Chile The Other September 11

Author : Pilar Aguilera,Ricardo Fredes,Ariel Dorfman
Publisher : Ocean Press (AU)
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173011863309

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Chile by Pilar Aguilera,Ricardo Fredes,Ariel Dorfman Pdf

Amidst the flood of books on 9/11, the editors remind readers that September 11 is the anniversary of another horrendous event--General Pinochet's coup against the democratically elected government of President Salvador Allende. Includes articles, essays, speeches and poems by Ariel Dorfman, Salvador Allende, Pablo Neruda, Beatriz Allende, Victor Jara, Muriel Rukeyser and Fidel Castro. What happened in Chile remains highly controversial as shown by legal challenges to General Pinochet and Henry Kissinger. -------------- "As long as someone controls your history, the truth shall remain just a mystery."-Ben Harper Radical History is a new series from Ocean Press seeking to restore our collective memory of events, struggles and people erased from conventional (and conservative) histories and media. These mini-anthologies include eyewitness accounts and historic, forgotten or ignored documents as well as new essays, chronologies and further reading suggestions. This series is designed to appeal to a new generation of political activists.

Author : Ariel Dorfman,Salvador Allende,Fidel Castro
Publisher : Ocean Press
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780987228376

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Chile: The Other September 11 by Ariel Dorfman,Salvador Allende,Fidel Castro Pdf

This anthology reclaims the tragic date of September 11 as the anniversary of the US-backed coup in Chile in 1973 by General Augusto Pinochet against the popularly elected Allende government. The selection combines moving personal accounts with a political/historical overview of the coup’s significance, featuring Ariel Dorfman's poignant essay, “The last September 11” and President Allende's last radio broadcast.

Author : David Francois
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781913118310

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Chile 1973. The Other 9/11 by David Francois Pdf

A history of the build-up and the ultimate clash during the Chilean coup of 11 September 1973, featuring over 100 color photos, profiles, and maps. In 1970, Salvador Guillermo Allende Gossens, a physician and leftist politician, was elected the President of Chile. Involved in political life for nearly 40 years, Allende adopted a policy of nationalization of industries and collectivization—measures that brought him on a collision course with the legislative and judicial branches of the government, and then the center-right majority of the Chilean Congress. Before long, calls were issued for his overthrow by force. Indeed, on 11 September 1973, the military—supported by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) of the USA—moved to oust Allende, and surrounded La Moneda Palace. After refusing a safe passage, Allende gave his farewell speech on live radio, and La Moneda was then subjected to air strikes and an assault by the Chilean Army. Allende committed suicide. Following Allende’s death, General Augusto Pinochet installed a military junta, thus ending almost four decades of uninterrupted democratic rule in the country. His repressive regime remained in power until 1990. Starting with an in-depth study of the Chilean military, paramilitary forces and different leftist movements in particular, this volume traces the history of the build-up and the ultimate clash during the coup of 11 September 1973. Providing minute details about the motivation, organization and equipment of all involved parties, it also explains why the Chilean military not only launched the coup but also imposed itself in power, and how the leftist movements reacted Illustrated with over 100 photographs, color profiles, and maps describing the equipment, colors, markings and tactics of the Chilean military and its opponents, it is a unique study into a well-known yet much under-studied aspect of Latin America’s military history. “The text is interesting and provides a very readable account and context to what happened and throughout the book, it is well illustrated with archive photos, maps and some fine colour profiles of armoured vehicles and aircraft which modellers in particular will like. I like this series of Latin America at War series from Helion, and have learnt a lot.” —Military Model Scene

Author : Ariel Dorfman Et Al
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : CHILE- HISTORY.
ISBN : 8187496398

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Chile: The Other September 11 by Ariel Dorfman Et Al Pdf

I don't see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its own people.'Henry KissingerThe idea of an 'other' September 11 must seem incredible to some. But as Ariel Dorfman comments: 'During the last 28 years, September 11 has been a date of mourning, for me and millions of others.' This book reclaims that other September 11, when the Chilean armed forces, under Pinochet, ousted the democratically-elected government of President Allende in a coup. It reminds us that the horror visited upon the Chilean people on that day and for nearly two decades thereafter was a result of continuous U.S. involvement in that country. As the U.S., after its own September 11, has embarked on an ambitious and brutal imperial offensive, it is important to remind ourselves that the history of this imperialism goes back a long way, as does the history of resistance to it.

