Chile

Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue

Submitted by Cant Stop the M... on Sun, 10/06/2019 - 5:24am

Something/Someone Old

I have been re-reading the Richard Jury mysteries by Martha Grimes.

THE MAKING OF MONSTERS: CHILE, 1973. A Case Study in CIA Regime Change Operations

Submitted by leveymg on Sun, 03/03/2019 - 4:30pm

THE IMBUNCHE (Traditional Chilean Folk Monster)

11 de septiembre

Submitted by enhydra lutris on Tue, 09/11/2018 - 8:00am

Once upon a time the people of a South American nation elected a Marxist president against the wishes of the US ruling elites.

This was that man, Salvador Allende,

Salvador Allende.jpg

and this was Chile

Another nation's young people turn against neoliberalism

Submitted by gjohnsit on Mon, 12/04/2017 - 9:14pm

The November 16 edition of The Economist made a definitive statement.

At the Movies

Submitted by Cant Stop the M... on Wed, 03/22/2017 - 5:00am

An open thread review of current political movies!

Let's talk about September 11th.

Submitted by Cassiodorus on Sun, 09/11/2016 - 12:41pm

No, not that September 11th. I mean September 11th, 1973, when the CIA, ITT corporation, Nixon and Kissinger coordinated a military coup overthrowing a democratically-elected regime under Salvador Allende and imposing the world's first genuinely neoliberal government under a junta headed by Augusto Pinochet. So okay here's the death toll: