Popular Unity government put an end to a turbulent experiment in the parliamentary road to socialism initiated with the presidential election of Salvador Allende just three years (…)
, by EVANS Brad
State-sponsored disappearance plays into the most primal of human fears – to vanish without a trace. The modern era started with Chile’s US-backed coup on September 11 1973
For the few remaining women of Calama in Chile’s Atacama desert, September 11 holds a terrifying meaning. They understand (…)
, by AMADOR Roberto González, TOUSSAINT Éric
The coup against the government of Chile’s constitutionally elected president Salvador Allende, which marks its fiftieth anniversary this year, brought to a brutal and violent stop the course of several Latin American countries towards welfare states and sovereignty over their own natural (…)
, by MENDOZA Oscar
AS THE DATE nears when we’ll be marking half a century since the overthrow of the Salvador Allende government in Chile on September 11th, I’m taken back to that gray drizzly day when the future we had dreamt of disappeared in a wave of violence, death and repression. Fifty years on from the (…)
, by BENSAÏD Daniel, KELLAWAY Dave
This September marks the 50th anniversary of the US backed coup by Pinochet in Chile. It was one of the heaviest and bloodiest defeats ever suffered by the left and progressive movement in Latin America. There are a number of events being organised in Britain this year to remember and discuss (…)
, by MILIBAND Ralph
What happened in Chile on September 11, 1973 did not suddenly reveal anything new about the ways in which men of power and privilege seek to protect their social order: the history of the last 150 years is spattered with such episodes.
Even so, Chile has at least forced upon many people on the (…)
, by ROJAS Rene E.
The 1973 coup that toppled Salvador Allende’s Popular Unity (UP) government, unleashing a wave of repression that wiped out a generation of revolutionaries and working class activists, is receiving long-due attention in Chile’s official circles. Forty years after this watershed episode, (…)
, by BURBACH Roger
In Santiago on September 11, 1973 I watched as Chilean air force jets flew overhead. Moments later I heard explosions and saw fireballs of smoke fill the sky as the presidential palace went up in flames. Salvador Allende, the elected Socialist president of Chile died in the palace.
As an (…)
, by BURBACH Roger
On the morning of September 11 I watched aircraft flying overhead. Minutes later I heard explosive sounds and saw fireballs of smoke fill the sky. As a result of these attacks thousands died, including two good friends of mine.
I am not writing about September 11 2001 in New York City. On that (…)
, by LANDAU Saul
Landau recalls the 1973 CIA-sponsored coup in Chile that brought to power a military junta, and turned the country into the first laboratory of neoliberalism.
“Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull roots with spring rain.” — T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land
On (…)
, by MILIBAND Ralph
WHAT happened in Chile on 11 September 1973 did not suddenly reveal anything new about the ways in which men of power and privilege seek to protect their social order: the history of the last 150 years is spattered with such episodes. Even so, Chile has at least forced upon many people on the (…)
, by ALLENDE Salvador
The Spanish text (reproduced below second part) is the transcript of the last radio broadcast of Chilean President Salvador Allende, made on 11 September 1973, at 9:10 AM, before he killed himself during the US-backed coup that had Augusto Pinochet overthrow his socialist government. The (…)
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