#chilean coup d'état

[carolinareyestorres]

Pasan los años, los lustros, las décadas, la cincuentena y frente a la felonía de la corruptela de jueces, políticos, abogados y empresarios la figura de Allende solo se agiganta. Lo investigaron cinco años después de muerto, nada encontraron porque su conducta fue ejemplarmente proba. Los que hace cincuenta años en sus partidos políticos abalaron la persecución, tortura y muerte de sus opositores hoy abalaban una red de corrupción infinita, sin división de poderes y con un solo objetivo; mantener el poder y la riqueza en las 3 o 4 familias que manejan este fundo llamado Chile.

[bobmorane]

A Nᴇᴄᴇssᴀʀʏ Eᴠɪʟ

[mimosita]

To the cry "¡Nunca más!" (never again), thousands of Chilean women surround the Moneda Palace to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the violent coup d'état of September 11, 1973, in Chile. A cry for all Latin America: Never again!

[scouse1g]

Never forget the 1973 Chilean coup d'état.

[supersoupslut69420]

😍❤😍❤😍❤😍❤😍

Happy 51st anniversery to the American backed 1973 Chilean coup d'état

(look it up if you dont know)

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[leftistfeminista]

A nondescript house on Iran Street in a residential neighborhood in Santiago once served as a base of operations for Chile’s National Intelligence Directorate, which systematically used political sexual torture against young women militants. Informally the house is known as “Venda sexy,” which means sexy blindfold, or “discotheque,” because of the loud music played all day to mask the sounds of torture.

Officials operated the house as a clandestine extermination and torture center between 1974 and 1977. Most of the women tortured inside were members of the Revolutionary Left Movement (MIR), a radical-left organization that promoted armed struggle. It was the most heavily persecuted political organization during the first period of the civilian-military dictatorship. The government often killed or disappeared detainees after torturing them.

Authorities kept detainees blindfolded in the bedrooms at all times. They were taken out only to use the bathroom and for torture sessions, which consisted of beatings, mock executions, drowning, and the application of electroshock. All of this took place during office hours. After office hours, sexual torture was common.

Women survivors, ongoing resistance

Over the past 10 years, the Collective of Women Survivors in Resistance Forever (MSSR, in its Spanish acronym) has played a leading role in making sexual political violence visible. The collective of elderly women survivors of clandestine torture centers has worked to cultivate a living memory for the present and the future. They have asserted the idea of political sexual violence in a range of spheres: in the street, in public debate and also in the courts. The state completely omitted this concept in its investigations of the systematic violation of human rights that occurred during the civilian-military dictatorship. 

“Political sexual violence is what happens when cops grope students,” explains Beatríz Bataszew, who is now seventy and who was once was a MIR militant and survived political sexual torture in the Venda Sexy. “All kinds of stuff happens in police stations.” Bataszew highlights the long filaments of horror that run from the dictatorship to the present. 

The MSSR comrades succeeded in having the Venda Sexy declared a historical monument in 2016. The process that the clandestine torture center has undergone has been complex. 

Bataszew recognizes that the recovery of the Venda Sexy was something that survivors wanted, but she insists that this should happen on their terms and not those of the state or whoever is in government.

The recovery of memory 

The MSSR comrades initially sought to expropriate the property so that a social and human rights organization could own and operate it as a memorial. But the house was privately owned and its owners wanted the state to pay an exorbitant sum to purchase of the former torture center. 

After reflecting on this, they decided against expropriation, since they did not want to enrich the property owners. The family living in the Venda Sexy had ties to Chilean police and harassed those who came to pay their respects to victims outside the house. They destroyed memorials, dumped water on people and called the police when they felt that too many people had gathered.

The compañeras opted to do commemorative work outside of the house. They sought to occupy public space and not enclose memory behind closed walls. They set up a memorial in a nearby plaza, which is periodically vandalized and then rebuilt. Well attended public activities have occurred there over the last five years. While the MSSR focussed on social activities, Gabriel Boric’s government pushed ahead with the expropriation of the house. 

On September 1, 2023, ten days before the 50th anniversary of the coup d'état in Chile, the official gazette published a decree expropriating the house. The Metropolitan Housing and Urbanization Service acquired the property. 

Those who lived in the former torture center in the post-dictatorship period had gutted and renovated the building. The Ministry of National Assets holds it today and it remains as they had left it. The MSSR highlighted the building’s significant architectural alterations early on. This was another reason why they decided not to insist on expropriation. 

