Tuesday, September 12, 2006

 

Remember September 11th! (1973)

On September 11th 1973, there was a military coup led by General Augusto Pinochet. The violent overthrow of the democratically-elected Popular Unity government of Salvador Allende changed the course of the country that Chilean poet Pablo Neruda described as "a long petal of sea, wine and snow"; because of CIA covert intervention in Chile, and the repressive character of General Pinochet's rule.

So do we want democracy or not? I can't work it out.

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