This video is covering the story of the forgotten 9/11. The fascistic coup of Augusto Pinochet which took place in Chile 1973. The purpose of the coup was to remove the socialist president Salvador Allende. I cover the rule of Allende, the coup on the 11th of September as well as the brutal dictatorship of Pinochet.
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Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
2:16 Allende
8:00 September 11th.
12:31 Pinochet
15:55 Conclusion
Transcript:
Hello everybody. The 11th of September holds a special name in the English language, it is called 9/11. We know this because there was a huge tragedy befalling the free world on this date. The event opened the doors for far right policies, extended racism and a significant reduction of civil rights and it would shape Chile for decades to come.
Wait Chile? Yes Chile. I am not talking about 9.11.2001, I am talking about 9.11.1973. An often-overlooked date in the western world. Doesn’t even show up in most history books. It marks the day on which the democratically elected president of Chile was overthrown by the far right regime of Augusto Pinochet which would go on to brutally kill and torture tens of thousands of people while being supported by the United States of America.
Now you may wonder why America during the cold war would support overthrowing a democratically elected leader in Latin America. No you don’t, it’s because he was a Marxist that’s the reason. The people elected a leftist so the Americans supported a coup by a man who would commit incredible crimes against humanity.
We will talk about the government of Salvador Allende, the coup on the 11th of September, the regime of Pinochet and it’s crimes. But first: a shockingly short summary of the history of Chile. The area that would become Chile was populated ever since 10,000 years ago and there were many native peoples living in the area.
Sadly in the grand tradition of white Europeans talking about history they will be entirely ignored today. Around 1500 the Spanish conquistadors began taking over parts of the American continent. Even though there was no gold to be found in Chile they still set up a regime because of the rich agricultural land in the region and later they found copper as well.
From this onward Chile was a colony, like all of the Americas was. Eventually by 1818 Chile gained it’s independence, and Spain was no longer able to resist because the Iberian peninsular was conquered and occupied by a Frenchman who was average height for the time. Chile would then go through many governments and even fought a war to get larger. Eventually by 1925 there was reform towards a presidential system which means that the president leads the country.
Which of course lead to the eventual election that put Salvador Allende into power. He was leading the Popular unity movement which united socialists, communists and social democrats. Because the election was a 3 way race Allende won with 36% of the popular vote. Of course, the two largest candidates had another election to reach a candidate who gets the actual majority, that was of course the Popular unity movement.
Allende announced the country would take “The Chilean Way to Socialism”, this tells us that he was not strictly a Soviet socialist and relied more on adapting to the conditions of his country, similar to Mao and other 3rd wordlist ideologies.
His platform included many interesting things like for example nationalising the vital copper industry along with state critical industries which had been owned by American businesspeople before. He also nationalised the healthcare system to provide care for everyone and engaged in some exciting land reform. Taking land from landowners and giving it to the farmers that actually farm the land.
Of course there was opposition to this, notably by the landowners, the far right and some people in the middle class, but broadly the government was supported by most. Allende at his core was a reformist who wanted to use the democratic system to reach socialism. This was criticised by the Marxist Leninists who wanted to abolish the democracy in favour of a democratic centralist system similar to the USSR and from the other side many radical socialists wanted to just destroy capitalism.