Bataszew said the MSSR wanted to avoid a media spectacle linked to the expropriation and the construction of the memorial site. She sees the fact that today the site is called “Iran 3037” as an attempt to sanitize memory, which becomes denialism, as it seeks to hide all that the name “Venda sexy” evokes. 

The activist warns that these kinds of spaces can become centers of cultural activity managed by memory “entrepreneurs,” who build careers in human rights in a way that is too cosy with the state. Today, she says, official memorial sites are structured as companies with boards of directors under corporate management. Bataszew sees these practices, which attempt to reconcile and appropriate memory, as a response to capitalist markets under social democratic government.

Healing in the midst of denialism

The state’s denialism and erasure indicates its reluctance to reveal ongoing state violence against feminized bodies. Subversive memory is uncomfortable because it is a militant memory that reveals the continuous filaments of terror that run through to the present. To bury the memory of the dictatorship is to bury the fact that the entire political, social and economic system is an inheritance of the military regime. This is an inheritance built on the bodies of countless comrades.

Bataszew and her MSSR comrades are still active doing education in the streets. The state can keep their empty house, in her view. “Let them keep the walls, we have the streets,” Bataszew said with a laugh. “Autonomous feminism is outside and institutionalism is inside.” 

She ended our conversation by reflecting about how the street is the place of popular education and how we heal through the construction of memory. We heal together, we do not need their vulgar reconciliation policies. Our justice comes through building a better future.

[theunitedsoviets]

American War Crimes and Coups

It's no secret that America is an Imperialist Nation but it's sad how often times people tend to look over and forget why immigrants are coming into America in the first place.

After the raping and plundering of their land and goods, people have to always try to make a better living and of course , they come over where they think things are better, in hopes for the supposed American Dream (which was already D.O.A since the U.S government inception i.e Native Americans) little do they know they have entered Hell's Gate dead center right in falling and failing empire.

Here below are a few examples of the War crimes and Coups that America has done in the past year under both Conservative and Liberal Presidents

When someone tells you that America is the greatest nation on earth , you can quickly refute that by sarcastically saying "yeah by exploiting other countries "

From Reddit-U.S. backed coups in Latin America: Costa Rica 1948, Guatemala 1954, Paraguay 1954, Brazil 1964, Peru 1968, Chile 1973, Uruguay 1973, Argentina 1976, El Salvador 1979, Nicaragua 1981, Panama 1989 (invaded), Venezuela: 2002

Also to Note:

The key year associated with American imperialism towards Native Americans is 1830, when the "Indian Removal Act" was passed

In 1898, during the Spanish–American War, Puerto Rico was invaded and subsequently became a possession of the United States

invasion and occupation of Haiti, 1915-34. The United States had interests in Haiti for decades, including the possibility of using it as a naval base. 

invasion and occupation of Dominican Republic, 1916-24

US-financed, CIA-armed coup in Dominican Republic, 1961

US-financed, CIA-armed invasion/attempted coup of Cuba, 1961 - aka Bay of Pigs. The Bay of Pigs Invasion was a failed military operation in Cuba in 1961. The United States government financed and directed the invasion, which was intended to overthrow Fidel Castro's communist government. The invasion took place during the Cold War and had a significant impact on relations between Cuba, the United States, and the Soviet Union.

US invasion and naval blockade of Dominican Republic, 1965

1973 Chilean coup d'état was a military overthrow of the democratic socialist president of Chile Salvador Allende and his Popular Unity coalition government.[10][11] Allende, who has been described as the first Marxist to be democratically elected president in a Latin American liberal democracy,

US invasion and takeover of Grenada, 1983

US led coup of first-ever democratic government in Haiti, 1991

US Ukraine Coup 2014-In early 2014, civil war broke out in the Donbass after a US-backed coup d’état had ousted the Russian-leaning government in Kiev. The coup was clearly orchestrated by Nuland, who was then assistant secretary of state for European affairs

These are the truths that American media rather Liberal or conservative news channels don't speak about because it's a threat to their fake democracy and their imperialist and colonizing ways. There are more I'm sure but just remember anytime your for Socialism you are for the people , American Capitalist ways just don't cut it and last but not least, lets not forget the Native Indigenous people of America , truly known as Amaruca!

