Chile: El Otro 11 de Septiembre: Una antologia acerca el golpe de estado de Pinochet (Spanish Edition) [Paperback]

Pilar Aguilera (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 1, 2003

Amidst the flood of books on 9-11, the editors remind us that September 11 is the anniversary of another horrendous event-General Pinochet's coup in 1973 against the democratically elected Allende government. Included are articles, speeches and poems by Ariel Dorfman, Salvador Allende, Joan Jara, Beatriz Allende, Pablo Neruda, Victor Jara, Mario Benedetti and Fidel Castro. Also available in English (Chile: The Other September 11 1-876175-50-8)

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About the Author

Editors Pilar Aguilera and Ricardo Fredes are young Chileans who now live in Australia.

Product Details

• Paperback: 90 pages
• Publisher: Ocean Press (September 1, 2003)
• Language: Spanish
• ISBN-10: 1876175729
• ISBN-13: 978-1876175726
• Product Dimensions: 8.6 x 5.5 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.3 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,482,585 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Inconvenient truths about US-backed state terror., November 27, 2008

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Preston C. Enright (Denver, CO United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Chile: El Otro 11 de Septiembre: Una antologia acerca del golpe de estado en 1973 (Ocean Sur) (Spanish Edition) (Paperback)

Right-wingers are often trying to 'adapt' history to suit the needs of the power elite. In Chile, the election of Allende threatened the profits of transnational corporations like Anaconda Copper. In this book, Dorfman and others reveal the ways in which the power elite of the U.S. operate like the mafia and protect their 'turf' through violence, with 'statesmen' like Henry Kissinger being one of the head musclemen The Trials of Henry Kissinger. There are even authors who have themselves been involved with this thuggery, like John Perkins Confessions of an Economic Hit Man.
The publisher 'Ocean Sur' has a vast collection on the ugly history of the U.S. in Latin America, and the heroic resistance and resiliance of its people. Today, Michelle Bachelet is the president of Chile. Bachelet was tortured by Pinochet's regime, and her father was killed by it. These facts, and the facts of thousands of other Chileans being brutalized through the evil of the U.S. empire have not been given the airing they deserve. 'El Otro 11 de Septiembre' is an important effort to revive that history that some would like to rationalize or send down the 'memory hole.'
Here are some other resources about events and people we should never forget:
Salvador Allende [Import NTSC Region 0] Patricio Guzman
El Derecho de Vivir en Paz
Las Ultimas Composiciones
Missing
When the Mountains Tremble
Romero (IMPORT)
Latin America: From Colonization to Globalization
Nacla Report on the Americas

5 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars re-writting history, February 2, 2005

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Walter Cooper Cortes (Chile) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Chile: El Otro 11 de Septiembre: Una antologia acerca el golpe de estado de Pinochet (Spanish Edition) (Paperback)

Allende won with only the 36% of the votes, and tried to create in the southern tip of Southamerica a new Cuba, in the cold war era.
Leftwings are experts in "adapting" the history to their convenience. Chilean armed forces liberated Chile from Communism. The facts shall be analysed within their context, back in 1973, when the country was filled by cuban "advisors", training terrorist to prepare a civil war.