9/11
Today is the sixth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center which took 3,000 American lives.
Today is also the 34th anniversary of September 11, 1973. On that day an American sponsored coup deposed Chile's elected President, Salvador Allende. Worried that socialism was spreading in Latin America, the US sponsored a military coup led by General August Pinochet. Allende took his own life and Pinochet went on to lead Chile through a period of brutal dictatorship in which tens of thousands of Chileans were killed by the military and many more imprisoned. Mass graves are still being uncovered. Chileans refer to Pinochet's rule, quietly backed by the US, as the "Lost Generation."
I wonder if we can really understand 9/11/01 without understanding 9/11/73
Today is also the 34th anniversary of September 11, 1973. On that day an American sponsored coup deposed Chile's elected President, Salvador Allende. Worried that socialism was spreading in Latin America, the US sponsored a military coup led by General August Pinochet. Allende took his own life and Pinochet went on to lead Chile through a period of brutal dictatorship in which tens of thousands of Chileans were killed by the military and many more imprisoned. Mass graves are still being uncovered. Chileans refer to Pinochet's rule, quietly backed by the US, as the "Lost Generation."
I wonder if we can really understand 9/11/01 without understanding 9/11/73
posted by Jack Reed at 12:26 PM
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