This is why in the new U.S.S.A (United Socialist States Of America - United Socialist Soviets Of America or the New Socialist Republic of Amarcua ) we must rid the former Imperialist USA and build for a better tomorrow for all backgrounds, Races, Nationalities, Genders, and in order to do that it must be under a new system and that new system would be Socialism. Socialism is a cooperative system where everyone thrives unlike the competitive dog eat dog nature of Capitalism which implodes on it self by it's very nature! Then many even People of Color still decide to wave the imperialist Red, White and Blue Flag and celebrate 4th of July when they wasn't even free during that time as they were slaves. This is a stupid practice and no person of color should be waving an American Imperialist flag!

People may argue and say silly things like Socialism doesn't work , well if it didn't work so well , then ask yourself why in the hell the U.S keeps trying to stop our movement even to the Communists in America?

[positivelybeastly]

Do you see x-force as a commentary on unchecked power?

"If I possessed truly unchecked power, you'd know."

So, it's meant to be. The ultimate intention of the series is meant to be a commentary/satire on the CIA and its various cruelties inflicted upon the world in the interests in national security. Beast has been forced into the role of Henry Kissinger, who, while never an actual Director of the CIA, certainly had his role to play in the history of the United States and its defence policies over the last 60 years.

"Kissinger is also associated with controversial U.S. policies, including its bombing of Cambodia, involvement in the 1973 Chilean coup d'état, support for Argentina's military junta in its Dirty War, support for Indonesia in its invasion of East Timor, and support for Pakistan during the Bangladesh Liberation War and Bangladesh genocide.

He was accused of war crimes for the civilian death toll of the policies he pursued, his role in facilitating U.S. support for dictatorial regimes, and willful ignorance towards human rights abuses committed by the United States and its allies."

Taken from Kissinger's Wikipedia page.

(Apologies, by the way, that this particular answer will be text heavy, I refuse to cap X-Force because I just. Don't. Want. To read it again.)

The parallels are pretty obvious - Beast's genocide of Terra Verde, his space prison, his wilful manipulation of X-Force to satisfy what he viewed as the interests of Krakoan national security, to the point where he would weaponise Logan just as the Weapon X programme did . . . these are the comic book equivalents of the United States' various criminal acts against a wide variety of smaller, less powerful countries. They are brighter, louder, flashier, more outwardly grotesque, but they fulfil the exact same role.

Now, here's the problem.

And let's try and follow Ben Percy's narrative logic here, yeah?

Beast has always been evil. Beast himself, Logan, and Domino all express this exact sentiment. It was only when he possessed true carte blanche that he revealed this evil, because if he had done so beforehand, then he would have been cast out or killed by his fellow heroic X-Men. That's safe to say, right?

Now.

Hank has, in the past, been given cosmic power by the Black Mirror, and promptly used it to try and find out how to fix the damage that he had done to the space-time continuum by bringing the Original 5 X-Men to the present.

When he realised there was no easy way to fix it, not even with his cosmic power, he ran away SCREAMING that it was all his fault, and when we next see him, he is depressed, he is brought low, his fucking speech bubbles are tiny because he's so shaken and mortified by what he's done.

But let's ignore that. Because Ben Percy did.

When Beast makes his departure from X-Force, Sage takes over, and promises to run X-Force more efficiently, with more oversight, with more transparency. She promises to be what Beast wasn't.

So far, so good, right? That's a pretty clear narrative.

. . . Hey, uhhh, where was X-Force when the Hellfire Gala went down?

Oh, they weren't there?

The intelligence agency, the force designed to combat external threats and shut them down with extreme prejudice, just - straight up completely missed the biggest threat imaginable to their country, and they just. Fucked up, completely?

Hmmm.

They were infiltrated from within, by an observer sent by the Quiet Council, who was meant to provide oversight? An observer that Beast had previously identified as a threat, and didn't want anywhere near a position of power, albeit for xenophobic reasons?

An observer who, when they went into the far off future to navel gaze at Nimrod Beast's evil future, broke the control over him - and didn't tell anyone that he had been being controlled for the past, like, year? Who was acting strangely, and no-one followed up on it?

Hmmm.

Like, here's the thing - I don't think Ben Percy necessarily wants us to think that Beast was a better leader of X-Force than Sage. He's portrayed as a brow beating, emotionally abusive, manipulative, oily voiced, condescending asshole who keeps biting off more than he can chew . . . BUT.

