Assassination on U.S. Soil: Orlando Letelier's Son Seeks Justice for 1976 Bombing by Pinochet Regime
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- Опубликовано: 25 сен 2023
- As part of events marking the 50th anniversary of the U.S.-backed military coup in Chile that ousted democratically elected socialist President Salvador Allende and led to the dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet, Chilean President Gabriel Boric visited Washington, D.C., Saturday to deliver a historic address. He spoke at the site where former Chilean diplomat Orlando Letelier was assassinated in 1976 by agents of the Pinochet dictatorship, along with his co-worker Ronni Moffitt. We feature excerpts from the address and speak with Letelier's son, Juan Pablo Letelier, a former member of the Chilean House and Senate with the Socialist Party, about his father's assassination and the Boric administration's work toward redress for the families of victims of Pinochet's regime.
Transcript: www.democracynow.org/2023/9/2...
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I wish Americans could get into their heads that what happened to Allende could happen here in the U.S. .
11/22/63
It already has: The Assassination of President John F Kennedy November 22,1963. A U.S.coup d'etat took place on that day,by " Powers that Be " President Kennedy wanted Peace,Democracy within the U.S.and with other countries,the "Powers that Be," did Not.
It’s always happening to targeted individuals ruining social status to steal it for migrants by u.s. natives… L.M.
nah Amarikans are busy watching AGT.
Justice for Letelier!!!
Thanks to let finaly people to speak about what was happening in chili during the dictature ,and some others latins country s who had suffer so much and we don t give them so often the opportuntly to talk about ...
The CIA has been taking out these foreigner leaders for years starting in 1956 over the Suez Canal until 1963 in both Kennedys but started back when they were losing control of South Africa in 1966 and it's been business as usual
Kidd , please keep telling it like it is 🥺! The US foreign policy is terrible 😫 !
@curtrice6060 wonder where was "Papa Bush"? head of CIA
@@carmennadel65 probably colluding with the FCC to put tracking devices in our phones causing the Chinese to incorporating in all phones to be bought in America
I953 in Iran. The US overthrew the elected leader and installed the Shah.
Amaze.From Brazil.great Reportage
12:50 did he just call him Pino-shit? Baller.
Yes, he did!
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Pinochet - pronouncing the final "T" appears to be the correct Spanish pronunciation of his name (Juan Gonzalez would NOT get it wrong). Only in French would the final "T" be silent.
@@Erschophone Pinochet is not a spanish name
The Devil’s Chessboard.
😢❤🇺🇲🇨🇱 We say never forget 9/11 2001, we must also never forget 9/11 1973, both attacks against humanity by far right terror. And never forget the terrible 1976 murder...
Leftist and right wing are two sides of the same coin. There's no one to choose. Both are evil
Far right terror?
@@RaccoonNation Yes, Pinochet's far right fascist regime's reign of terror, and Islamic extremists attack of terror.
WHAT???!!!!! 😱 How...wha... 😧
Why would we DO that to a democratic country with a democratically-elected leader? 🥺 That's completely antithetical to core American values, & it makes me very sad. 😢 WTH were they THINKING?! 😭
Our leaders have been doing it for decades, that's one of the reasons Americans are opposed to war in Iraq, Syria, Lybia, and Ukraine
The United Corporations of America murder rivals all over the world all the time. Look up Darya Dugina.
The US has positioned itself as the "consumer of last resort" at the end of the global supply chain to absorb inevitable overproduction of capitalism through cheap consumption or of course through our favorite activity of war/arms sales (military Keynesianism, the only button we can push at this point clearly), launching itself to hegemony post-WWII via imposing the Bretton-Woods international financial system with the US dollar as the "global reserve currency" using the leverage of being the only industrialized nation-state _not_ bombed to shit and taking the imperial baton from the British and their pound sterling, creating the World Bank and IMF which trap nation-states into dependency relationships to perpetually extract rent and maintain "full spectrum domination" over the global working class for the benefit of transnational corporate/finance capital (maintained by regional oligarchies in subordinated nation-states). As Nixon's treasury secretary John Connally succinctly put it, _"The dollar is our currency, but _*_your_*_ problem."_ See: "washington consensus" and its "structural adjustment" policies (hence the emergence of BRICS broadly aligned _against_ this global financial coercion and all that it entails).
