The September 11 that Washington Ignores … 1973: Bottup, Spain

General Augusto Pinochet and associates: Brought to power in a bloody, CIA-sponsored coup on September 11, 1973

As any Chilean will tell you, 2001 wasn’t the first time something horrific happened on September 11th. On that day in 1973 and in the crucible of the Cold War, the democratically-elected government of Chile was toppled in a CIA-sponsored coup.

Examining the coincidence for Spain’s Bottup with evident emotion, Sebastián Liera writes in part:

“The majority of the propagandistic, self-proclaimed communications media, especially the electronic, will devote many hours and bytes of the available electromagnetic spectrum in concession to the “memory” of just the second of these dates: that of the tragic attack on the part of – it is said without being satisfactorily proven – the Taliban-al-Qaeda organization on the so-called “Twin Towers” which housed the global headquarters of the World Trade Center in New York.

But it’s not about this overworked – and at the same time completely unclear – September 11th, the little workhorse that keeps the most backward sectors of the political right in the United States in power, that we want to talk about. Instead, we wish to discuss the other September 11th, when the Chilean armed forces, ordered by the Commanders-in-Chief of the Army, Air Force and the Navy, the general director of Carabineros, the felons Augusto Pinochet, Gustavo Leigh, José Toribio and César Mendoza, attacked the Presidential Palace.”

By Sebastián Liera

Translated By Douglas Myles Rasmussen

September 11, 2008

Spain – Bottup – Original Article (Spanish)

On that day – the first of the 17-years that the military dictatorship in Chile lasted – it was more than just a man of such moral and political stature as Salvador Allende that died in combat . We can say without fear of being wrong that neo-liberalism – the justification and practice of the most savage and criminal part of the already criminal and savage capitalism – can find no better occasion to express itself as a global system – that condemns all of humanity to repeat, over and over again, on a morning without a future – than the two September 11ths that the calendar gave us in 1973 and 2001.

[Editor's note: On the Latin-American left, the word neo-liberalism is synonymous with capitalism run amuck, and control of the economy by a few well-connected individuals with ties to the United States. In essence, the term implies a reliance on free-markets and free-trade rather than government interventionism .]

The majority of the propagandistic, self-proclaimed communications media, especially the electronic, will devote many hours and bytes of the available electromagnetic spectrum in concession to the “memory” of just the second of these dates: that of the tragic attack on the part of – it is said without being satisfactorily proven – the Taliban-al-Qaeda organization on the so-called “Twin Towers” which housed the global headquarters of the World Trade Center in New York.

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