On September 15, 1973, the Chilean musician Victor Jara was tortured and murdered by the Fascist military under the direction of dictator Augusto Pinochet. Pinochet took power in a military coup against the popularly elected socialist government of Salvador Allende. The White House, CIA, Anaconda Copper and ITT were intimately involved in the coup and the economic and political disruption leading up to the overthrow. Jara's supposed killer was found guilty in a Florida courtroom in July 2016. However, the major architects of the coup in the Chilean military, finance and political systems got away with Jara's murder and the murder and torture of thousands of others. In addition, those in the US who were involved, including Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger, have never answered for their crimes. Nixon, of course, is dead. Kissinger's death will draw few tears.
A tune from Victor Jara...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1q2_zOfuGcA&list=PLjGY1Q5b_IbnNWuinaSrPNaKFTwyQPhwW
An alternative look at the history of the 1970s by Ron Jacobs
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Thursday, September 15, 2016
Monday, November 2, 2015
1973--Autumn in America
This is not an excerpt from Daydream Sunset, just an indication of the times the book is about.
http://www.theragblog.com/ron-jacobs-autumn-in-america-1973/
http://www.theragblog.com/ron-jacobs-autumn-in-america-1973/
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