"The Other 9/11": Ariel Dorfman on 50th Anniversary of U.S.-Backed Coup in Chile That Ousted Allende

We look at the 50th anniversary of what is sometimes called the "other 9/11" - the U.S.-backed coup in Chile, when General Augusto Pinochet ousted President Salvador Allende and inaugurated almost two decades of brutal military rule. Allende died in the presidential palace on September 11, 1973, marking the end of Chile's first socialist government. During Pinochet's military dictatorship, more than 3,000 people were disappeared or killed, and some 40,000 more were tortured as political prisoners as Chile remained a close partner to the United States during the Cold War. "We're still living in some sense under the shadow of Pinochet, and of course we're living under the gigantic light … of Salvador Allende," says renowned Chilean writer Ariel Dorfman, who served as a cultural adviser to Allende from 1970 to 1973 before going into exile following the coup. His latest novel, "The Suicide Museum", explores the mystery around Allende's death and whether it was a suicide or murder.
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[@seansmith3058]

After America's 9/11 there was a widespread headline: "Why do they hate us?" Chile's 9/11 and the events like it give you part of the answer.

[@marieromain1076]

Go further down in history. HAITI 🇭🇹 1915...

[@24299]

True.

[@godoffuckyou]

And the fact it was called ground zero. taking over the names of the original ground zeros, Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

[@gmw3083]

Ukraine 2014. DC is already looking for a way out of its latest failed exploit. Blaming its flunkies in the Keeve regime. Russians, ukronotzees, and everyone from everywhere are already inside the belly of the beast. Americas homeland security surveillance state won't know what hit it....

[@EyFmS]

"Hate" is a strong word to use for people in Latin America. If it was hate coming from South America you would have terrorists attacks done by Chileans, Argentinians, Brazilians and more. Ironically one of the largest Chilean diasporas is located in the USA. I think it's more disappointment coming from a country that was supposed to have the same values of emancipation, liberty, justice and despise for imperialism. But i suppose time changes...

[@ADAMSIXTIES]

I attended a 15th anniversary in 1988 at St. Ann's church in The Bronx. Now it's 50 years since the kissinger-nixon-pinochet coup and the former is still here age 100, and not in prison for war crimes.

[@patricktutu5844]

He ( Kissinger ) even won the Nobel Prize for Peace ie. The Nobel Peace Prize.

[@tatianalyulkin410]

So did Barack.

[@boontan1039]

​@@patricktutu58440A1 ²p

[@24299]

Exactly. How many more are they responsible more? Too many to count. Many we know nothing of. It's not right. And their reasons are B.S.

[@jakepistolero]

American-pinochet Why must most americans refuse reponsabiity for their gov??

[@Juan-ud3if]

How Many Children, their Fathers, Siblings and Mothers has Kissinger Slaughtered in his 100 Years. Does he Fear his Grave?

[@cracktower3613]

Oh, you got that right Jaun. 🍀 Thank you, Needed to be said - Again, 🌎 thank you.

[@polarfamily6222]

What your fear are facts. You must really defend terrorists.

[@AliceBowie]

Antisemite

[@JJsabenada]

He should

[@louisgonzalez8846]

I wish kissinger lives a lllloooonnnnnnhhhhh life, and never has a peaceful nite.!!

[@patrickgoldsmith4407]

I was friends with Ralph Dungan's kids- after he left Chile & became Chancelor of Education in NJ. As Ambassador to Chile, he was against the coup d'état. MANY Americans were against the coup. Kissinger has much blood on his hands.

[@chuckdeezy_313]

America has a way of things.... cover up and ignore things hoping people forget and facts get forgotten

[@manfredneilmann4305]

He should be treated as a war criminal despite his age!

[@Mohammadreza-rp8oh]

Kissinger in Vietnam too...

[@Mohammadreza-rp8oh]

And inn iran we had this 3 week before 911 in 1953🇺🇸🇮🇷

[@ronaldturner4849]

Interestingly I'm also remembering how Putin poignantly reminded America, not long ago, about the American army's sadistic massacre, at Wounded Knee, of an entire community of innocent unarmed Native people, women, children, elderly, the disabled, and babies, already captured and helpless in front of the Gatling guns of the US military. Putin properly shamed and disgraced America by pointing out how our country does not come to the negotiating table with clean hands!

[@lynnpallais4132]

Shame on us for so many things, Iran 1950s, Chile 1970s etc. Central American countries OMG

[@andrewlong4894]

shame on us for the negatives...maybe some people should give thanks and praise for the positives which far out numbers the negatives BUT you will not see or hear ANY about them here or while the Left controls the message and narratives

[@tatianalyulkin410]

Ukraine 2014.

[@araa767]

Pakistan 2022

[@Johnconno]

Your governments can't help themselves and you won't stop them or their friends.

