This is an amazing three-part documentary by Chilean director Patricio Guzmán about the efforts to build a socialist society in Salvador Allende's Chile and the US-backed subversion of it.
In Spanish with English subtitles.
Part 1: La Insurreción de la Burgesía (The Insurrection of the Bourgeoise): https://youtu.be/wlEwPZkME_o
Part 2: El Golpe de Estado (The Coup d'État): https://youtu.be/eBvdYwmLR7I
Part 3: Poder Popular (People's Power): https://youtu.be/L134gEtIuNw
Massive battle(100+ warriors) Event in Chile it´s the same event that in my previous post we were training
You have to tell and share these stories, otherwise they vanish. Hope you enjoy! This is from a string of twitter posts by Impedimento, translated by me. I also added some information about the story that I found valuable.
Exactly 80 years ago today, a French steamer called SS Winnipeg arrived in Chile, bringing 2200 Spanish refugees, many of them from the Basque country. This was shortly after General Franco’s victory over the Republicans in the Civil War. The man in France behind the humanitarian effort was no less than Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, who had previously worked as diplomat in Spain and was appointed special consul in all matters regarding Spanish emigration. The Winnipeg left Pauillac, on the French coast, and arrived in Valparaíso a month later.
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I felt them between my fingers
the Spanish seeds
that I harboured myself, and later sowed
over the ocean, peace-bound,
towards the meadows
A free translation by me of an excerpt from Pablo Neruda’s Misión de Amor (Mission of Love), published in his 1964 book Memorial de Isla Negra, never published in English. Neruda later mentioned the SS Winnipeg operation as “the noblest mission I have ever undertaken”.
Right, cool story, but where does football comes into play here? Sit back and let me tell you, you fucking plastic. /s
The Basque national football team was far from Spain when Bilbao fell under Franco’s grip. Seeing themselves in a forced exile, they decided to tour the world to raise awareness about the war and the events back in their homeland. At first they travelled around Europe but in 1937 they crossed the Atlantic to a Mexican tour.
Mexico was the only country in which the “illegitimate" Basques were allowed by FIFA to play against the local clubs. When it came to the rest of South America, it wasn’t so easy. In February, 1938, after a short stop in Cuba, the team sailed south to Buenos Aires, where they hoped to face Boca Juniors and River Plate, but these matches never happened. Argentina was one of the first countries to recognize Franco’s government and side with him. The Basques, then, returned to North America. Two players from the squad remained in Argentina, resigned with the idea of never returning to their home country.
But the boat trip from Buenos Aires to Mexico was long and demanding. They had
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