Chileans lie in street in memory of Pinochet-era missing
Chileans lie in street in memory of Pinochet-era missing
AFP September 11, 2013, 2:24 am
SANTIAGO (AFP) - A thousand people lay on the ground Tuesday in Chile's capital in memory of those still missing from the dictatorship of Gen. Augusto Pinochet.
Wednesday is the anniversary of the coup that brought Pinochet to power, on September 11, 1973. Nearly 1,200 remain missing from his war on anything that smacked of leftist dissent against his US-backed military government.
The demonstrators lay on the ground face-up for 11 minutes, starting near the presidential palace in a line stretching for several blocks.
On the day of the coup, the palace was bombed by planes taking part in the putsch that ousted president Salvador Allende, who committed suicide rather than be captured.
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Sep 10, 3:04 AM EDT
Former AP editor recalls covering 1973 Chile coup
By SERGIO CARRASCO
Associated Press
SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) -- For days, rumors had spread that a coup was imminent. The date chosen by the military and their supporters was the 11th of September.
That Tuesday in 1973, I arrived very early to The Associated Press bureau, not knowing that a military state of siege would keep me from returning home for four days.
Salvador Allende also rushed to arrive early at the government palace, La Moneda. I watched the presidential caravan pass below our office window, and spotted the car that carried Chile's first Marxist president.
This was the time of radio, and channels crackled with announcements. While the coup was led by army Gen. Augusto Pinochet, official word came from Adm. Jose Toribio Merino, who announced at 8:30 a.m. that the navy had risen up against the government. Then someone read a proclamation that it was led by the commanders in chief of the four armed forces - the army, navy, air force and the military police, or "caribineros."
"In the face of a grievous economic, social and moral crisis," the proclamation said, the armed forces "are united to initiate the historic and responsible mission of liberating the people from the Marxist yoke."
"The president should proceed to immediately surrender to the armed forces and military police of Chile," the announcer said dramatically.
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Destruction of La Moneda, the Presidential Palace
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‘Make The Economy Scream’: On Economic Terrorism
From a coup in 1973 to the crash in 2008, disaster capitalists use violence and intimidation to achieve their radical goals. And yes, it counts as terrorism.
By Edward Rhymes | June 7, 2013
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Pinochet sheds green, then blood
In the documentary film based on Klein’s bestseller, we learn the story of Chile and the violent overthrow of democratically-elected President Salvador Allende. Before one shot was fired — before one drop of blood was shed — there was war taking place in Chile, but it was a war between economic ideologies.
After Allende, a democratic socialist, was elected, the Nixon administration began a plot to undermine and destroy his presidency. The means by which this would be accomplished would be a full frontal assault on the conservatives’ monster-under-the-bed of socialism – Nixon famously said, “Make the economy scream.”
Pinochet’s human rights abuses, his herding of people into stadiums, the summary executions and the torture — all are well documented. What we know little about, however, is the economic agenda that was the gateway to the Chilean dictator’s acquisition of power.
While the CIA was training soldiers of various South American totalitarian regimes in the ways of torture through the School of the Americas, Milton Friedman, right-wing godfather of American uber-capitalism, was educating economists from the same countries in the not-so-sweet art of radical free-market theory.
From his perch as the head of the University of Chicago’s School of Economics, Friedman influenced a group called the “Chicago Boys,” Chilean economists who had been brought to the University of Chicago to study – on full scholarship from the U.S. government – as part of a deliberate strategy to try to move Latin America to the right, after a wave of popular elections had moved the region to the left.
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