[@monicasmith923]

Africa

[@rdsyafriyar]

"Workers of my country, I have faith in Chile and its destiny. Other men will overcome this dark and bitter moment when treason seeks to prevail. Keep in mind that, much sooner than later, great avenues will again be opened, through which will pass the free man, to construct a better society." - Salvador Allende 🇨🇱

[@josedejesustorresmunoz588]

👏👏👏 It sounds like his last famous words minutes before being murdered…👏👏👏👏💪🏼🇨🇱

[@ivanohemartin]

"I will pay with my life the loyalty of the People"- Salvador Allende 🇨🇱

[@tuckerbugeater]

Chileans should respect individual rights. @@ivanohemartin

[@RoguePr1nc355]

"If you believe enough in democracy now, and tomorrow, and the future, then you will be able to defeat the dictators of now, tomorrow and the future" -Ariel Dorfman, beautiful statement!

[@AlternateKek]

denocracy is a false god

[@peterp5889]

Ariel is great man and today is the day devoted to Allende's Spirit and message*

[@d.bcooper2271]

​@@peterp5889COMPARE THESE TWO ARGUMENTS "Islam endorses war (jihad) to impose its law (Sharia) across the world. Therefore Islam approves killing people across the world. Muslims are dangerous - your Muslim neighbor literally wants to knife your little daughter and then blow up the local McDonalds." _"Liberalism endorses war (e.g., colonialism, humanitarian intervention, military occupation) to impose its law (international human rights law) across the world. Therefore liberalism approves killing people across the world. Liberals are dangerous - your liberal neighbor literally wants to knife your little daughter and then blow up the local mosque."_ Why do so many idiots find the first argument logical and compelling, while they find the second argument illogical and absurd? Aren't both arguments illogical and absurd? *Do you want to know why the US is broke and subject to an increasingly totalitarian surveillance regime?* It is because the American people allowed themselves to be duped by absurd arguments into endorsing the "Global War on Terrorism" - spending 8 trillion dollars and agreeing to give the government unlimited surveillance/policing powers in the name of "fighting terrorism/extremism" as characterized by the first argument above..

[@curtrice6060]

I am a freedom fighter. I’ve lost every battle, for the last 80 years.😢 The oligarchs always win 😫🤪😫👿 !

[@peterp5889]

@@curtrice6060 this time they're going to lose I give you a Word of God for it! And it shall come to pass

[@sarahtelles1931]

The far right need to no longer have any say in any country.

[@romanboxing3959]

Andddddd……the far left can’t. Like in Chile 😂

[@sarahtelles1931]

@@romanboxing3959 the far left is way different than the far right, I think you meant centrists

[@ivanohemartin]

"I will pay with my life the loyalty of the People"- Salvador Allende 🇨🇱

[@peterp5889]

Self fulfiling professy

[@notyourcultist]

May Chile never be forgotten just the same as those lost in Manhattan on that Tuesday morning.

[@d.bcooper2271]

Liberal modernists and feminists will feign outrage, but their moral system is what creates this situation. Liberal principles of individual choice, female empowerment, and destruction of patriarchy create a society of people who have no family to take care of them in their old age. The liberal feminist solution to this problem is to create more welfare programs. What this means is that they want the elderly to live alone in what are essentially pods, their only human interaction being with "care" takers to check if they're still alive once a week. Let me put it like this. The only human solution is for the elderly to be surrounded by loving family in their old age. The only way to get that is patriarchy, gender roles, and other limitations on individual freedom. But the liberal mind cannot allow any of that. So the elderly will continue to suffer and liberal feminists and modernists will continue to pretend like they care about humanity.

[@ecoRfan]

Both 9/11’s took place on a Tuesday

[@godoffuckyou]

the equivalent of all lives matter.

[@marieromain1076]

May all terrorist attacks. In all forms, NEVER BE FORGOTTEN.........

[@d.bcooper2271]

@@ecoRfan COMPARE THESE TWO ARGUMENTS "Islam endorses war (jihad) to impose its law (Sharia) across the world. Therefore Islam approves killing people across the world. Muslims are dangerous - your Muslim neighbor literally wants to knife your little daughter and then blow up the local McDonalds." _"Liberalism endorses war (e.g., colonialism, humanitarian intervention, military occupation) to impose its law (international human rights law) across the world. Therefore liberalism approves killing people across the world. Liberals are dangerous - your liberal neighbor literally wants to knife your little daughter and then blow up the local mosque."_ Why do so many idiots find the first argument logical and compelling, while they find the second argument illogical and absurd? Aren't both arguments illogical and absurd? *Do you want to know why the US is broke and subject to an increasingly totalitarian surveillance regime?* It is because the American people allowed themselves to be duped by absurd arguments into endorsing the "Global War on Terrorism" - spending 8 trillion dollars and agreeing to give the government unlimited surveillance/policing powers in the name of "fighting terrorism/extremism" as characterized by the first argument above..

[@Mullins20]

Nations, too, reap what they sow. Justifiably. America will never learn the concept of humility. There's no good ending for such an arrogant nation. It is slowly decaying.

