I lived in Chile for a year and learned a lot of different perspectives on the military coup there. I'll admit I knew very little about it before other than it had happened. Sept. 11 has a whole different meaning there and it was weird being in that country when the English news was focused on the recent terrorist attacks in the U.S. and Chile was remembering the 'day democracy died' in their country. Does anyone have any thoughts on what happened?
lots. I have a friend who remembers watching it on Chilean TV as a wee one. i think it's always a crying shame when a legitimately elected government is overthowen by an army. The fact that Nixon was behind it makes my blood boil. Fareed gets the "Chile, that's where they kill their presidents, right?" comment alot. He's telling me this and I say, "you mean one of the nations the US incites the killing of a president?" Add the disappearing of so many people and it was a dark, dark hour. May pinochet and his cronies rot.
It's weird because a lot of the people I met in Chile have a love/hate sort of relationships with Pinochet. They love that he made their economy stronger but they hate how he did it, why he did it, and who he did it with.