Author : Peter Kornbluh
Publisher : The New Press
Page : 485 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781595589958

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The Pinochet File by Peter Kornbluh Pdf

Revised and updated: the definitive primary-source history of US involvement in General Pinochet’s Chilean coup—“the evidence is overwhelming” (The New Yorker). Published to commemorate the fortieth anniversary of General Augusto Pinochet’s infamous September 11, 1973, military coup in Chile, this updated edition of The Pinochet File reveals the shocking, formerly secret record of the US government’s complicity with atrocity in a foreign country. The book now completes the file on Pinochet’s story, detailing his multiple indictments between 2004 and his death on December 10, 2006, including the Riggs Bank scandal that revealed how the dictator had illegally squirreled away over $26 million in ill-begotten wealth in secret American bank accounts. When it was first released in hardcover, The Pinochet File contributed to the international campaign to hold Pinochet accountable for murder, torture, and terrorism. A new afterword tells the extraordinary story of Henry Kissinger’s attempt to undercut the book’s reception—efforts that generated a major scandal that led to a high-level resignation at the Council on Foreign Relations, illustrating the continued ability of the book to speak truth to power. “The Pinochet File should be considered the long awaited book of record on U.S. intervention in Chile . . . A crisp compelling narrative, almost a political thriller.” —Los Angeles Times

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Chile
ISBN : UCAL:C3228416

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Covert Action in Chile, 1963-1973 by United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities Pdf

Author : Tanya Harmer
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2011-10-10
Category : History
ISBN : 0807869244

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Allende’s Chile and the Inter-American Cold War by Tanya Harmer Pdf

Fidel Castro described Salvador Allende's democratic election as president of Chile in 1970 as the most important revolutionary triumph in Latin America after the Cuban revolution. Yet celebrations were short lived. In Washington, the Nixon administration vowed to destroy Allende's left-wing government while Chilean opposition forces mobilized against him. The result was a battle for Chile that ended in 1973 with a right-wing military coup and a brutal dictatorship lasting nearly twenty years. Tanya Harmer argues that this battle was part of a dynamic inter-American Cold War struggle to determine Latin America's future, shaped more by the contest between Cuba, Chile, the United States, and Brazil than by a conflict between Moscow and Washington. Drawing on firsthand interviews and recently declassified documents from archives in North America, Europe, and South America--including Chile's Foreign Ministry Archive--Harmer provides the most comprehensive account to date of Cuban involvement in Latin America in the early 1970s, Chilean foreign relations during Allende's presidency, Brazil's support for counterrevolution in the Southern Cone, and the Nixon administration's Latin American policies. The Cold War in the Americas, Harmer reveals, is best understood as a multidimensional struggle, involving peoples and ideas from across the hemisphere.

Author : Sergio Bitar
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2017-12-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780299313708

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Prisoner of Pinochet by Sergio Bitar Pdf

A gripping account of daily life as a political prisoner by a former Chilean cabinet minister, offering personal insight into the political climate and historical events of 1970s Chile under military dictator Augusto Pinochet.

Author : Mary Helen Spooner
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1999-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0520221699

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Soldiers in a Narrow Land by Mary Helen Spooner Pdf

"An accurate and objective account of the political events in Chile. . . . An important document for those who want to know what happened, and for those who should not forget."—Isabel Allende

Author : Salvador Allende Gossens,Jane Carolina Canning
Publisher : Ocean Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1876175249

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Salvador Allende Reader by Salvador Allende Gossens,Jane Carolina Canning Pdf

On September 11, 1973, General Augusto Pinochet led a bloody coup against President Salvador Allende in Chile. Allende died in the Presidential Palace as it was attacked by Pinochet’s army. Controversy still surrounds the role of Washington and the CIA in the overthrow of the popularly elected government of Allende, a self-proclaimed Marxist. For decades Allende’s name and the experience of the Popular Unity government was all but erased from history, not only in Chile but internationally. This first-ever anthology presents Allende’s voice and his vision of a more democratic, peaceful and just world to a new generation. "“I don’t see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist because of the irresponsibility of its own people.” Henry Kissinger, on the prospect of Allende’s electoral victory in 1970. "This anthology is the first collection in English of Allende’s speeches and interviews . . . and will be of value for academic collections on Latin America."—Library Journal Features a substantial biographical introduction on Allende and an extensive chronology and bibliography.

Author : Diana Childress
Publisher : Twenty-First Century Books
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2012-08-01
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781467703536

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Augusto Pinochet's Chile, 2nd Edition by Diana Childress Pdf

Augusto Pinochet, commander-in-chief of Chile’s army, rose to power in 1973 when he participated in a military coup to overthrow the president, Salvador Allende. Allende was a Socialist, and the upper classes and the military feared that Socialism would lead to a takeover of the country by the Communist Soviet Union. On September 11 of that year, the military attacked the presidential palace, and Allende committed suicide. Pinochet took charge of the junta formed to rule, naming himself president. Military personnel controlled all phases of the government and industry, and the junta shut down the Congress. National police were stationed on almost every block to enforce curfews and keep order, arresting thousands of Socialists and other “enemies of the state.” Many were tortured, many were exiled or fled into exile, and many just disappeared. The secret police even assassinated opponents outside the country. Pinochet ruled the country with an iron fist for seventeen years even as he brought reforms that stabilized the economy. Increasing unrest and economic problems eventually forced him from office. He was arrested when in Great Britain a few years later and charged with murder and other crimes against humanity. Released for medical reasons, he returned to Chile. He died there in 2006, under indictment for murder and other crimes. Read this book to learn how a trusted military leader became a ruthless dictator, all in the name of protecting his country.