[@LUIS-ox1bv]

Rubbish. Was it arrogant for America to storm the beaches of Normandy, France and turn the tide of the War in Europe? As a nation, America is statistically among the most genorest and beneficent in terms of financial and material aid to other countries and peoples in less fortunate circumstances. Your hatred and bias, has been rewarded with blind ignorance. In such a state, you too will fall.

[@keensab]

Throughout my life, I have been in and out of Chile. I know how the upper, middle class and let's include the arriviste, think. Yes, it is a left versus right struggle but over there, it's mainly a class struggle. The class system is so deeply ingrained that it would be safe to say that there are two Chiles. The aversion to socialism by the well-to-do was ingrained in the social system. Of course, the powers that be, beyond our borders took advantage of this fact and became victorious because of it. I am a centrist (not neutral) therefore it allows me to see things without the blinders of extremism. The elimination of Allende and the progressive implementations of Pinochet's "Chicago Boys" have altered the Chilean identity. Chile has been a commercial hub where the love of money overtakes any social mores that made Chile unique. I grieve for what Chile has become.

[@tatianalyulkin410]

I'll let Uncle Ari talk about Chile. She is the love of my life but I'm Ukrainian- first and foremost. What I wanna say is this. What Uncle Ari calls " the dictators " and what I " lovingly " call the Blake Association doesn't care one bit about how " a- political " you are, how loyal to Soros and Co you are- if it suits their purpose they're gonna turn on you on a dime. I need them to really understand that. In 2013 before the coup I was literally doing " What Is In My Bag " on KZbin. Didn't " save " me or my loved ones.

[@RoxanaAlfaro-mf4xj]

Tienes todo la razón, vivo aquí y observó lo mismo. La identidad nacional y la valoración de la democracia son dos valores medios perdidos, se valora solamente el "éxito" económico, la plata fácil. Sin embargo no está todo perdido ya qué vi mucha gente joven en la conmemoración de esta triste fecha. Muchos no olvidamos y queremos saber más sobre este complot contra la democracia.

[@tuckerbugeater]

Socialism will fix this. LOL

[@marieromain1076]

THANKS. Democracy NOW for continuing to EDUCATE.

[@MuddyPoppins]

More like propagating lies.🤡🌎

[@andrewlong4894]

riiiiight, to CONTINUE to do something you have to be already doing it. 98% of Democracy Now is propaganda, false narratives and lies supporting their obvious agenda which is to manipulate the American people and destroy America from the inside.

[@stephenjohnson5121]

Pro Marxist propaganda, not Education

[@marieromain1076]

@@stephenjohnson5121 DOWN with the malignant tumor, destroying our civilization., IMPERIALISM....

[@tuckerbugeater]

green marxism@@stephenjohnson5121

[@zombiehampster1397]

Ah Kissinger. That monster casts a looooong shadow. We'll be in it for some time. And he lives to a 100+....why? lol no justice and no karma imo.

[@tatianalyulkin410]

He's on Zelensky's " Mirotvorets " kill list.

[@tuckerbugeater]

Kissinger planned this war with Putin. They met over 14 times. @@tatianalyulkin410

[@javiermonforte8264]

Kissinger was working for Nixon, but nobody criticise Nixon. Extrange!

[@Juan-ud3if]

How can Human's Do Such Unspeakable Cruel things to Fellow Human Beings? It's Just not Justifiable. We're All Humans, We Share this Small Beautiful Ball of a Planet. Why do we have to Destroy Everything, All Human Beings, All Life. Why Can't We All Live in Peace and Share the World ?

[@grovepeate3316]

Why don't you ask Planned Parenthood,Joe Stalin,Mao,Hitler,Or any President from LBJ to Biden.

[@YUMLiberalTears]

How can people speak like their sentence is one long book title? Probably a better question for you to be asking.

[@manfredneilmann4305]

​@@grovepeate3316You mention figures like Hitler and Stalin along with Planned Parenthood? Are you kidding?

[@Politics-ww5sc]

@@grovepeate3316 Planned parenthood, the number on killer of black lives. Planned parenthood has more kills than all of them added together.

[@outerlimitz67]

The Human Race Must be Put down

[@ericquiabazza2608]

Funnily enough, as an Uruguayan i hear the suicidal tale more, as is the more inpactfull. Yet never trought it as a lesser act, as i know, if he was arrested he would be pupeter or humiliated as an example. He daying by his own hand, mark to me the steel of his soul and rebel determination

[@RoxanaAlfaro-mf4xj]

Lo hubieran asesinado igual. Hay grabaciones en Pinochet lo platea... " se va en avión y este tiene un accidente..."

[@johnnotrealname8168]

Nope, just suicide.

[@chukwumaoriuwa281]

This is how USA promotes democracy

[@louisgonzalez8846]

For usa democracy = dictatorship. That is their mantra.!!