This is relevant because this car bomb was manufactured by the Chilean operations branch of the Ford Motor Company's president Vernon Townley's CIA-adjacent/DINA (Chilean secret police) son Michael Townley, who is now in the US witness protection program with his entire family..."funny" that...
This was a part of Operation Condor (9:26), a fascist paramilitary terror network that sprawls across south america established by US intelligence in allegiance with literal SS like Klaus "butcher of Lyon" Barbie in Bolivia and Paul Schafer (see: Colonia Dignidad - direct ties to Townley, as revealed by Townley himself in the court case) in Chile, connected via nodes linked to NATO in Europe via Portugal (also see: Aginter Press) and "rat lines" established prior by the various right-wing cells within the Catholic Church.
NATO is an arms distribution network for the military industrial complex and essentially the public face of a European sphere of US domination, covertly enforced by a "strategy of tension" of violent social control mediated by corporate-controlled technology (check out Chomsky/Herman's Manufacturing Consent or Inventing Reality by Michael Parenti for historical evolution of advertising/propaganda models developed with psychos like Ed Bernays, and the foundational corporate media filters that entrench themselves over time) seen in things like Operation Gladio in Italy (see: "years of lead", Aldo Moro assassination, Bologna bombings, etc.) with parallel operations in _every_ NATO country (and even non-NATO countries like Finland and Sweden, their recent officialization of this being more or less perfunctory) where the CIA directed explicitly fascist paramilitary insurgencies ("stay-behind" armies, justified under a familiar appeal to a nonexistent manichean threat) to stoke public fear toward particular goals favorable to US corporate/finance capital and continued US hegemony. Its internally recognized geopolitical functionality or raison d'être as succinctly put by its first sec.gen Lord Ismay was to, _"keep the Americans in, the Germans down, and the Russians out"_ and hey, what a "coincidence", it appears to continue to enforce this state of affairs, especially obvious when noting the industrial sabotage of Nord Stream II clearly perpetrated by the US against Germany (a callback to interwar Germany and its imposed separation by Western powers to prevent a socialist-aligned industrial base which the Bolsheviks were _explicitly_ counting on for the USSR project to have any chance at success).
Keeping this macro historical trajectory and framework in mind, now we can look at the continuity of blatant invasion and "regime change" history perpetrated both covertly and overtly by the US which _led_ to such geopolitical reaction and includes Ukraine itself in 2004 _and_ 2014, culminating in the brazen invasion of Iraq killing at least a million Iraqis, will illuminate the mechanical functionality and material logic underpinning these political choices (specifically, one can more clearly assess the _only_ political question: _cui bono?_ *_Who benefits?_* ); the common rhetorical cudgel of "whataboutism" conveniently elides consideration in this holistic understanding of tidal _material_ forces in continuous unbroken relation (see: "dialectical materialism", "historical materialism" for more), despite the reality that existence _precedes_ essence (as Sartre succinctly put the causality), ie disentangling the material/descriptive/"objective" from the moral/normative/"subjective" so as to not conflate them and ground ourselves to reality rather than some arbitrary notion of "good" or "bad" provided to us from above.
To list just a few reference points: Iran in '53 overthrowing democratically elected Mossadegh to prevent nationalization of oil and installing the Shah, Guatemala in '54 to prevent democratically elected Arbenz from mild land redistribution, Sukarno in Indonesia putting in Suharto who would invade East Timor backed by the US, Lumumba in the Congo, the _first_ 9/11 in '73 overthrowing democratically elected Allende to put in Pinochet's military dictatorship, Operation Cyclone funding/training the mujahideen in Afghanistan to provoke the USSR into invasion in the 80s (almost a 1:1 of Ukraine), to "give the USSR its own Vietnam" as psycho natsec cold-warrior advisor to Carter & Reagan Zbigniew Brzezinski put it - the mujahideen infamously fracturing into the Taliban and Al Qaeda, "oops" - my god this is merely the _tip_ of the imperialist iceberg - and this is of course _besides_ the overt depravity of Korea (killing ~20% of its population - gee, almost like that's why they set out to acquire nukes, Gaddafi serving as example of what happens when nukes are voluntarily given up ie NATO bombing in 2011...), Vietnam (including Cambodia, Laos and with the intention of "containing China" as revealed by Pentagon Papers), etc. etc...