It's only when he's gone that both Krakoa falls, and that X-Force is completely double fucked by a person who wouldn't be there if Beast was still there? Like . . . have I said anything incorrect here?

Ladies, gentlemen, individuals who fall outside or along the gender spectrum in various places . . . this is what's described as bad theming, and inadequate plotting.

By running these two plots in parallel, and having them happen like this, Ben Percy has accidentally implied that the corrupt, evil asshole leader of X-Force was the one actually keeping Krakoa safe, and the good, transparent leader of X-Force managed to fuck things up immediately.

That's not what the story wants you to think! It wants you to view Sage and co. as the heroes of the story, explicitly, they are the good guys. But. Through lack of care, and lack of thought, that's what's been accidentally implied.

Now, maybe that's just me being facetious, and you know what, it probably is. That's a minor quibble, you can't really blame Ben Percy for that, Gerry Duggan and the X-office say that the Hellfire Gala happens this way, and Ben Percy has to say, sure. It's unfortunate timing, but Sage did not cause the Hellfire Gala to happen, that's ridiculous.

However.

I have to remind you all, as I so often do, that the entirety of X-Force knew that Beast had killed Terra Verde, used the bodies of its ambassadors as puppets; had an evil space prison built using siphoned Krakoan funds; had attacked Piotr Rasputin's reputation, publicly humiliated him; they knew that he was not to be trusted, and they knew that he was a bad, bad, bad man.

Yeah? That's established?

. . . Why did they keep working for him?

Why was it that the buck apparently stopped at mind controlling Logan? THAT was the point where you draw the line, huh? The evil Mengele space prison, THAT YOU KNEW ABOUT, that you dragged Beast from in chains, warranted the fucking silent treatment, like you're a bunch of fucking children, but the instant something happens to Logan, suddenly he's got to go?

That's some real moral myopia you guys got going on, there!

That means you were all okay with everything he was doing before! You could have stopped working with X-Force, you could have just killed Beast, over and over and over, you could have protested to the Quiet Council, you could have done anything - but you just kept turning up to work! You kept doing the dirt!

Why?

. . . Oh, sorry, there's, uh, no real answer here. There are no character arcs for people in X-Force. It's just, Beast is evil, Logan is the grizzled hero, and everyone else is here, I guess.

Like, there's some real weak political commentary going on with Logan vs. the Quiet Council, where he's like, BLUUUUH KRAKOA'S A COUNTRY CLUB, BUUUUH I DON'T LIKE HOW YOU DO THINGS, but, like, it's just so without any kind of substance! It's acting like Wolverine wasn't ALSO fine with everything Beast was doing up until it affected him!

You can't have clear cut heroes and villains in a narrative like this. Everyone on X-Force, without exception, is a horrible person willing to do horrible things in the interests of national security, and they have been SHOWN to be FINE with whatever Beast wanted to do, but because they are NOT Beast, they're heroes.

This is what's known as the 'bad cop' narrative. One bad apple spoils the bunch, you know the saying - not all cops are bad, if you could just get rid of the bad ones, it'd be fine!

Except that it's not a case of good cops and bad cops, is it? It's a case of a cop culture that breeds corruptive power. It's a case of good cops being punished for calling out corruption, being put in mental institutions, left to die in combat situations. And it's the same with black ops teams. It's the same with intelligence agencies. There are no heroes on these teams, because it's not POSSIBLE to be a hero on these teams.

But Ben Percy seems to think that there can be. That X-Force would have been fine if Beast wasn't on the team from the start, that black ops teams full of murderers are completely fine so long as they're guided by the right person.

The instant he started prattling on about good and evil in this narrative, if it was ever meant to be a commentary on unchecked power, it lost all of its potency. Power and its relation to Beast becomes almost pointless if he's just evil - he just becomes a villain waiting for his chance, and it makes all the heroes look like morons for continuing to give him power and not take any of it away.

The only way this narrative works is if Beast was a good person to start with, and he had to start making moral compromises, he had to start cutting out his soul to save Krakoa, he had to - except, that's not how Ben Percy believes Beast is. He has told us so, repeatedly, both in and out of narrative.

What's the actual moral of the story in X-Force?

Is it that power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely? Well, Beast was apparently always corrupt, and Sage apparently is a hero despite letting him do whatever the fuck he wanted, sooo. No?