[@JB-dx7fk]

Being anti-communist? I view that as a win win

[@MrDXRamirez]

“ The Battle of Chile” is a live documentary film shot at the time of the actual coup. Incredible documentary. Costa Gavras’s “Missing” , adapts Ed Horton’s story of his son, Charles Horton, killed in Chile during the coup...a chilling film....must see. Ed Horton, a Manhattan native, was played by Jack Lemmon. I saw these movies in 70s and never forgot them.

[@curtrice6060]

Me too 🧐 but we have been unable to stop 🛑 our leaders from sinning 😈😝😫 !

[@johninman7545]

A culture of Sadism. The Patriarchy is Sadism. A Sadomasochistic Macho Cult Of Death

[@st.michaelofcigarillo2845]

Pinochet was right.

[@st.michaelofcigarillo2845]

Only communists cry about this.

[@imthebadguy3225]

He knew how to handle a liberal.

[@ReelNotFake]

I've been looking for a novel about Allende. Thanks for this!

[@sorinm.popovici7842]

The original 9/11, never to be forgotten.

[@tuckerbugeater]

lol

[@MrTee-de7to]

As an American citizen, I was so ashamed of our country. Our foreign policy at the time forced countries to turn to the Communists because it was our way or no way.

[@MaxwellGriffin001]

You're brainwashed. "our way" or "no way"...no, that's not true, and you know that because of all the countries in the world that do not do it "our way" or "communist way" and are doing fine and have lots of trade with our country and other countries. If you want, I can break down how much of what Ariel Dorfman is wrong, and I don't know if he just chooses to cherry pick to fit his narrative or if he's more active in rejecting verifiable facts which are there.

[@ahoggan230a.k.a.SweetSunset]

Makes you not want to vote democrat doesn't it

[@codycigar6542]

​@@MaxwellGriffin001Didn't Allende's later years as president come with mass hyperinflation and supply shortages?

[@Supertaldo916]

@@codycigar6542yes, once the CIA started to fund the Trucking Strikes and the artificial shortage of goods there was an economic recession.

[@codycigar6542]

@Supertaldo916 Cope. Allende's policies were shit.

[@LUISARAMOSCRICK]

I think of Chile often, and I remember this day every year. Pinochet's coup took place 7 months before we, in Portugal, had the carnation revolution, that freed us from 50 years of fascist dictatorship. So Chile was very much in our minds on April 25, 1974, and it still is.

[@patricktutu5844]

Ironically, Henry Kissinger won the Nobel Peace Prize.

[@labeebulshah8424]

But not Abdul Sattar Edhi

[@javiermonforte8264]

So did Obama!

[@leskuzyk2425]

One of what, 20 or 30 U.S. America backed changes to democratically elected governments around the world?

[@tatianalyulkin410]

Yep. And now we have Ukraine. " Oops, we did it again! "

[@javiermonforte8264]

The soviets were doing the same thing. They got the tanks in Hungry and Checoslovaquia.. The Chileans think they are unique. This has happens all the time, all over the world.

[@andrewsullivan7753]

Wow what a profound interview! What happened to Allende was very sad, I guess the world just wasn't ready for him.

[@juanleahy2202]

I find it hard to accept that Allende killed himself. He had a family & many supporters in Chile. Would it not be very convenient for Pinoche & the military to say that he had killed himself as opposed to being murdered in the coup d’etat! RIP all those who were killed as supporters of Allende.

[@chloeuntrau4588]

@@juanleahy2202 I am sure he was murdered.

[@sammyo2583]

@@chloeuntrau4588 there are some serious questions that needs to be answered. The initial report was that he short himself,but Luis Ravanal has been studying the autopsy for four years, and he believes otherwise. Ravanal says he found details in the autopsy that weren't in line with the official version of Allende's death. The cranium, he says, shows evidence of a first shot with a small gun, like a pistol, and then, a second shot from a larger weapon - like an AK-47 - which could mean that Allende was shot and killed, then shot a second time with his own gun, to make it look like suicide.

[@tuckerbugeater]

keep on obsessing about irrelevant nonsense@@sammyo2583

[@sorinm.popovici7842]

Aka, the US.

[@bituquinnabituquitan5686]

I can blame the US government. I do.

[@HughJass-313]

The *United SNAKES* remains Undefeated 🔥🔥🔥

[@thomasctteo6868]

WE FEEL YOUR PAIN .. MAY THINGS TURN AROUND N GETS BETTER N BETTER FOR CHILE. A NATION SO UNJUSTLY RAVAGED BY UNCONSCIONABLE N PEOPLE OF GREAT MALICE. MAY GOD BLESS ..

[@rickc-137___]

Today is nine eleven And the government still hasnt been Held accountable.

