The Overthrow Of Democratic Chile Part 2 (Salvador Allende)

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Uploaded by on Jan 9, 2011

The 1973 Chilean coup d'état was a watershed event in the history of Chile and the Cold War. On 11 September 1973, the democratically elected President Salvador Allende was overthrown in a coup d'état organised by the Chilean military. A military junta took control of the government, composed of the heads of the Air Force, Navy, Carabineros (police force) and the Army led by General Augusto Pinochet.[1] Pinochet later assumed power and ended Allende's democratically elected Popular Unity government.[2][3]

During the air raids and ground attacks that preceded the coup, Allende gave his last speech where he vowed to stay in the presidential palace.[4] Direct witness accounts of his death agree that he committed suicide in the presidential palace.[5][6] After the coup Pinochet established a military dictatorship that ruled Chile until 1990 and that was marked by severe human rights violations. A weak insurgence movement against the Pinochet government was maintained inside Chile by elements sympathetic to the former Allende government.

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  • Very interesting...are you gonna upload the whole documentary? it'd be great if you can..

    Thanks a lot

  • omg more and more i learn about our economic system more i wanna vomit.

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  • Allende, the bitch of the soviets.

  • os norte americanos são responsaveis pelo caos no mundo.

  • Milton Friedman visited Chile and met with Pinochet or the Pinochet administration? So what? Even if he was an "economic advisor" which I doubt very much, so what? {I'll be totally forthcoming. I'm a Democrat. Domestic liberal and foreign policy conservative.} This idea that the CIA "did this" and "did that" is ludicrous. Sure the CIA did alot of things. Some good. Some not so good. So what? America isn't perfect. So what? We meddle. So what? It's a dangerous world out there.

  • What a great and informative video!!!

    People open your eyes!!!!

  • thank you for showinng us this document of real history. I was finding jaw-dropping things that  happened.

  • what happened to the rest??? it was getting good!

  • That was so qe-ool!!! you should definitly put up the rest of it. I just learn mored more about my dads country! I cant wait to go there in a month.

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