Is it that intelligence agencies are intrinsically cruel and horrible apparatuses that allow states to harm innocents in the interests of national security? Well, this intelligence agency is full of heroes who pretty much never do anything morally bankrupt, who constantly push back against their evil overseer but don't really challenge him, so, I guess intelligence agencies are fine, actually, so long as the people are good.

Is it that nation building is a bloody process that requires moral sacrifice, and that everyone involved in the founding of a nation has some degree of blood on their hands? Maybe? Iunno.

How often do the Quiet Council actually appear in X-Force and Wolverine? Maybe two, three times? Are they to blame for what happens? I guess, since they give Beast carte blanche, but X-Force sure don't do a lot to push back against that, do they? For a character that allegedly is protecting Beast from these consequences, we never see Xavier interact with Beast, do we?

X-Force is a political commentary with messy, lazy politics, that believes that black ops teams are fine so long as the people running them are good people.

X-Force is a story of good and evil with very little actual moral nuance, and not much to actually, truly say about Krakoa, other than, it can be bad sometimes and Logan doesn't like it.

X-Force is an intelligence agency without any actual intelligence. Every character in it is unobservant, wilfully ignorant, lazy, short-sighted, easily manipulated despite being outwardly cynical, and have not once, in nearly 50 issues, executed a plan that I looked at and thought, you know what, I would never have thought of that, that was really smart.

X-Force is a group of morons who can't kill a fat blue man who bounces a lot, because he's just too smart and capable for them, even though he's also evil and arrogant and stupid and constantly overplays his hand.

X-Force is so stupid that they brought back a clone of their previous Director to fight the current version of him, left said clone in a room that he had the access codes to open with a guard that was talked to sleep with embarrassing ease, and then left their control centre unguarded, despite it having been broken into that very same day by this very same man, so that he could look through their files and leave.

X-Force is fucking dumb.

If it's a commentary on anything, it's that Ben Percy can't write smart narratives to save his goddamn fucking life.

He should stick to short Wolverine stories and body horror, because politics, spy thrillers, satisfying character narratives, theming?

These fucking escape him.

I have no professional respect for the man.

He's probably a nice enough guy if you talk to him in real life.

But, you wanna know a secret? I've never paid a penny for a single issue of X-Force, it's all pirated. All these caps I used? Pirate sources.

I'd walk up to his face and tell him so.

Because I find his work to be a complete waste of time, energy, good art, paper, downloaded megabits, and space. It's a complete wash.

Unless Hank gay kisses Wonder Man in the next two issues.

That'd make it worthwhile, I s'pose.

[fangirling-throughlife]

If anyone was wondering how my stupid brain works, here's what happened in the span of 20 minutes:

1. They mention on the news that the Chilean coup d'état happened 50 years ago this Monday. I remember that this was a big topic in La Casa de los Espíritus (the House of the Spirits) by Isabel Allende, and that I'm actually curious what actually happened (our modern history teacher left for 2 months, so we didn't cover anything beyond 1945). I open the Wikipedia page

2. Open Salvador Allende's Wikipedia page because I'm reminded he was actually related to Isabel Allende.

3. Remember that Pedro Pascal is also related to Salvador Allende, so I start looking through his family members to figure out through which family member they're related

4. Find the connection, end up clicking through to Pedro Pascal's Wikipedia page to read about his family's exile

5. Find out that he lived in Orange County, click on the link

6. Now I'm thinking about the West Wing

[osrphotography]

"Hijo de la rebeldía

Lo siguen veinte más veinte

Porque regala su vida

Ellos le quieren dar muerte" - Víctor Jara "El Aparecido"

On the 11th of September 1973, a nation once considered a stalwart of democracy in Latin America was subject to a coup d'état.

The Chilean Armed Forces, discontent with the newly elected Unidad Popular (Popular Unity Party), and Preisdent Allende overthrew the government on the morning of the 11th.

Using recently purchased Hawker Hunters from Thatcher's Britain, the FACh bombed friendly radio stations and the Palacio La Mondea. The coup was an overwhelming success, and the decades that followed under Augusto Pincohet were marked by massive human rights abuses. Indeed the, folk-artist who I quoted at the beginning of this post, Víctor Jara, was arrested and subsequently murdered by the Pinochet régime.

It is estimated that 40,000 people were desaparecido by the Junta. Their "crimes" were sympathies towards the previous government, real or imagined.

Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger were both deeply involved in the coup. Multiple files have recently been declassified, which shows the US was responsible for ushering in 2 decades of repression. Yet, to date, nothing has been done to persecute any Americans involved. In spite of the fact that two american citizens were murdered by the Junta.

Despite the attempts at an urban guerrilla (à la Rote Armee Fraktion) by the FPMR and the MIR, the Junta proved to be a formidable force that could hold its own against dissidents.

So today, as we mark 50 years since the golpe de estado, we say, "¡Ni perdón, Ni olvido! We can not forgive, and we can not forget. And we must never forget who it was pulling the strings and assisting financially, the United States of America. Chile, as a country, may never truly recover from what happened during those years. Those of us living overseas certainly can't.

¡Viva Chile! ¡Viva el pueblo! ¡Vivan los trabajadores! - Salvador Allende, Sept. 11, 1973.

[cat-mermaid]

how dare you make me go and learn history so I can get the joke

[leftistfeminista]

In Chile, why did the implementation of neoliberalism facilitate VPS practices?

“ The implementation of neoliberalism could not have been carried out without a shock, as Naomi Klein suggests, which would dismantle relational ecosystems anchored in popular identity associated with the collective and a society in which certain rights were assumed as one's own and won. A society that struggled between reform and revolution, and that had communities and collectivities at its center as a way of resolving conflicts. This shock, to which Chilean society is subjected, is state terrorism and the VPS plays a fundamental role in it, the imposition of power and a particular social organization through sexual violence on bodies. To subdue the social body and terrorize it, it was necessary to degrade, use, abuse and violate sexualized and sexualized bodies, a pedagogy of horror, which based on a patriarchal sex-gender system, uses techniques and technologies on bodies to 'return popular sectors and especially women to their historical place. In turn, neoliberalism uses these techniques again when it feels cornered, which also function as adjustment techniques for neoliberalism, ensuring its sustainability.”

In your opinion, what is the influence of patriarchy and market logic on these events?

“ I believe that sexual violence is at the base of the patriarchal organization, let’s say that it is like its philosopher’s stone, the hierarchical binarism and the appropriation of the body of the feminized is its deepest structure. In the logic of the market, there is an author that I like a lot called Roswitha Scholz, she says in one of her texts that the value is the man, she argues that the fundamental contradiction of the socialization of value between matter (content) and form (abstract work) is determined by gender in a specific way. She calls it the commodity-producing patriarchy. From this point of view, masculine rationality and therefore its praxis is in the DNA of the capitalist market. Marx’s classic formula is nothing other than a masculine rational abstraction: competition, exploitation, conquest, destruction, are at the practical and relational base of this formula. Note that when I refer to masculine I am not saying men, but the cultural, symbolic-practical apparatus of the masculine.”

She points out that "the relationship between armed conflicts and sexual violence is long-standing." She mentions, for example, the kidnapping of Shibox by Boho Hoha, a terrorist group in Nigeria, which accounts for hundreds of girls who were raped. Are these situations that we are exposed to that are repeated?

“ Certainly, as long as we do not transform the prevailing sex-gender system and with it the mode of production and reproduction in which they mesh, we will be exposed again and again in history to this type of event.”

How can victims continue their lives after the atrocities they have suffered?

“ I don’t think it’s a question I should answer, but there are key elements that we can contribute as a society, for example, ending so much impunity is essential and finding equivalent forms of reparation, even if only in part, for so much damage. It is also important to re-validate and value, by demystifying political binarisms, the dreams and hopes of the people who gave their lives for a profound social transformation, whose focus was on the well-being of society.”

It has just been 50 years since the coup d'état... is reconciliation possible?

“There is no possibility of reconciliation with the aggressors without reparation that is equivalent to the damage, and for this, truth and justice are essential, as well as the end of denialism. On the other hand, it is essential to move towards more just, equitable and less violent societies, for this, a radical change in our subjectivities is essential, as well as reformulating the productions of competitive, aggressive, violent individualist neoliberal desire.”

After reading Nieves Ayress Moreno's testimony, how can society recover from this barbarity?

“ I think it is essential to revisit our history to understand the mechanisms that move and push the production of individuals willing to carry out and plan such atrocities, to create strategies for transformation. I think that art, music, science with a focus on society and not on the abstract needs of the market. Collective work, whether in the neighborhood, networks of friends, social, with common purposes, is essential to trust in what is mutual and to give us back something of another form of humanity that was taken from us as a society.”