[@sandyhardy3419]

😢😢😢 I am 62 …this is eye opening …thank you for this report…

[@brianreagan2471]

Extraordinary story from Mr. Dorfman. Whoa! Well presented tale of his fulfilling of his legacy. I'm so glad DN is there to give these stories their due when all the other news sources can't be bothered. Love you guys. 😊

[@HeiligBauernhof]

I did not know this...Thank you for making this public...

[@dstuart5612]

Thank you. Keep getting truth out. Love from Scotland.

[@dmars7264]

Kissinger is so evil.

[@cob4467]

Terrible day for the USA . R.I.P

[@N3oNexus_FKA_J4VASCR1PT]

EVEN more terrible for Chile, the twin towers was only 1 day and 15 years of grief before people joked about it, Chile almost 30 years yet still grieving

[@RoxanaAlfaro-mf4xj]

Gracias, Ariel, desde Chile.

[@liaotang1011]

Thank you so much for teaching us about the other 9/11 ❤

[@ChrisRD526]

The fact that Henry Kissinger is still alive at age 100 is really appalling.

[@tuckerbugeater]

He saved the human race.

[@sobeitsky5091]

lmao@@tuckerbugeater

[@heinrichvon]

17:18 - I have to say that I think the obsession with whether Allende committed suicide or was murdered by the attackers of La Moneda is *bizarre*. Why is it dishonorable if Allende killed himself rather than be taken alive (as I believe he did)? Pinochet forces, before completing the coup, allegedly offered Allende safe passage to Cuba and he refused. One might argue (though I wouldn't) that exile under those circumstances would have been cowardly. But how can his determination to remain in the Palace until the very end be cowardly? It seems like a macho or even a Catholic thing to hold him in contempt for reacting to a hopeless situation by taking his own life. In any case, the important thing is the way Allende lived, not the circumstances of his death. For me, Allende was a hero, and whether his enemies killed him or whether he did the job himself is totally irrelevant.

[@mauricioochoa4179]

Allende’s suicide was not cowardly. As he said before his death, he was not going to surrender. He chose death over fleeing the country or turning himself in to Pinochet’s forces.

[@araa767]

Nothing has changed actually, US is playing the same game elsewhere now, presently one of many US backed coup is ongoing in Pakistan, where a democratically elected prime minister was ousted by US backed military establishment, a renowned journalist was compelled to leave his country later assassinated in Kenya, another journalist is still missing probably kidnapped by pakistani intelligence agency, many journalist fled the country and taking asylum in West, more than 10s of thousands political prisoners in jails from months yet to be convicted, the only majority political party leadership is either forced in hiding in jail or disappeared, when all this is happening in one country the West and so called civilised human rights advocate countries are 🙈🙉🙊.

[@tatianalyulkin410]

Once again you're " conveniently " forgetting Ukraine.

[@araa767]

@tatianalyulkin410 it's a tragedy of a nation when US topples a well functioning government and instate a weak, dependent, illegitimate ruler, they actual make the mockery of a nation that people don't matter, humans have no rights as long as a puppet is serving their interests he can do whatever he pleases, nowadays a comedian is playing role of a macho in Ukraine, what could be more ironic, they control the voice they control the views, we can just sit and watch whatever is shown to us.

[@javiermonforte8264]

This is been going on for thousand years, all over the world. It is nothing new.

[@Retroicon13]

This is what the US does. They have army bases all around the world yet they are so worried about china

[@RebeccaTurner-ny1xx]

"Britain’s collaboration with the Chilean dictatorship continued in full knowledge of the atrocities being carried out by Pinochet’s torturers and executioners. The UK’s ambassador to Chile Reginald Secondé reported how “The extent of the bloodshed has shocked people,” but commented coldly of the repression, “the lack of political activity is, for the time being, no loss”." (WSWS)

[@MookieDookie9000]

Both events involved our government

[@Kristina_617]

💯

[@HughJass-313]

the *United SNAKES* is a busy bee 😜😜

[@carlhohn4802]

To understand America is to understand this coup. America feels more and more foreign to me where everyone is out for themselfs and material gain is all that is offered. It is as if it is a lost soul.

[@MayaX07]

This has always been America. Since it's founding.

[@greenthumb8266]

I was 8 minutes in to your Top US& World News September 11 2023 when the video was abruptly removed , just now.

[@jzoobs]

They took it down to issue a correction

[@greenthumb8266]

@@jzoobs thank you

[@Mohammadreza-rp8oh]

Both had same source: 911 newyork and 911 chile 🌐

[@jodywho6696]

Thank You Democracy Now. It's hard to see this. Can't imagine how hard it is to report it. ✨🇺🇸✨

[@andrewlong4894]

It is not hard for them whatsoever

[@JB-dx7fk]

It's one sided. It's funny.

[@Dani68ABminus]

Wonderful guest, thank you!

[@siamcharm7904]

my friend and classmate in hs and college charles horman was murdered by the cia during the overthrow.

