Voice of the Waterlily- Our Stories

Ep. 99 Pt.2 Chile's 9/11: Memory as resistance 50 years later


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There are dates in history that have become infamous because of horrific acts of human violence, where the shocking and senseless loss of human life traumatizes and horrifies the world and embeds wounds in the psyche of individuals and entire nations. One of those infamous dates is September 11, except we aren’t talking about 2001, we are talking about 1973. Twenty-eight years earlier, Chile experienced that same horror, death and terror. This time, however, the United States fully supported what happened. And we have to ask, why? Because Chileans exercised their democratic rights and elected a socialist and self proclaimed Marxist, becoming the first country in the world to do so. The US government deemed this utterly unacceptable, their solution was to support a coup that would take the lives of thousands, torture thousands more and embed deep wounds in the psyche of Chile. While in the U.S., people pledge to never forget September 11, 2001, they will continually ignore Chile’s 9/11, when the United States fully supported the overthrow of a democratically elected president in favor of a fascist who brutally took power, savagely tried to destroy opposition and terrorized an entire country, not once, not for one day, but for 17 long and dark years, Pinochet ruled by a doctrine of terror, using torture and disappearances as a form of government. This is the 2nd part of a two part show we will be talking about what happened in Chile, but most importantly we will be using memory as a way to honor the victims of that regime and help heal those wounds. We will be using memory as an act of resistance. 

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Illapu - Aunque los pasos toquen (video) ⁠https://youtu.be/5mpgFbC1j5Y?feature=shared⁠


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Voice of the Waterlily- Our StoriesBy Anani Kaike

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