What consequences has it left in Chilean society that have not been overcome?

“ It installed techniques and technologies of repression that are reused from time to time in the adjustments of neoliberalism, we have for example in 2011 and 2019 where these techniques were used as tactics of repression and terror. Again to dismantle the collective by installing fear. With this, impunity stands as the historical spectre, which constantly haunts us. In addition to neoliberalism, which has deeply affected our ways of relating and our subjectivation, decomposing and atomizing us superlatively as individuals in competition, with levels of inequality so brutal that they are the cradle of the explosion of various forms of crime and various forms of violence that have us living in a constant implosion.”

Personally, how did this research impact you?

“ I remember that there were nights when I was writing or reading testimonies and I couldn’t bear the helplessness, and I would stop writing or reading to cry buckets. I think that anger, pain and helplessness are the emotions that accompanied me for a large part of the research, and I also had to put it aside on several occasions, because it was so emotionally exhausting. The exhausting certainty that those who orchestrated this horror and this model have a historical debt with the generations who suffered the barbarity firsthand and with those of us who today suffer the daily attacks of neoliberalism, especially if you are a woman, a dissident, or part of the children or youth who live in this country. And I say exhausting because you only see that the consequences of the model are deepening. This research reaffirmed my political position in society, and my role as a professor and researcher.”

Finally… are we condemned to be Cains to each other, over and over again?

“ Within patriarchal colonial capitalism, yes, we are condemned, and what is happening with the growing drug violence in Latin America shows this. But this system is never total, there are always spaces for fissures, and it is in these fissures and contradictions that we can imagine, project and create other possible worlds, other policies and social relations of production and reproduction.”

[knick-nudiex]

Pornography

Pornography in the Americas consists of pornography made and viewed in North, Central and South American and Caribbean countries and territories. The culture of Latin America and French America has traditionally been strongly influenced by the Roman Catholic Church, which tends to be socially conservative. Pornography is least restricted and essentially legal in those countries where the Catholic church is politically and socially the weakest, such as Brazil, Colombia and Mexico. The viewing of pornography in the region has been popularized by the Internet and DVDs.

Pornography between consenting adults is legal in many American countries including Colombia and Uruguay.

The Bahamian penal code prohibits the production and distribution of obscene publications. Many types of pornography are prohibited in the Bahamas, however law enforcement is relaxed and does not usually enforce the prohibition.[better source needed] Pornography is available on Bahamian cable television and in 2014 ZNS-TV broadcast a report on the establishment of a local pornography industry in the Bahamas.

Brazil

Main article: Pornography in Brazil

In Brazil, pornographic film actors must be 18 or older. Pornography which does not involve bestiality or juvenile pornography is legal when sold in public places. However, magazine and DVD covers that depict genitalia must not be visible from public view, and pornography can only be sold to people 18 or older. There are no laws that forbid fictional child pornograhy.

Canada

Main article: Pornography in Canada

The laws of Canada permit the sale of hardcore pornography to anyone over the age of eighteen. While persons below that age may have pornography in their possession, its sale to them is prohibited.

Most hardcore pornography is sold in adult stores or on adult websites.

Chile

Chile's pornography industry began in the 1950s and grew significantly until the 1973 Chilean coup d'état. Under the subsequent military dictatorship of Chile the industry was suppressed. Following the Chilean transition to democracy and the development of the Internet, the pornography industry in the country has begun to expand again.

Colombia

Colombia has become a big hub for live web cam streams and has seen a rise in camgirls as a result of the increase in access to the internet.

Cuba

Pornography is illegal in Cuba, however the laws were relaxed in the 2010s.

Mexico

Mexico is one of the largest producers of child pornography in the world.

United States

Main article: Pornography in the United States

In the United States, courts have repeatedly confirmed that obscenity is not legal in the United States; it is not entitled to the freedom of the press protection contained in the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. Pornography has become semi-legal, then in practice legal, because it has been "shown" not to be obscene.

The Miller test, developed in the 1973 case Miller v. California, was used for some years to define material as pornographic but not obscene. It has three parts:

Whether "the average person, applying contemporary community standards", would find that the work, taken as a whole, appeals to the prurient interest,

Whether the work depicts or describes, in a patently offensive way, sexual conduct specifically defined by applicable state law,

Whether the work, taken as a whole, lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value.