[@tatianalyulkin410]

My sincerest condolences. A dear friend of my godmother's, Jack Lemmon, played his father in the movie. And now we have another American- Gonzalo Lira in Ukraine- whose life is in danger for the same reason but Uncle Ari prefers to pretend that Gonzalo doesn't exist. Oh, well... Sooner or later everyone betrays everyone. And Dorfman was my hero. He and Michelle Bachelett. Guess not anymore.

[@siamcharm7904]

@@tatianalyulkin410 we were real competitors at exeter and both played cello. praying for gonzalo. bachlelett was chased out of un for not supporting the uygher hoax.

[@javiermonforte8264]

The revolutions are not a joke. In France, during the French revolution, even the líder Roberspierre died in the guillotine at the end.

[@Africano-Oaxaqueno-Bandera]

Chilean 9/11/1973 is not the other 9/11 it the original 9/11

[@efrainlazos3060]

Dorfman is a paradigm of lucidity in dark times

[@tatianalyulkin410]

Not to me. He's in bed with the Ukrainian Nazis.

[@romanboxing3959]

More like an evil commie thing. Communism is a dark abyss

[@eliezerbenabraham6117]

.....lucidity..?........he is lunatic,a leftist...... ask his opinion about Cuba... Venezuela... Nicaragua...China &....Tibet... actually Hong Kong..... TAIWAN.....

[@labspeciman7402]

So you tone down the American 9/11 by bringing up someting unrelated? This is very tacky. Maybe you should interrupt to talk about the slaughter of Native Americans. Maybe slavery. Anything to lessen the importance of the attacks on the trade centers. Maybe you could have done the stories an hour apart.

[@Dylanesque]

September 11, 1973. The death of democracy.

[@JB-dx7fk]

Communism* I fixed it for you. Despite that... The beginning of a interesting regime.

[@General_Proton]

A moment of silence for the U.S. Constitution slayed by the PATRIOT ACT in 2003 and buried by the WHO in 2020.

[@Guitarman7133]

YUP, AND MORE THAN THAT. TSA, DOT, HLS, ETC

[@jawless7616]

Why did you post world news headlines but then quickly remove it after 20 minutes?

[@Dorothy47]

Thatcher made remarks about the Queen dancing with a Black PM and was later voted out of office. Thatcher was a racist, she had been head of UK's Education system and she was known as " Margaret Thatcher the milk Snatcher " by British school children when she removed the half pint of milk they got with their school lunch. This inspired President Reagan to economize and take away a vegetable in the American school lunch program.He said ketchup was a vegtable so they didn't need another vegetable. Actually, tomato is designated as a fruit ! Reagan also sent Tommy Sands to Thatcher and he went in a hunger strike and died in prison 61 pounds with his bones protruding out of his skin and had to be raped up.

[@padajsiloinepravdo6299]

I remember thatcher gave Pinochet asylum and saw her on tv saying how great Pinochet was for stopping communism. Rightoid ghouls stick together

[@sobeitsky5091]

us and uk are the devil on earth

[@javiermonforte8264]

What a load of rubbish!

[@williammayhoperights]

no one commits suicide by shooting them selves 67 times in the back of the head![pausing twice to reload]. in Oregon we had a phrase 'murder by suicide' 'you have to serve somebody in the end, you will serve, it will be the truth and there will be hope, or a self serving lie, and damn yourself and humanity, but you will serve' quote, Roberta May Hope Caster, Hope under torture

[@dr.emilschaffhausen4683]

Today we simply say they were Epsteined.

[@BestFitSquareChannel]

Remarkable… thank you… best wishes…

[@rmcf1947]

Viva Allende

[@ashebermulugata9]

American imperialism must be checked severely. Long Live Salvador Allende. Long Live Socialism.

[@tmnt10000]

Then go live in North Korea or Cuba

[@jo-annerichardson34]

@@tmnt10000 that's not socialism in those countries. Why are Americans so ignorant about what Communism, socialism, so called democracy in the US which it really isn't, and fascism, which is what the GOP is all about. Educate yourself.

[@kennethmorrison7689]

Creepy Miton Friedman went in person to Chile to oversee the coup.

[@tatianalyulkin410]

So? We had Nudelman and Piett. Grow up already my beloved Chile.

[@MortonT1958]

The interference in Chile was clearly a mistake on multiple levels. However, the magnitude of damage was far less than that caused by the NATO-led (US financed) intervention in Libya in 2011. Twelve years later Libya remains a failed state by any measure. Chile has an ex-pat community that keeps the Allende coup out in the global public’s eye, but in terms of scale and fatalities it is among the least costly compared to interventions in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Haiti, etc.

[@blackeyedsusan727]

The "interference" in Chile cost millions of lives, directly and indirectly over decades to the present day. It forever changed Chile's destiny, and also further destabilised the entire LatAm region. The U.S. coup against this democratically-elected, pacifist president waa not the first of the U.S.' global atrocities, but rather a continuatuon of the horrors it had visited on LatAm alone (!) since the Monroe Doctrine. In sum, it's not a Victimhood Olympics. Regardless, every instance of U.S. greed, mayhem, and murder that has plagued those countries that have something of interest to the U.S. power base has been tragic and has lasting consequences for all of us.

