Latin America

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by George Venturini *

The first 9/11 occurred in 1973 in Santiago, Chile and places nearby. President Richard
Milhous Nixon and Dr. Henry Alfred Kissinger were the instigators, General Augusto
Pinochet simply the executioner.

The United States has been interfering with Chile since the arrival of Joel Roberts Poinsett as
‘special agent’ in 1811. The story of the first 9/11 began, most likely, on 15 September 1970
when Nixon and his consiglieri: Richard Helms, Director of the Central Intelligence Agency
and Kissinger, National Security Adviser were discussing a possible C.I.A. covert operation
in Chile.

Media sources confirmed that Nixon had been nearly beside himself with rage at the thought
that ‘Marxist’ Salvador Allende might win the 1970 presidential election in Chile. The very
name of Allende was anathema to Nixon. He had been personally beholden to the president
of Pepsi Cola from the moment he had received that corporation’s account while a young
lawyer with John Mitchell’s firm in New York. In time Mitchell would share with Nixon the
fate of Watergate and other crimes. But, after the ‘Watergate’ affaires, only Mitchell ended
up in gaol for conspiracy, obstruction of justice, and perjury.

Pepsi Cola, along with Chase Manhattan Bank, International Telephone & Telegraph and
many other corporations, but above all Anaconda Copper Mining Co. and Kennecott Copper
Co., had huge investments in Chile. It is estimated that in the early seventies those two major
mining corporations alone controlled between seven and twenty per cent of Chile’s Gross
Domestic Product.

More:
https://www.countercurrents.org/venturini090311.pdf

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Wikipedia: Human rights abuses in Chile under Augusto Pinochet


Human rights abuses in Chile under Augusto Pinochet were the crimes against humanity, persecution of opponents, political repression, and state terrorism committed by the Chilean Armed Forces, members of Carabineros de Chile and civil repressive agents members of a secret police, during the military dictatorship of Chile under General Augusto Pinochet from 1973 to 1990.

According to the Commission of Truth and Reconciliation (Rettig Commission) and the National Commission on Political Imprisonment and Torture (Valech Commission), the number of direct victims of human rights violations in Chile accounts for around 30,000 people: 27,255 tortured and 2,279 executed. In addition, some 200,000 people suffered exile and an unknown number went through clandestine centers and illegal detention.[citation needed]

The systematic human rights violations that were committed by the military dictatorship of Chile, under General Augusto Pinochet, included gruesome acts of physical and sexual abuse, as well as psychological damage. From 1973 to 1990, Chilean armed forces, the police and all those aligned with the military junta were involved in institutionalizing fear and terror in Chile.[1]

The most prevalent forms of state-sponsored torture that Chilean prisoners endured were electric shocks, waterboarding, beatings, and sexual abuse. Another common mechanism of torture employed was "disappearing" those who were deemed to be potentially subversive because they adhered to leftist political doctrines. The tactic of "disappearing" the enemies of the Pinochet regime was systematically carried out during the first four years of military rule. The "disappeared" were held in secret, subjected to torture and were often never seen again. . . .

More:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_abuses_in_Chile_under_Augusto_Pinochet