By Alexis Polo Gonzalez on September 10, 2023
Allende, photo: memoriachilena
In the early hours of September 11, 1973, the coup forces carried out Operation Silence, in order to silence the media supporting Salvador Allende’s government. The military’s mission was a complete success. However, before they managed to bomb all the transmitting antennas, Allende was able to address the country for the last time. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on September 10, 2023
“The blood of our comrade President
hits harder than bombs and shrapnel.
Thus, it will strike our fists again.”
-Victor Jara (more…)
By José Luis Méndez Méndez on September 9, 2023
photo: Diario Uchile / Radio Universidad de Chile.
In 1964 fascist groups of anti-Cuban terrorists had proclaimed an attempt against the interests and personnel of Cuba outside the territory of the United States, this form of aggression was called “war by the ways of the world”, its promoters were the terrorists Felipe Rivero Diaz and his second the lawyer Miguel San Pedro of the Cuban Nationalist Movement (MNC) (more…)
By Vijay Prashad September 8, 2023
photo: Gracia Barrios (Chile), Multitud III 1972
Imagine this scenario. On 11 September 1973, the reactionary sections of the Chilean army, led by General Augusto Pinochet and given a green light by the US government, did not leave their barracks. President Salvador Allende, who led the Popular Unity government, went to his office in La Moneda in Santiago to announce a plebiscite on his government and to ask for the resignation of several senior generals. Then, Allende continued his fight to bring down inflation and to realize his government’s program to advance the socialist agenda in Chile. (more…)
By Carlos Amorín on September 9, 2023
photo: Gerardo Iglesias
50 years after the coup d’état, without forgetting or forgiveness.
On June 29 of that same year there was even a general rehearsal of a coup that became known as “El Tanquetazo”, because more than a dozen armored vehicles, among them some tanks, together with 70 soldiers, arrived in downtown Santiago trying to take La Moneda, the seat of the Presidency. They were repulsed by the loyal forces commanded by General Carlos Prats. (more…)
By Ana Hurtado on September 6, 2023
photo: Enrique González Enro
My friend Cuban troubadour Ray Fernandez says in one of his songs, “If only I had the patience.” Of course you have it, you have to have it.
Every day is a new thing that the Cuban people have to put up with, not only from the U.S. administration that makes life impossible for them with its well-known hostile policies, but also from their dogs that defend their master even if they sleep in the yard, rain or shine. (more…)
By Raúl Antonio Capote on September 7, 2023 from Havana
photo: Anadolu Agency
The “news” that Cuban troops are participating in combat actions on the Russian side in Ukraine, that comes well seasoned with melodramatic stagings, is grabbing headlines in the main counterrevolutionary media and their affinities in the world. (more…)
By Geraldina Colloti on September 6, 2023
September 11, 1973, Allende’s body is taken from the Presidential Palace
For the 50th anniversary of the coup d’état in Chile against the then president, Salvador Allende, analysis and publications are flourishing. Among them, the journalistic investigation by Francisco Marín Castro (sociologist, writer and director of the newspaper El Ciudadano) and Luis Ravanal Zepeda (forensic doctor), Allende, autopsia de un crimen, recently published in Chile by ediciones Ceibo. (more…)