We had Presidential elections in Chile yesterday. This dad is crying because the extreme-right candidate, supporter of Pinochet's dictatorship, openly misogynistic, homophobic and racist, wasn't elected. v.redd.it/ceeiv6yhqq681
Chiles flag if pinochet made it a hereditary dictatorship
Senator Rubio meets with Chilean presidential candidate with ties to the Pinochet dictatorship cooperativa.cl/noticias/pβ¦
[TOMT] Chilean phrase related to hope and the Pinochet dictatorship?
I remember this really poignant Spanish phrase or quote that was short and related to the coup and past eras. It was touching and felt important; I think hope was a theme in it.
Chilean newspaper that received CIA funding to spread anti-Allende propaganda and then supported Pinochet's military dictatorship published article commemorating Hermann GΓΆring theguardian.com/world/202β¦
48 years ago today, beloved Chilean musician and committed socialist Victor Jara was brutally tortured and killed by Pinochetβs dictatorship. One of the tens of thousands of victims of US imperialism in Chile
A Chilean man holding a picture of Salavdor Allende during the Chile protests to commemorate the 47th anniversary of the Coup d'Γ©tat and the beginning of Augusto Pinochet's military dictatorship
Chilean newspaper that received CIA funding to spread anti-Allende propaganda and then supported Pinochet's military dictatorship published article commemorating Hermann GΓΆring. This simultaneous support for neoliberalism and fascism has to be a coincidence! theguardian.com/world/202β¦
Chilean newspaper that received CIA funding to spread anti-Allende propaganda and then supported Pinochet's military dictatorship surprisingly published article commemorating Hermann GΓΆring theguardian.com/world/202β¦
On this day in 1973, Salvadore Allende, the progressive, democratically elected leader of Chile, was deposed and killed in a US-backed coup that installed the right-wing dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet followed by massive murder & torture of union members, artists & activists.
In Chile, The CIA backed a fascist coup by the Pinochet dictatorship in 1973 where thousands were murdered including including democratically elected President Salvador Allende. Tom Morello Instagram post on the βother 9/11β. instagram.com/p/CTtIgGZFRβ¦
Aftermath of Chilean coup: Left photo - soldiers confiscate political literature. Right photo - Soldiers burning literature considered politically subversive under Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship. Photos taken at great personal risk by American photojournalist David Burnett in Santiago, Chile 1973.
Exactly 40 years ago, Margaret Thatcher's government resumed arms exports as normal to Pinochet's military dictatorship in Chile. She told the cabinet it was a "good potential market" for arms exports. UK went on to sell warplanes, warships and missiles. twitter.com/declassifiedUβ¦
Chileans Voted for an End to Neoliberalism: Last week, the people of Chile voted for sweeping structural reform and an end to neoliberalism. It's one of the Left's biggest victories since the end of Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship. jacobinmag.com/2021/05/chβ¦
Mapuche leader Elisa LoncΓ³n has been chosen to preside over the Constituent Convention which will re-write Chile's new Fundamental Law to replace the current text from 1980 passed under the military dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet en.mercopress.com/2021/07β¦
On this day, in 1973, a military coup happened in Chile against the socialist president Salvador Allende, after which an infamous General Augusto Pinochet seized power and established a military dictatorship that lasted till 1990. How Chileans evaluate this event and what happened after it?
Also, it would be dishonest from me to leave out this fact: the coup was supported by the USA as they attempted to weaken any kind of left-wing movements in Latin America.
'Pinochet-Style Dictatorship': Bolivia's Coup Govt Threatens to Arrest Leftist Lawmakers & Journalists. "Bolivia is living through a violent, regressive, completely undemocratic power grab. All govts must sever relations with this illegal regime." commondreams.org/news/201β¦
In Sunday October 25th, Chile said once again No to Pinochet in a National Referendum Poll, winning overwhelmingly (78%) the option to write a new Constitution and to change the one imposed by the dictatorship v.redd.it/h3ltliwmnhv51
Manuel RodrΓguez Patriotic Front (FPMR) militants in an unknown place in Santiago de Chile, fighting against Pinochet's dictatorship during the 80's
Newly de-classified secret files documents CIA's great 'success' in killing the democratically elected Chilean president, installing dictator Pinochet in a coup, enforcing 17 years of social chaos and oppressive dictatorship, internment of 80,000, the torture of tens of thousands youtube.com/watch?v=3jpx7β¦
On Sept 11 1973, a CIA-backed coup overthrew Chile's democratic socialist president Salvador Allende & worked to install Gen. Pinochet's brutal dictatorship, who killed thousands, tortured tens of thousands & imprisoned over 130,000. twitter.com/Americas_Crimβ¦
After the military dictatorship Hernan Buchi would be the conservative candidate, being in a military government, his party (UDI) defenders of the Pinochet government would lose popularity, details in the comments yapms.com/app/?m=9pfs
The last remnant of the Pinochetβs dictatorship is now over! aljazeera.com/amp/news/20β¦
βDown with the Chilean dictatorship!β β Anti-Pinochet poster designed by the San Francisco-based Fireworks Graphic Collective
How did the university of Chicago react to the βChicago Boysβ and the military dictatorship of Pinochet? Did they know about their plans? Was an official statement made? Were they complicit? Did they HELP?
The only official statement from UChicago was this one
> The University of Chicago sparks the imagination of any Chilean because of the Chicago Boys,β says Jocelyn-Holt. Economists trained by UChicago faculty beginning in the 1950s, the Chicago Boys had broad influence in Chile and βwere highly revolutionary in terms of their economic mentality, so you are always curious about what the institution is like from an inside point of view.
