51 years ago today, Salvador Allende, the democratically elected president of Chile, was overthrown in a bloody US backed coup.
When Allende was elected, Nixon ordered the CIA to “make the economy scream” in Chile, via sabotage & sanctions.
Then the US put fascist dictator Pinochet in power.
On this day in 1973, socialist and Chilean president Salvador Allende was killed in the US-backed Pinochet coup. Pinochet’s brutal rule lasted for nearly two decades, and over 43,000 people were executed, tortured, or disappeared.
On this day in 1973, General Augusto Pinochet, backed by the CIA launches a coup against Chile’s socialist President Salvador Allende after a protracted US campaign to sabotage and impoverish the Chilean people.
Allende took up arms himself during the fascist coup until his death in the presidential palace La Moneda. In his last address to the people, he said, “I will not resign! Placed in a historical transition, I will pay with my life for the loyalty of the People” and “They can smash us, but the social processes are not detained, neither with crimes nor with power. History is ours, and the people will make it.”
Under Allende’s leadership, Chile nationalized its mineral wealth and expropriated corporations and banks. However, because capitalist forces were not suppressed, they used Pinochet and the US to install a fascist dictatorship.
Today we remember the worthy and courageous Constitutional President of #Chile, Salvador Allende. #Cuba pays meaningful and permanent tribute to his immortal legacy. “I will pay with my life for the loyalty of the people”…. Allende
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