When The US Backed Coup in Chile Overthrew Salvador Allende on September 11 1973 and Installed General Pinochet
Tito Tricot a Chilean academic wrote in The Guardian in 2002, “Our dreams were shattered one cloudy morning when the military overthrew the democratically elected government of Salvador Allende.” Remembering September 11 1973Were the lives of those killed at the World Trade Centre more valuable than the innocents murdered in Chile's US-backed coup, asks Tito Tricot On that fateful day, Sept 11 1973, a US CIA-backed coup overthrew Chile's popular democratic socialist president Salvador Allende and install General Augusto Pinochet's who presided over a brutal dictatorship, that murdered thousands, tortured tens of thousands and imprisoned in excess of 130,000 Chileans. Unhappy with the election victory of Salvador Allende in 1970, the CIA immediately commenced operations to destabilize his democratically elected government, because it was socialist and communists in US controlled Latin America were persona non grata.The US, President R...