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The Awful Story of South America's Most Evil Dictator
تم نشره في 2021/12/18
This is the story of state terror in Argentina in the ‘70s and ‘80s: what is traditionally called the “Dirty War.” It’s the story of how a military regime, led mainly by a dictator named Jorge Videla, tortured and killed tens of thousands of people while implementing neoliberal economic “reforms.” But it’s also the story of how they were helped along in that process by people like Henry Kissinger and Elliot Abrams – and how those accomplices were never punished. Pablo Pryluka, PhD student in Latin American history at Princeton University, explains. Citations: shorturl.at/fwBY6 These videos are 100 percent funded by small donations from people like you. And we really need your help. So if you can, join us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/gravelinstitute Or, if you prefer, give a one-time donation: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/gi-youtube/?refcode=VIDEO&amount=4.20 And if you want, get some Institute merch: https://merch.gravelinstitute.org/ 0:00 Argentina's coup 2:25 State terror 6:11 Economic "reform" 7:52 American support 10:52 The regime falls 13:15 Credits
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In response, the US sent in the CIA to coordinate right-wing resistance and propaganda (including right-wing newspaper “El Mercurio”) and support the Chilean armed forces. They helped the nascent fascist activist group Patria y Libertad grow to prominence so that they could act as brown shirts, helped fund trucker strikes to internally sabotage the economy, externally blockaded the country financially, worked to make the DC hostile to Allende, helped get Allende’s loyalist head of the army assassinated, and caused a fake shortage of goods so that breadlines and inflation would happen, among other things. Eventually, Allende declared he’d do a public referendum to decide if he should stay or if new elections should happen. Initially, he wanted to do (or announce? Can't remember) this referendum on the 11th of September, 1973, however his new head of armed forces, General Augusto Pinochet, convinced Allende to move it forward a few days.
The reason became clear on the 11th of September, 1973: the Chilean navy blockaded and invaded our main port city of Valparaiso, and the Chilean army besieged the government building, La Moneda, while two Chilean airforce bombers bombarded La Moneda. Allende, refusing to surrender, committed suicide after one last public broadcast, and then it was revealed that Augusto Pinochet was a leading member of the cue, becoming Chile’s dictator.
This is where it becomes familiar to Argentina: people were kidnapped, tortured, raped, and killed in an attempt to “purge communism” while the dictatorship implemented neoliberal policies by force, and Pinochet personally enriched himself through shady means.
This came to an end with a referendum on 1988 and subsequent democratic elections in 1989. Pinochet and many others would not be prosecuted, and he would die in his home, surrounded by family, of old age in 2006. The Constitution written during the dictatorship is still ongoing today (although we recently elected to change it, and a new one is in process of being written). This Sunday, we will see if we can finally unshackle from the legacy of Pinochet and the CIA by either electing a social democrat Gabriel Boric, or a Pinochet supporter. Wish us luck.
Edit: El Mercurio and the DC are still around and very influential in Chile. As for the artificial shortages, they were relieved the day of the 9/11 cue because soldiers “found” lots of unsold produce tucked away in storage rooms.
Edit 2: the channel 3 Arrows talks about the Brazilian dictatorship, if you’re interested in seeing how Operation: Condor affected the rest of South America. (
Edit 3: Gabriel Boric has won a crushing victory against the Pinochet supporting candidate.
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Thank you guys for your work. Keep it up! ....وسعت 256
To note, a fall of intern food market in Argentina, a country specialized in agriculture.
This, display junta governement's incompetence. ....وسعت 16
Fantastic work. Thank you.
Survivors from the military school that served as their clandestine concentration camp and torture centre later testified that she also had to work as a midwife (something he had no training for) helping to birth the children of the pregnant political prisoners that were later stolen.
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