Never Forget September 11.
September 11, 1973.
How General Pinochet executed his coup d’état on the infamous date.
- Pinochet had the backing of the US along with the CIA, which dealt with
the coup-plotters, false propagandists and assassins. - Before the coup was executed, for years the Chilean Military along with the CIA identified Chilean citizens that would have to be executed, detained, interrogated and tortured in order to have a successful takeover.
- President Allende Salvador was assassinated on September 11, 1973.
- Rene Scheider, Chile’s Top & most loyal General was assassinated in 1970.
- Within days after launching the coup, 13,000 Chilean citizens were arrested by the Military (The very people they swore to defend).
- Many were tortured to turn in anyone (family members, close friends, people they’d suspect) that would be against a military led coup d’etat.
- They were held captive at the National Stadium of Chile.
- Over 40,000 people spent time in the Stadium during the junta regime.
- An article in Harvard
Review of Latin America reported that “there were over eighty detention
centers in Santiago alone”
- Mass executions were carried out by a group called the Caravan of Death.
- 3,000 Chilean Citizens were murdered during his dictatorship.
- 600 Chileans during that time frame are still unaccounted for.
- 120 Chilean citizens were also thrown out of Army Helicopters into the Pacific Ocean, Lakes and Rivers.
- On September 13th, 1973 Congress was dissolved and specific political parties were outlawed.
Why did the coup get support from the USA?
- The US feared “an irreversible Marxist regime in Chile” and exerted
diplomatic, economic, and covert pressure upon Chile’s elected socialist
government.
Inflation skyrocketed 375% in just one year after the coup, the poor became poorer, the global elite benefited and the citizens of Chile endured a dictator whose government murdered and tortured thousands of their own people during a repressive 17-year rule.
I’ll leave you with a grave warning. History does repeat itself.
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Thank you for reading and reblog if you were enlightened.
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Sources are provided above and below.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/07/chile-coup-pinochet-allende
http://www.inquisitr.com/1116514/caravan-of-death-chilean-death-squads-arrested-for-murders/
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/jan/09/chile.pinochet
http://www.pri.org/stories/2013-09-11/soccer-match-disgraced-chile
https://www.cia.gov/library/reports/general-reports-1/chile/#14
https://www.cia.gov/library/reports/general-reports-1/chile/
http://abcnews.go.com/International/story?id=82588
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/10/AR2006121000302.html