#allende

[antifatabi]

[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.

[postcard-from-the-past]

View of San Miguel de Allende, Mexico

Mexican vintage postcard

[deadpresidents]

Today is a good day to remember Salvador Allende, the democratically-elected President of Chile, who died in September 1973. Allende most likely shot himself in the La Moneda Presidential Palace in Santiago when he could no longer fight off the forces of General Augusto Pinochet as they executed a violent coup heavily supported by the United States and Henry Kissinger. Pinochet then ruled Chile as an American-supported "anti-communist" military dictator for nearly two decades in which tens of thousands of Chileans were killed, jailed, or simply disappeared.

Allende, a socialist, was popularly elected as Chile's President with promises to strengthen democracy in Latin America and institute significant economic, education, and health reforms in order to dramatically improve the social welfare of the Chilean people. Some American leaders, like Henry Kissinger, saw him as a potential threat -- a South American version of Fidel Castro -- and the CIA begin laying the groundwork for eventual regime change.

The biggest problem with Allende, in Kissinger's mind, was the very fact that he was freely and democratically elected. In a memo to President Nixon that is still somewhat shocking to read, Kissinger wrote that "Allende was elected legally...He has legitimacy in the eyes of Chileans and most of the world; there is nothing we can do to deny him that legitimacy or claim he does not have it." Kissinger then reminds Nixon that "We are strongly on record in support of self-determination and respect for free election; you are firmly on record for non-intervention in the internal affairs of this hemisphere and of accepting nations 'as they are.'" Then he spends several pages outlining ways in which to undermine, delegitimize, and potentially eliminate "the Problem." After all, as Kissinger wrote shortly before Allende was elected, "I don't see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its people. The issues are much too important for the Chilean voters to be left to decide for themselves."

[kropotkindersurprise]

September 11, 2023 - Chilean riot police attack mourners gathered to pay their respects at the tomb of Salvador Allende on the anniversary of the 1973 fascist coup, filling the graveyard with tear gas. [video]

[pedropascalito]

[thepursuitofunderstanding]

The longer I live, the more uninformed I feel. Only the young have an explanation for everything.

Isabel Allende

[allglittersisnotgold]

No hay que olvidar nunca lo que pasó un día como hoy.

[mangopodcast]

Never forget! September 11, when democratically elected Chilean president Salvador Allende was assassinated during a coup by dictator Augusto Pinochet the 11th of September of 1973. this coup was sponsored by the USA.

[drapeau-rouge]

[grandboute]

[aitan]

A più di mezzo secolo dopo il suo assassinio.

[nerdvi]

Honor y gloria🌹

[antroposthuman]

Ante estos hechos, sólo me cabe decirle a los trabajadores: ¡Yo no voy a renunciar! Colocado en un tránsito histórico, pagaré con mi vida la lealtad del pueblo. Y les digo que tengo la certeza de que la semilla que entregáramos a la conciencia digna de miles y miles de chilenos, no podrá ser segada definitivamente.

Tienen la fuerza, podrán avasallarnos, pero no se detienen los procesos sociales ni con el crimen... ni con la fuerza. La historia es nuestra y la hacen los pueblos.

Nunca se me había hecho tan grande la figura de Salvador Allende como lo ha hecho en el marco de la conmemoración de los 50 años del Golpe de Estado en Chile. Siendo izquierdista convencido desde joven, siempre había mantenido cierta distancia. Pero más ha pasado el tiempo, más he aprendido sobre la vida, y más allendista soy. Y no en un sentido de una especie de culto religioso a su figura, sino más bien de una comprensión profunda del significado que Allende y el proyecto de la UP tienen para la historia de Chile, de sus pueblos, y para mi propia vida. Y esto aumenta a medida que en el presente crece el espacio para las memorias negacionistas, las memorias tergiversadas, las antimemorias fundadas en la mentira y en la más vulgar ausencia de empatía de quienes se mofan de las víctimas de la dictadura y de sus luchas por la justicia, de quienes creen que pueden reescribir la historia de este país marcado a fuego por la Dictadura de la que nunca han renegado de todo.

Ante esa clase de odio inhumano, la figura de Allende solo se enaltece. Ya el tiempo la ha enaltecido. Con todas sus imperfecciones, sin desconocer sus errores, propios de un ser humano. Pero hoy es quizás el más sólido referente político y ético, en un mundo donde es cada vez más difícil creer en un futuro, inclusive un presente, en el que haya menos injusticia.

Hoy soy mucho más Allendista que ayer, pero mucho menos que mañana.

Honor y gloria al compañero Salvador Allende, y a todxs lxs caídxs. Van a pervivir en nuestra memoria por siempre, y nunca nos cansaremos de buscar justicia.

[dkingsphoto]

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

Santiago de Chile - 10 de septiembre 2023

[bookswisdom]

“Dios ayuda a los buenos cuando son más que los malos.”

El plan infinito, Isabel Allende