Chile

Chile Likely To Move More Radically Progressive

November 13, 2013 Editorial, www.theguardian.com Educate! Chile, Finance and the Economy, Student Activism, Youth

Michelle Bachelet will approach a second term with an agenda which is more radical and progressive than that of her first There is no contest between the two leading candidates, Michelle Bachelet and Evelyn Matthei, in Chile's presidential election on Sunday. Ms Bachelet will be re-elected president – the only question being whether she achieves victory in one round or two. The two women do have, however, a shared history . As little girls they were neighbours in the same barracks, when their fathers, both generals in the air force, were friends. But there was always a political divide between the two families, and what bonds there were, were ripped apart by Augusto Pinochet's 1973 coup. Mr Matthei was promoted to run the air force, and remains to this day an unrepentant former member of the military junta. And Ms Bachelet's father was tortured, and died in detention of a stroke. Ms Bachelet will approach a second term with an agenda which if anything is more radical and progressive than that of her first term. Wealth is still concentrated in the hands of a few affluent families, and inequality, particularly in higher education, is a major issue. Pushed by students who have turned out weekly in their thousands in demonstrations which have captured public sympathy, Ms Bachelet is offering free higher education over the next six years.

The Catastrophic Management Of Catastrophe

September 17, 2013 Jerome Roos, www.roarmag.org Educate! Austerity, Chile, Environment, Finance and the Economy, Greece, Spain, Türkiye

The catastrophic management of catastrophe. If there is one line that describes the nature of neoliberal crisis management, that must be it. From Mexico and Latin America in 1982 to the South-East Asian crisis of 1997-’98, and from Turkey and Argentina in the early 2000s to the European debt crisis from 2010 onward — the most catastrophic thing about neoliberal crisis management is not only that it has a penchant to turn already catastrophic financial crises caused by runaway private speculation into an immense source of private gain for the same very financiers responsible for the catastrophe to begin with; but, even more nefariously, that it makes those catastrophes so much more catastrophic than they really need to be for almost everyone else. Notwithstanding all the propaganda and rhetoric about “free markets” promoting democracy and development, the massive bank bailouts of the neoliberal era have invariably shown that those so-called neoliberals in fact care very little even about free markets — let alone about democracy or development.

The Chilean 9/11 – Justice For Victor Jara

September 14, 2013 Staff, www.soaw.org Organize! Chile, Human Rights, Latin America, Wars and Militarism, Worker Rights and Jobs

"As a symbol of our solidarity with the Chilean people, we call on all activists to support the campaign, “Justice for Victor Jara.” The Chilean folksinger was the voice of his country's dispossessed, an internationally admired songwriter, and one of the founders of a new genre of Latin American song. He was killed on September 16, 1973, in the Estadio Chile. His body was dumped in the street, and found riddled with 44 bullets and signs of torture. In December 2012, Chilean Judge Miguel Vazquez Plaza charged former military officers Hugo Sanchez and Pedro Barrientos as responsible for the murder of Victor Jara.[...] Pedro Barrientos currently lives in Deltona, Florida."

Kissinger, Nixon and Chile, The Coup’s Declassified Record

September 12, 2013 Peter Kornbluh, www2.gwu.edu Educate! Chile, Kissinger, Nixon

Kissinger pressed Nixon to overthrow the democratically elected Allende government because his "'model' effect can be insidious," documents show On 40th anniversary of coup, Archive posts top ten documents on Kissinger's role in undermining democracy, supporting military dictatorship in Chile Kissinger overruled aides on military regime's human rights atrocities; told Pinochet in 1976: "We want to help, not undermine you. You did a great service to the West in overthrowing Allende."

Salvador Allende’s Last Words

September 11, 2013 Salvador Allende, www.marxists.org Educate! Chile, Democracy, Latin America, Wars and Militarism, Worker Rights and Jobs

"Surely this will be the last opportunity for me to address you. The Air Force has bombed the towers of Radio Portales and Radio Corporación. My words do not have bitterness but disappointment. May they be a moral punishment for those who have betrayed their oath[...] in our country fascism has been already present for many hours -- in terrorist attacks, blowing up the bridges, cutting the railroad tracks, destroying the oil and gas pipelines, in the face of the silence of those who had the obligation to protect them. They were committed. History will judge them."

