#9/11/1973

[workersolidarity]

In case you feel like being completely sickened by the deprivation of the US Empire in its quest to remain a Global Hegemon, learn how the CIA engineered the Coup against Allende in Chile on Sept. 11th 1973, or how the US recruited (surprise!) literal Nazis from Germany who escaped to South America after the War to coup and destabilize Socialist governments across the Global South.

Nothing really new. We know for instance that various Nazi Commanders, U-Boat Commanders, Panzer Corps. Staff Officers and even a Goebbels Assistant were all recruited by NATO and became Commanders-in-Chief of Allied Forces in Central Europe and AFNORTH such as Friedrich Guggenberger, Sturmfuhrer Dr. Eberhard Taubert, Johann Von Kielmansegg, Karl Schnell, Ernst Ferber, Franz Joseph Schulze, Ferdinand Von Senger und Etterline, and Hans Speidel.

All were prominent Nazi Commanders, all became prominent NATO Commanders.

NATO is an Offensive Fascist Alliance. The US is a Fascist Empire.

The US is and has been for a long long time, a Fascist Empire with a smile, with useless elections where Wall Street controls the ballot so the outcome doesn't have to be controlled.

[flamequil]

Haven’t seen anything about it on my dash, but today’s the 50th anniversary of Agosoto Pinochet taking over Chile with US support. Pinochet maintained power in part by changing the Chilean constitution, and as a result Pinochet’s regime still affects Chile’s government despite pushes to correct it.

Wishing Chile all the best in establishing a new constitution.

[pasparal]

Venceremos—Solidarität mit dem Volk Chiles GDR stamp commemorating Chilean president Salvador Allende (1908–1973)

[cannibalsurprise]

Letter from a daughter to her disappeared-detainee dad. Circa 1973. Chile.

Dear Daddy:

I am sad because you’re not coming, daddy, I love you so so much, I’m waiting for you, because you’re good and not bad. Poor daddy. I remember you so much and I love you more.

Daddy, in school I got good grades and I study very hard, so you don’t have a lazy daughter, mommy says I have to be well-behaved and study a lot so you can come home. Lulu (her sister) and I don’t know why they took our daddy. Our mommy says that when we grow up we will understand, that now we are little and we gotta study.

I love you so much, and when you come back, we’re going out to play, with my sister we can’t be happy because you’re far away, I caught mommy crying, but she says it’s nothing. We are all sad.

A hug and a kiss from your daughter.

Little duck.

Sin perdón ni olvido.

[ghostzzy]

also happy suicide attempt day to louis du pointe du lac. i hope he & lestat are having crazy sex about it right now.

[blackcat-brazil]

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

[pistachio-pierrot]

unironically crazy that this scene exists

[jewish-microwave-laser]

te recordamos, victor jara

[nostalgiahime]

From the Simplicity Fashion News Booklet (March 1973), scanned by me

[31-minutos-de-blorbos]

Ánimo y fuerzas para todos los chilenos que perdieron familiares en la dictadura

Para los que fallecieron, desaparecieron, los que fueron obligados a hacer el servicio militar y los que han sido lastimados por esa época

Ánimo para la familia de Víctor Jara, ánimo a todos los inocentes que no pudieron dar más de sí... Da igual tu postura política, si defiendes la dictadura o no, si defiendes el golpe de Estado o no, si defiendes que se haya terminado la Unidad Popular... Chilenos unidos, por todos los que sufren aquellas pérdidas

[nando161mando]

Don't forget the other 9/11

[callese]

[angelfacemjj]

Am I the only one who gives a shit more to Chilean 9/11 than the United Stadian one?

[t-i-m-e-l-o-o-p]

[kropotkindersurprise]

The song being played here, during the riots against the neoliberal Piñera government, is El Derecho de Vivir en Paz (The Right to Live in Peace), written by Chilean communist artist Victor Jara. Jara was tortured and murdered in 1973 by the right-wing neoliberal junta led by Pinochet, after the USA-supported coup that overthrew the socialist government of Salvador Allende.

November 2019 - Protesters in Chile bring a bard to their riot. [video]