[@claythomas7982]

This was the CIA action.

[@tatianalyulkin410]

Yep.

[@javiermonforte8264]

The KGB started, the CIA finish it. It was called the Cold War.

[@ronnieriveros6067]

TThe homer with the heart of gold. How abt talking what they did and what they r doing now. Hang the constitution so they can stay in power. This guy has no right to talk abt democracy. He is happy he is alive. Treator

[@betsydonato6817]

In memory of the 1973 Modoc protest and Tar Baby Act Hindsight 20 // 20 of a famous quote: Captain Jack 1837 - 73 Modoc War Chief I am but one man. I am the voice of my people. Whatever their hearts are, that I talk. I want no more war. I want to be a man. You deny me the right of a white man. My skin is red; my heart is a white mans heart; but i am a Modoc. I am not afraid to die. I will not fall on the rocks. When I die, my enemies will be under me. Your soldiers began on me when I was asleep on Lost River. They drove us to these rocks, like wounded deer... On himself, in Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee. Courtesy of the Dictionary of Biographical Quotation Alfred A Knopf New York 1978.

[@mikebarbeau8569]

There has to be a special place in hell for Henry the Kiss of Death Enger!!!

[@dalpraned]

Salvador Allende was murdered.

[@tatianalyulkin410]

So? So was Paul Robeson. So was Victor Jara. So was Pablo Neruda. So was MLK. So was Malcolm X. So were my parents and my brother. Your point being?

[@javiermonforte8264]

For millenia kings and presidents have been murder. Who was Allende the mesager? They killed Jesus the mesager too.

[@leonardoribas3387]

Shame on the "democracy's herald" in the world!

[@JB-dx7fk]

And communists are better? Talk about hypocrisy and double standards of people that don't know the history... Or their own.

[@josedejesustorresmunoz588]

We’ll, I salute Dorfman for being critical of certain mistakes by the movement led by the great Salvador Allende, but he fails to be more critical of current US stands and mainstream stance against Latin American. Frankly speaking, I feel he’s become to Americanized and self indulged with his art form… At any rate, I still find him valuable in Academia for his overall body of work…, but somewhere he stopped being what Pablo Neruda aimed all his life: to “be Chilean in perpetuity”🇨🇱💪🏼👍

[@tatianalyulkin410]

I know. He's silent on Ukraine. So is Michelle Bachelett. Oh, well...

[@GeorgeJohnManouras]

Proud American history 😢

[@bonitaroache73]

The real question to ask after 2001; What's the proper Role of Government in our Lives after the fact?!

[@mikefobear589]

Kissenger continues to be an American media star. Read about American Hisrory at the public library and it's a totally differant country. History class in Public and Catholic schools are extremely censored. America holds the worlds record for supporting / installing dictators...Not a tiny issue in American Tv industry.

[@suckmemore]

Kissenger just a symptom!

[@JillofAllTrades2]

Nice piece. Interesting about Dorfman.

[@martinsifuentes6585]

Pinochet was the Zelensky of that time. Right?

[@tatianalyulkin410]

Yes. Of course our Uncle Ari doesn't think so. He's against the evil Putin. 🤣

[@tatianalyulkin410]

Like the first comment I got on Dorfman's board was " You're Putin's troll. " In 2014 the FBI was trying to convince me I was Victor Jara's troll.

[@diegomontoya796]

Venezuela is a socialist democracy. Glad we didn't interfere with that successful revolution.

[@ArleeStarr-l6e]

A bit of irony there. Is there a democracy that was not interfered with, or overthrown by the U.S. because it wanted to keep its natural resources for the benefit of its citizens?

[@louisgonzalez8846]

Believe me diego, THEY TRIED.!!!!!!

[@alejandrogm1588]

​@@louisgonzalez8846🤡

[@javiermonforte8264]

Venezuela is a poor country now, with 5 million refugees. I don't like socialist countries. I don't like poverty.

[@JB-dx7fk]

Funny a lot flocked to Chile. Perhaps Venezuela needs a Pinochet to set things right.

[@gladyg2026]

I always ask myself how could Allende committed suicide when he had a rifle? For me he was killed by the army no body was there to be a witness so they can say whatever they want.

[@24299]

Everyone conveniently forgets all the other coups. 😠

[@The_Slayer_1]

So Americans did this over there and no one held for accountability and now Ukraine

[@tatianalyulkin410]

Well, Kissinger is on the Mirotvorets. I know it's not much.

[@The_Slayer_1]

@@tatianalyulkin410 thank you got an opportunity to look into Kissinger and the Ukraine makeshift army

[@Andtuy]

Si hablas español me gustaría invitarlos a este canal, cuba es humanidad. Nos gustaría poder debatir con ustedes. Estamos en vivo todas las tardes.