The work is considered obscene only if all three conditions are satisfied. Local areas are permitted to develop their own laws on the issue, as long as they do not conflict with federal law.

Pornography is a large industry that involves major entertainment companies, which offer pornography films through cable channels and in-room movies in hotels. Pornography distribution changed radically during the 1980s, with VHS and cable television largely displacing X-rated theaters. VHS distribution, in turn, has been replaced by DVD and Internet distribution for niche markets. Pornography generates billions of dollars in sales in the United States alone. An estimated 211 new pornographic films are made every week in the United States.

Venezuela

Despite the fact that in Venezuela pornography can be viewed through cable television systems, the government of that country has been taking anti-pornography stances since 2018. On June 19, it was reported that CANTV, the country's largest Internet provider, blocked access to three popular pornographic websites hosting user-generated content⁠ — namely, XVideos, PornHub and YouPorn. However, these three websites can be viewed through other providers, through IP or DNS changes, or through a VPN. Moreover, there are rumors that webcam sites could be banned in Venezuela.

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September 11, 1973: U.S.-backed military coup in Chile overthrows the elected socialist government of Salvador Allende. 

At least 60,000 people were killed in the ensuing fascist terror under General Augusto Pinochet.

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Death of a Squid Traumatizes Anthony Bourdain: Renzy

Rage, self-disgust, sadness driving him towards a near mental beakdown; quite the range of emotion, an honest look into the proper reaction to seeing something die if this life is all there is.. what is it about this guy? Why does he haunt us? Was it bc he was so raw about things & didn't try to masquerade as s/t he wasn't..

I mean look at some of the things he went on record saying:

"You can always tell when a person has worked in a restaurant. There's an empathy that can only be cultivated by those who've stood between a hungry mouth and a $28 pork chop, a special understanding of the way a bunch of motley misfits can be a family. Service industry work develops the "soft skills" recruiters talk about on LinkedIn—discipline, promptness, the ability to absorb criticism, and most important, how to read people like a book. The work is thankless and fun and messy, and the world would be a kinder place if more people tried it. With all due respect to my former professors, I've long believed I gained more knowledge in kitchens, bars, and dining rooms than any college could even hold." —Anthony Bourdain

Once you’ve been to Cambodia, you’ll never stop wanting to beat Henry Kissinger to death with your bare hands. You will never again be able to open a newspaper and read about that treacherous, prevaricating, murderous scumbag sitting down for a nice chat with Charlie Rose or attending some black-tie affair for a new glossy magazine without choking. Witness what Henry did in Cambodia – the fruits of his genius for statesmanship – and you will never understand why he’s not sitting in the dock at The Hague next to Milošević. —Anthony Bourdain, who is probably smiling down from Heaven on Henry Kissinger’s cold, dead body

Kissinger is also associated with controversial U.S. policies including its bombing of Cambodia, involvement in the 1973 Chilean coup d'état, support for Argentina's military junta in its Dirty War, support for Indonesia in its invasion of East Timor, and support for Pakistan during the Bangladesh Liberation War and Bangladesh genocide. Post-invasion Escalation in Cambodia During the rest of the year, the Freedom Deal area of operations was expanded three times. Transcripts of telephone conversations reveal by December 1970 Nixon’s dissatisfaction with the success of the bombings prompted him to order they be stepped up.“They have got to go in there and I mean really go in,” he told Henry Kissinger. “I want them to hit everything. I want them to use the big planes, the small planes, everything they can that will help out there, and let’s start giving them a little shock.” Kissinger then relayed Nixon’s order, saying, “A massive bombing campaign in Cambodia. Anything that flies on anything that moves.” The President was inspired to reckless escalation by his belief in the “madman theory.” The madman theory is a political theory commonly associated with the foreign policy of U.S. President Richard Nixon and his administration, who tried to make the leaders of hostile Communist Bloc countries think Nixon was irrational and volatile so that they would avoid provoking the U.S. in fear of an unpredictable response. Considered by many American scholars to have been an effective secretary of state, Kissinger was also accused by critics of war crimes for the civilian death toll of the policies he pursued and for his role in facilitating U.S. support for authoritarian regimes.

2025-02-14: Did you know that octopus die when giving birth to 100K babies? | Jordan Peterson

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Ok it's September 12 so now we're posting about the other 11/9.