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lagatta
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posted 01 September 2003 09:50 PM      Profile for lagatta     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
A special report in The Guardian on Chile 30 years after the coup, on that other 11th of September, back in 1973. There is a beautiful photo of female relatives and/or friends of the disappeared - most of them too young to be Madres as in Argentina. http://www.guardian.co.uk/chile/0,13755,1002974,00.html

Don't miss the article about the "ghosts" of Chile and Argentina as their comrades reach middle age.

For Spanish-speaking babblers, there is a poignant article on the left site www.rebelion.org by Uruguayan author and activist Eduardo Galeano, El hombre que no está solo y espera, about fellow writer Juan Gelman's search for his disappeared son and daughter-in-law and abducted grandchild. Galeano reminds us that impunity continues unchallenged in Uruguay, where the repression of the Dirty War was as cruel as in the larger Southern Cone countries.


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lagatta
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posted 11 September 2003 04:18 AM      Profile for lagatta     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
An article about both 9/11s, in Santiago and New York, and the ties between them. I have some quibbles with this article (and certainly many babblers would dispute Roger Burbach's assertation that Allende was "the first freely elected socialist president in the world") but it is thought-provoking.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/print/0,3858,4751058-103677,00.html

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Briguy
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posted 11 September 2003 10:50 AM      Profile for Briguy     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Testimonials from Pinochet's victims, 30 years later

Some of these recounts are hard to read, but vital. We must never forget what happened in Chile.


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DrConway
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posted 11 September 2003 12:25 PM      Profile for DrConway     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
I have also begun to develop an interest in Chile's "September 11th", and will be reading the links. I've also been trying to find out if there are any events in Vancouver and will be back here to report on them if I do go.

The interesting thing is how one country's September 11th will be immortalized in the history books and another's has nearly faded into the dark reaches of peoples' memories.

This is wrong.


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jeff house
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posted 11 September 2003 05:03 PM      Profile for jeff house     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
The most important fact to remember about Pinochet's coup in Chile is this: the Unidad Popular government gained a higher percentage of the vote after three years of Allende's government than when it actually got elected.

So all the techniques of destabilization did not cause the public to abandon the government.

This should be born in mind because many of the apologists for the coup claim that intolerable disorder had made the coup necessary.


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WingNut
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posted 13 September 2003 01:39 AM      Profile for WingNut   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
quote:
Anywhere the left is willing to be open, innovative, nondogmatic and imaginative, both realistic and utopian, where it can reject Tony Blair's New Labour alliance with Dubya's neocons as firmly and unflinchingly as it denounces the wholesale jailing of dissidents and summary executions by an ossified and dictatorial Cuban state, the figure of Salvador Allende and his self-sacrifice for the principles of social justice and democracy loom ever larger, more inspiring and more worthy of reverence and respect.

A great article.

http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20030929&c=1&s=cooper


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