[@javiermonforte8264]

Muy bien. Yo les digo a todos estos que dicen ser comunistas, que vayan a Cuba, pero no, prefieren quedarse en países de la OTAN viviendo bajo la bota Yanky. Yo les digo que mienten y que no son nada, solo son unos mentirosos.

[@AsiandOOd]

not defending pinochet's dictatorship, but allende is known to be an authoritorian that disregarded the separations of powers. he was struck down by both the supreme court and the lawmakers in a vote. He also created socialist militias and disarmed right wing organizations, controlled emigration under his disastrous economic management, suppressed legal assembly in the public while allowing leftist groups to assemble with arms, nationalized many industries illegally, and suppressed popular protests against his actions. He is no means someone that should be celebrated. If he stayed in power, venezuela would've become chile's destiny. pinochet should be reprimanded for all of his targeting against political rivals, but he is no where near as terrible as allende was.

[@sobeitsky5091]

stop spreading lies, all you have written has been declassified by the murikan gov

[@AsiandOOd]

@@sobeitsky5091 tell me where im mistaken please

[@sobeitsky5091]

everything @@AsiandOOd

[@javiermonforte8264]

Allende thought, he could turn Chile into another Cuba. He was a fool.

[@YASER2Q]

"You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming" Pablo Neruda

[@ryanyoung9202]

SO DISRESPECTFUL !!!! SHAME ON YOU DEMOCRACY NOW !!!!

[@erickane7093]

Got to change the laws that have been systematically challenged and eroded by corporate lawyers, that where the pass not bars, to hold back the corporate beast.

[@pq7605]

Insightful discussion

[@greendesertgoddess]

It will take "The Shock Doctrine: . . ." by Naomi Klein to tell you all about it!

[@hengee90]

Why was the U.S. and World Headlines news video deleted?

[@dentonfender6492]

Here take some dollar bills, you can wallpaper your shacks with them.

[@HughJass-313]

🤣🤣

[@TheEr910]

Thank you for this history

[@reason4beauty]

You cant let America mourn???? 9/11 never forget

[@johnkelly7217]

Tragedy of American Diplomacy.

[@manfredneilmann4305]

You call that DIPLOMACY?

[@louisgonzalez8846]

John kelly means "a failed diplomacy"

[@javiermonforte8264]

When a country is in the sfere of influence of USA, can not go to the side of the soviets. The same happens with soviet tanks in Hungry and Checoslovaquia. Democracy and freedom does not apply in geopolitics.

[@andyarellanoChannel]

isn't this what we have done in ukraine, syria, yemen, libya, venezuela and on and on

[@lolalashy6522]

Democracy,, tells me what democracy is?

[@kevinarnett8590]

The second 9 11 wtf this sounds crazy

[@domgaar9933]

It happened much earlier than 2001, it is not the second 9/11, hence the title “the other 9/11”

[@javiermonforte8264]

Their have been coup de etat always all over the world. The soviets with the tanks in Hungry and Checoslovaquia. Ask the African nations as well, about coups.

[@oscarogada9410]

The world will not forget what a shame in Guatemala Chile and Congo

[@tylerbarbaree7007]

Yeah, anti-war until you're not.

[@1968dogg]

"Democracy?" vs a Republic. Ask Ancient Rome...................

[@aanchaallllllll]

0:22: 🌎 Today marks the 50th anniversary of the US-backed coup in Chile that ousted President Salvador Allende and led to the brutal Pinochet dictatorship. 4:00: 📚 The speaker recalls how they narrowly avoided being at La Moneda during the coup in 1973. 7:40: 🇨🇱 The speaker discusses the ongoing struggle in Chile to remember the coup and the legacy of Pinochet, and the refusal of right-wing parties to sign a declaration condemning the coup. 11:23: 🌎 The speaker discusses the importance of Allende's example and the threat it posed to US interests in Latin America during the Cold War. 14:20: 🌎 The impact of the Pinochet years in Chile spread to other countries in Latin America, leading to military and extreme right-wing governments seizing power. 18:10: 📚 The author created a character based on himself to explore the story of Chile without the limitations of history. 21:56: 📚 The video discusses the enigma and suspense surrounding the characters in the novel, with a focus on the journey of two men and the empowerment of women. Recap by Tammy AI

[@casiandsouza7031]

Coup is not the problem anymore than a weapon. They are means to an end. The problem is the motives for the end. I can't think of any American motives other than sheer greed.

[@soyroberto2527]

Let's call it the original September 11

[@cesarnacho7630]

Excelent info thanks guys for your hard work...we forgive but we don't forget..what the policies of the white house has done. To Mexico Centro America south America..... Jacobo Arves in Guatemala...

[@MarthaDominguez-i1p]

Is the first time I hear this version of the suicide Allende said- I am not moving from my position they will have to kill me! the suicide version as usual

[@lamars2486]

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