Author : Maha Hilal
Publisher : Broadleaf Books
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2022-01-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781506470474

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Innocent Until Proven Muslim by Maha Hilal Pdf

On September 11, 2001, nineteen terrorists hijacked four airplanes and carried out attacks on the United States, killing more than three thousand Americans and sending the country reeling. Three days after the attacks, President George W. Bush declared, "This is a day when all Americans from every walk of life unite in our resolve for justice and peace." Yet in the days following, Bush declared a "War on Terror," which would result in years of Muslims being targeted on the basis of collective punishment and scapegoating. In 2009, President Barack Obama said, "America must play its role in ushering in a new era of peace." Instead, Obama perpetuated the War on Terror's infrastructure that Bush had put in place, rendering his words entirely empty. President Donald Trump's overtly Islamophobic rhetoric added fuel to the fire, stoking public fears to justify the continuation of the War his predecessors had committed to. In Innocent Until Proven Muslim, scholar and organizer Dr.Maha Hilal tells the powerful story of two decades of the War on Terror, exploring how the official narrative has justified the creation of a sprawling apparatus of state violence rooted in Islamophobia and excused its worst abuses. Hilal offers not only an overview of the many iterations of the War on Terror in law and policy, but also examines how Muslim Americans have internalized oppression, how some influential Muslim Americans have perpetuated collective responsibility, and how the lived experiences of Muslim Americans reflect what it means to live as part of a "suspect" community. Along the way, this marginalized community gives voice to lessons that we can all learn from their experiences, and to what it would take to create a better future. Twenty years after the tragic events of 9/11, we must look at its full legacy in order to move toward a United States that is truly inclusive and unified.

Author : Michael Albertus,Victor Menaldo
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2018-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781107199828

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Authoritarianism and the Elite Origins of Democracy by Michael Albertus,Victor Menaldo Pdf

Provides an innovative theory of regime transitions and outcomes, and tests it using extensive evidence between 1800 and today.

Author : George Melnyk,Christina Parker
Publisher : Athabasca University Press
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2021-02-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781771993012

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Finding Refuge in Canada by George Melnyk,Christina Parker Pdf

Millions of people are displaced each year by war, persecution, and famine and the global refugee population continues to grow. Canada has often been regarded as a benevolent country, welcoming refugees from around the globe. However, refugees have encountered varying kinds of reception in Canada. Finding Refuge in Canada: Narratives of Dislocation is a collection of personal narratives about the refugee experience in Canada. It includes critical perspectives from authors from diverse backgrounds, including refugees, advocates, front-line workers, private sponsors, and civil servants. The narratives collected here confront dominant public discourse about refugee identities and histories and provide deep insight into the social, political, and cultural challenges and opportunities that refugees experience in Canada. Contributors consider Canada’s response to various groups of refugees and how Canadian perspectives on war, conflict, and peace are constructed through the refugee support experience. These individual stories humanize the global refugee crisis and challenge readers to reflect on the transformative potential of more equitable policies and processes. Contributions by Howard Adelman, Irene Boisier Policzer, Shelley Campagnola, Matida Daffeh, Eusebio Garcia, Julia Holland, Bill Janzen, Katharine Lake Berz, Michael Molloy, Adam Policzer, Pablo Policzer, Victor Porter, Boban Stojanović, Cyrus Sundar Singh, and Flora Terah

Author : Kristian Gustafson
Publisher : Potomac Books, Inc.
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 9781612343594

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Hostile Intent by Kristian Gustafson Pdf

Kristian Gustafson's Hostile Intent reexamines one of the most controversial chapters in U.S. intelligence history, the Central Intelligence Agency's covert operations in Chile from 1964 to 1974. At the request of successive U.S. presidents, the CIA in conjunction with the State Department and the Defense Intelligence Agency first acted to prevent Chilean socialist Salvador Allende from becoming the democratically elected president of his country and then tried to undermine his government once he was in office. Allende's government eventually fell in a bloody military coup on September 11, 1973. President Richard Nixon's administration and corporate interests were not sorry to see him go, but did U.S. covert operations actually play a decisive role in Allende's downfall? The declassification of thousands of U.S. government documents over the last several years demands that historians take a new look. Since 1973, most observers have maintained that U.S. machinations were responsible for the success of Gen. Augusto Pinochet's coup that forced Allende's fall and suicide. This assessment has been based on a thin documentary record of U.S. activity, the myth of an all-powerful CIA, and the CIA's checkered history of covert action in Latin America. However, Gustafson convincingly shows the conventional wisdom about the impact of U.S. actions is badly flawed. His meticulous research is based upon an intensive examination of previously unavailable U.S. records as well as interviews with key figures. Hostile Intent is the most comprehensive account to date of U.S. involvement in Chile, and its provocative reinterpretation of this involvement will shape all future debates.