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, by FIDLER Richard
This year, on September 11, we mark the 50th anniversary of the coup in Chile. The violent military overthrow of the Popular Unity government put an end to a turbulent experiment in the parliamentary road to socialism initiated with the presidential election of Salvador Allende just three (...)
, by EVANS Brad
State-sponsored disappearance plays into the most primal of human fears – to vanish without a trace. The modern era started with Chile’s US-backed coup on September 11 1973
For the few remaining women of Calama in Chile’s Atacama desert, September 11 holds a terrifying meaning. They (...)
, by AMADOR Roberto González, TOUSSAINT Éric
The coup against the government of Chile’s constitutionally elected president Salvador Allende, which marks its fiftieth anniversary this year, brought to a brutal and violent stop the course of several Latin American countries towards welfare states and sovereignty over their own natural (...)
, by MENDOZA Oscar
AS THE DATE nears when we’ll be marking half a century since the overthrow of the Salvador Allende government in Chile on September 11th, I’m taken back to that gray drizzly day when the future we had dreamt of disappeared in a wave of violence, death and repression. Fifty years on from the (...)
, by BENSAÏD Daniel, KELLAWAY Dave
This September marks the 50th anniversary of the US backed coup by Pinochet in Chile. It was one of the heaviest and bloodiest defeats ever suffered by the left and progressive movement in Latin America. There are a number of events being organised in Britain this year to remember and discuss (...)
, by FUENTES Federico, STEDILE Miguel Enrique
In memory of Marta Harnecker, who passed away on June 14, 2019.
During an interview, then-Bolivia Vice-President Álvaro García Linera and Spanish state parliamentarian Pablo Iglesias were exchanging ideas on classic texts and their own initiation into politics when the Spanish activist (...)
, by FUENTES Federico
Marta Harnecker passed away on June 14.
The international left has lost one of its most lucid intellectual, pedagogical educators and determined activists with the passing of Marta Harnecker on June 14, aged 82.
Marta will forever be remembered as one of the most influential and prolific (...)
, by Network of Intellectuals, Artists and Social Movements in Defense of Humanity
“Well, friends, that’s it for today. You have to live in uncertainty and get ahead no matter what it takes. A hug as always, full of dreams and hopes.” – Marta
With these words Marta Harnecker bade farewell to all her friends in her last mail on April 24th, after giving us her last brave (...)
, by Reuters
Eight retired Chilean military officers have been sentenced to 15 years in prison for the murder of popular folk singer Victor Jara during the 1973 coup that installed late dictator Augusto Pinochet in power.
A judge handed down the sentences after leading a long-running inquiry into Jara’s (...)
, by MILIBAND Ralph
What happened in Chile on September 11, 1973 did not suddenly reveal anything new about the ways in which men of power and privilege seek to protect their social order: the history of the last 150 years is spattered with such episodes.
Even so, Chile has at least forced upon many people on (...)
, by GAUDICHAUD Frank, GOICOVIC DONOSO Igor
Fifty years ago, the Movement of the Revolutionary Left (MIR) was born, a political force that marked the history of the Chilean and Latin American left. Franck Gaudichaud provides a brief introduction to this story – still under construction – and discusses it with University of Santiago (...)
, by ROJAS Rene E.
The 1973 coup that toppled Salvador Allende’s Popular Unity (UP) government, unleashing a wave of repression that wiped out a generation of revolutionaries and working class activists, is receiving long-due attention in Chile’s official circles. Forty years after this watershed episode, (...)
, by BLANCO Hugo
While in exile, I was lucky to be part of the process of changes staged by the Chilean people up until Pinochet’s coup d’état. I can summarize my experience with the chess player’s maxim: “Attacking is the best defense,” a truth I painfully attested to in the case of Chile. As it often (...)
, by BURBACH Roger
In Santiago on September 11, 1973 I watched as Chilean air force jets flew overhead. Moments later I heard explosions and saw fireballs of smoke fill the sky as the presidential palace went up in flames. Salvador Allende, the elected Socialist president of Chile died in the palace.
As an (...)
, by BURBACH Roger
On the morning of September 11 I watched aircraft flying overhead. Minutes later I heard explosive sounds and saw fireballs of smoke fill the sky. As a result of these attacks thousands died, including two good friends of mine.
I am not writing about September 11 2001 in New York City. On (...)
, by LANDAU Saul
Landau recalls the 1973 CIA-sponsored coup in Chile that brought to power a military junta, and turned the country into the first laboratory of neoliberalism.
“Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull roots with spring rain.” — T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land
On (...)
, by MILIBAND Ralph
WHAT happened in Chile on 11 September 1973 did not suddenly reveal anything new about the ways in which men of power and privilege seek to protect their social order: the history of the last 150 years is spattered with such episodes. Even so, Chile has at least forced upon many people on the (...)
, by ALLENDE Salvador
The Spanish text (reproduced below second part) is the transcript of the last radio broadcast of Chilean President Salvador Allende, made on 11 September 1973, at 9:10 AM, before he killed himself during the US-backed coup that had Augusto Pinochet overthrow his socialist government. The (...)
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