Which is hypocritical at best, because this boys literally helped Pinochet run a bloody military dictatorship and are widely hated thru latinamerica
Chilean history: Augusto Pinochet's Dictatorship
Thousands celebrate in Chile following plebiscite vote to end constitution -- Chileans voted overwhelmingly in support of rewriting their constitution, which dates to the dictatorship of Gen Augusto Pinochet. A 155-member assembly will be elected in April next year to draft a new constitution twitter.com/i/events/1320β¦
Newly de-classified secret files documents CIA's great 'success' in killing the democratically elected Chilean president, installing dictator Pinochet in a coup, enforcing 17 years of social chaos and oppressive dictatorship, internment of 80,000, the torture of tens of thousands youtube.com/watch?v=3jpx7β¦
Thousands of people shouting 'murder' to Pinochet. It happened in 1984, during the dictatorship. In Chile, this episode is known as 'El Puntarenazo', one of the first public mass rejections of the dictatorship initiated with 1973's coup against Salvador Allende. v.redd.it/ngh2bacbuav31
On Sept 11 1973, a CIA-backed coup overthrew Chile's democratic socialist president Salvador Allende & worked to install Gen. Pinochet's brutal dictatorship, who killed thousands, tortured tens of thousands & imprisoned over 130,000. twitter.com/Americas_Crimβ¦
In Chile, after the end of Pinochet's dictatorship, a director showed students a previously banned documentary about the coup. This is their reaction. youtu.be/ZjGl7-imyAQ
TIL that Milton Friedman served as an advisor to Chilean Dictator Augusto Pinochet did not criticize Pinochet's dictatorship at the time, nor the assassinations, illegal imprisonments, torture, or other atrocities that were well known by then. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milβ¦
On Sept 11 1973, a CIA-backed coup overthrew Chile's democratic socialist president Salvador Allende & worked to install Gen. Pinochet's brutal dictatorship, who killed thousands, tortured tens of thousands & imprisoned over 130,000. twitter.com/Americas_Crimβ¦
On Sept 11 1973, a CIA-backed coup overthrew Chile's democratic socialist president Salvador Allende & worked to install Gen. Pinochet's brutal dictatorship, who killed thousands, tortured tens of thousands & imprisoned over 130,000. twitter.com/Americas_Crimβ¦
Newly de-classified secret files documents CIA's great 'success' in killing the democratically elected Chilean president, installing dictator Pinochet in a coup, enforcing 17 years of social chaos and oppressive dictatorship, internment of 80,000, the torture of tens of thousands youtube.com/watch?v=3jpx7β¦
Mi General Augusto Pinochet - Chilean Dictatorship song youtu.be/NELLOcJbxGw
Ben Norton: Another historic victory for the people of Latin America: Chile just voted in a landslide in favor of a referendum to rewrite the current, radically right-wing constitution, which is from the Pinochet dictatorship
>https://twitter.com/BenjaminNorton/status/1320538855221714944
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>Video of people in Chile celebrating after a huge majority of people voted to rewrite the Pinochet-era constitution
>https://twitter.com/BenjaminNorton/status/1320541446823383048
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>Chile's president, SebastiΓ‘n PiΓ±era, is a billionaire oligarch who has publicly defended the US-backed military dictator Pinochet.
>Last October, the Chilean people rose up. The regime responded by shooting protesters in the eyes, blinding them en masse
>https://twitter.com/BenjaminNorton/status/1320542942788988929
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>In 1998, Chile's current billionaire right-wing President PiΓ±era defended former military dictator Pinochet, who had been arrested and was facing extradition.
>PiΓ±era declared that Pinochet "deserves all of our solidarity"
>https://twitter.com/BenjaminNorton/status/1320548960617070593
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>Absolutely massive rally in Chile's capital Santiago, celebrating the referendum victory to write a new constitution.
>The country is finally liberating itself from some of the institutional leftovers of the CIA-installed, US-backed Pinochet dictatorship
>https://twitter.com/BenjaminNorton/status/1320583480925954049
Australia was one of the countries with the most Chilean refugees during the Pinochet dictatorship. The regime retaliated to the point of removing Oceania from the news intros of the governmental TV channel.
TIL in 1973 on 9/11 the US, under the Nixon administration, sponsored a Chilean coup d'Γ©tat by fascists who murdered Chilean president Allende and established a fascist military dictatorship under Pinochet en.wikipedia.org/wiki/197β¦
Ben Norton - Another historic victory for the people of Latin America: Chile just voted in a landslide in favor of a referendum to rewrite the current, radically right-wing constitution, which is from the Pinochet dictatorship twitter.com/BenjaminNortoβ¦
"Every shitlib is autoritharian", says top mind in a sub that denies holocaust, supports actual historical dictatorships like Pinochet's and unironically wants to end democracy so the democrat party dissapears. reddit.com/r/The_Donald/cβ¦
βPinochet-Style Dictatorshipβ in Bolivia dwfed.org/2020/01/pinocheβ¦
The Pinochet dictatorship in Chile did not censor films for the sole purpose of limiting political information, but also to reward supporters of the regime. The censors banned movies containing content considered immoral as a way to reward conservative Catholic groups. cambridge.org/core/journaβ¦
78% of the voters approve the process to draft a new Constitution, replacing the one established during the Pinochet dictatorship. bbc.com/news/world-latin-β¦
Chilean history: Augusto Pinochet's Dictatorship
APSR study: The Pinochet dictatorship did not censor films for the sole purpose of limiting political information, but also to reward supporters of the regime. The censors banned movies containing content considered immoral as a way to reward conservative Catholic groups. dropbox.com/s/2uu8ofvulwiβ¦