Extradition Sought For US Trained Murderer Of Chilean Singer

September 11, 2013 Staff, www.soaw.org Resist! Allende, Chile, Pinochet, School of Americas

On the 40th Anniversary of the U.S.-supported military coup in Chile, SOA Watch is calling for the extradition of Pedro Barrientos, a graduate of the U.S. Army School of the Americas, who currently lives in Florida in the United States. Among the dictatorship's first victims was Victor Jara. He was killed on September 16, 1973. Victor Jara was an admired Chilean folksinger and one of the founders of a new genre of Latin American song. His body was dumped in the street and found with 44 bullets and signs of torture. SOA Watch supports the extradition of Pedro Barrientos, who currently lives in Deltona, Florida to stand trial for the torture and killing of Jara.

How I Learned About September 11

September 11, 2013 Orlando Sepúlvedal, www.socialistworker.org Educate! Chile, Democracy, Latin America, Wars and Militarism

"I REMEMBER those days very vaguely. I recall that suddenly, we couldn't play outside past three in the afternoon at first, then six, then a bit later--and that it took a while for that curfew to get out of the way of our playtime. After all, the sun was setting later every day, and the days were getting warmer. I was four years old[...]I KNOW now that first time our parents yelled at us--kids playing on the corner--to come inside because there was a "toque de queda" (curfew) was September 11, 1973--the day the Chilean bourgeoisie unleashed the military against the people, the day the constitutionally elected president Salvador Allende was ousted, the day the "Chilean Road to Socialism" came abruptly to an end."

Remembering the First 9/11

September 11, 2013 Peter Mayo, www.counterpunch.org Educate! Chile, Latin America, Wars and Militarism

"Wednesday 11th September 2013 marks the fortieth anniversary of what in Latin America is referred to as ‘El primer 11 de septiembre’(the first 11th September). It is the fortieth anniversary of the bloody coup which paved the way, and is said to have been deliberately staged to pave the way, for the introduction of the very same neoliberal reforms that, later at a global level, are shown to have benefited from the measures adopted post 9/11/2001. 9/11/2001 marks the third 11th September following the one in Chile and later the coup in Turkey, for similar reasons (paving the way for a neoliberal market economy), which was staged a day later, that is on the 12th September, this time in 1980."

40 Year Fight For Justice Against Pinochet

September 8, 2013 Edward Helmore, www.theguardian.com Educate! Chile

Among thousands of Chileans caught in a brutal roundup following the military coup that unseated President Salvador Allende was Charles Horman, a young American journalist who had settled in Santiago with his wife Joyce. For days, Joyce Horman had no idea what had happened to her husband. He had realised they were in trouble and had been out trying to buy plane tickets. Joyce was caught in the curfew, but when she got home the next morning Charles was gone. Their home had been ransacked; neighbours warned her to flee, as the soldiers would return. Santiago was under curfew, its streets running with soldiers. Her father-in-law, Ed Horman, went to Chile to help. "Bless his courageous soul," she told the Observer. "He came to the heart of the coup to look for his only son." Today, sher considers herself privileged to at least know the circumstances of her husband's death when so many families of the 3,000 Chileans who went missing still do not. "Missing is a dreadful state of mind: so many have lived for years without knowing."

US History of Overthrowing Elected Leaders

June 23, 2013 Andy Piascik, www.ctpost.com Educate! Brazil, Chile, Congo, Democracy, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Haiti, Indonesia, Iran, Vietnam, Wars and Militarism

One dramatic change in the last 50 years is the consistent opposition of the American public to such interventions. This was perhaps best illustrated in the 1980’s when U.S. solidarity movements undoubtedly prevented greater bloodshed in South Africa, El Salvador, Nicaragua and possibly other places. One striking feature were the thousands who travelled to work alongside Nicaraguan peasants as well as to serve as a human shield, knowing the U.S. backed contras were less likely to murder Americans. The intelligentsia here, if it ever reported this remarkable phenomenon, surely prefers to forget; people in Nicaragua and the rest of Latin America, not to mention the Washington planners of contra terror, most definitely have not.

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