Reminded of Michael Parenti, an excerpt from his piece Mystery: How Wealth Creates Poverty In The World,
_"In their perpetual confusion, some liberal critics conclude that foreign aid and IMF and World Bank structural adjustments “do not work”; the end result is less self-sufficiency and more poverty for the recipient nations, they point out. Why then do the rich member states continue to fund the IMF and World Bank? Are their leaders just less intelligent than the critics who keep pointing out to them that their policies are having the opposite effect?_
_No, it is the critics who are stupid not the western leaders and investors who own so much of the world and enjoy such immense wealth and success. They pursue their aid and foreign loan programs because such programs do work. The question is, work for whom? Cui bono?_
_The purpose behind their investments, loans, and aid programs is not to uplift the masses in other countries. That is certainly not the business they are in. The purpose is to serve the interests of global capital accumulation, to take over the lands and local economies of Third World peoples, monopolize their markets, depress their wages, indenture their labor with enormous debts, privatize their public service sector, and prevent these nations from emerging as trade competitors by not allowing them a normal development._
_In these respects, investments, foreign loans, and structural adjustments work very well indeed._
_The real mystery is: why do some people find such an analysis to be so improbable, a “conspiratorial” imagining? Why are they skeptical that U.S. rulers knowingly and deliberately pursue such ruthless policies (suppress wages, rollback environmental protections, eliminate the public sector, cut human services) in the Third World? These rulers are pursuing much the same policies right here in our own country!_
_Isn’t it time that liberal critics stop thinking that the people who own so much of the world---and want to own it all---are “incompetent” or “misguided” or “failing to see the unintended consequences of their policies”? You are not being very smart when you think your enemies are not as smart as you. They know where their interests lie, and so should we."_
Nuclear apocalypse is the ultimate destination of endless escalation which thanks to the material interests staked in entrenching global bourgeoisie dictatorship over the global working class achieved under the pretext of the "cold" war (not very "cold" when, say, engulfed in napalm...) happens to be the raison d'être of the US natsec state since its inception; the divine right of "the market", the management of savagery, a means to no ends - where all possibility is strictly bound to profitability and everything and everyone, including the very planet itself, is for sale for the privatized profits of insatiable individual psychopaths who despite having everything only ever want more...
To echo Rosa Luxemburg from interwar Germany, before of course being executed by the freikorps paramilitary (later becoming the SS, shocker) at the behest of Ebert's ostensibly _social democratic_ SPD party, almost immediately resonating the truth of such a succinct political dichotomy to this day:
*_Socialism or_* [continued] *_barbarism._*
_"The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it."_ - some guy
If globalism lifted so many out of their poverty why are so many migrating out of their country?
@@Bisquick Yes,I understand.
Others prominentes killed by Pinochet; in Chile General Schneider Army's chief. In Argentina; General Prats ex Army chief and his wife, in Italy General Leighton ex Air Force chief.
This assassination didn't happen without CIA help.
Definitely not.
DOWN WITH IMPERIALISM
Free Gonzalo Lira 😢
After all the chaos made because if the US..these ppl still believe in democracy.??
Unfortunately, im pretty sure this is the way we're going
All this time I thought Raskin was Black. I'm happy either way. I'm just surprised. I'd elaborated another entire identity for him.
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LOL Amarikans are ALWAYS the last one to learn of their govt's atrocities and war crimes committed all over the world.
It’s spelled “Americans”
The US backed car bombing in the Washington murder of the Chilean leader reminds me of the US backed murder of Darya Dugina by the NAZIs in Ukraine recently. Somethings never change.
Oh Paul , I’m 80 years old. My whole life, has been filled with injustices 🥺! Abusing Mother Earth, unethical pay , oligarchs making war, etc. ! 😞☹️🥺😫
I am 76 and have had the same experiences. I am still pissed and you are OK with it I guess. SAD.@@curtrice6060
Dod this station cover international peace day last week