A gray morning again. 9/11 in my country.
By marguicha
@marguicha (230365)
Chile
September 11, 2018 7:20am CST
I have to do some errands. Andrés will come to help me out as I need to go places with a car. I hired him as the worst paid Uber to take me places.
He is coming for breakfast today. I just called him and woke him up. We need to do many thing in the morning because September 11th is the anniversary of the coup of 1973 and there are lots of protests and marches. People that don´t want to be involved in that usually get into their houses immediately after lunch.
In 1973, on a morning such as this one, I heard on the radio the last speech of Presiden Allende and was looking at the Andes mountains wondering why the big mountains did nor fall and the birds were still alive
45 years later, the scars open and bleed still every 9/11 and the families mourn their losses.
He is coming for breakfast today. I just called him and woke him up. We need to do many thing in the morning because September 11th is the anniversary of the coup of 1973 and there are lots of protests and marches. People that don´t want to be involved in that usually get into their houses immediately after lunch.
In 1973, on a morning such as this one, I heard on the radio the last speech of Presiden Allende and was looking at the Andes mountains wondering why the big mountains did nor fall and the birds were still alive
45 years later, the scars open and bleed still every 9/11 and the families mourn their losses.
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@marguicha (230365)
• Chile
11 Sep 18
No. There are many people that want some prisoners to be tortured into telling more about what they did then. I don´t agree with that, but I think that those days should not be forgotten. We lost a whole generation, families were separated, children grew up in exile. There are still a few politicians who agree with Pinochet. I wish that those people were banned from any kind of public service.
The worst for me is that this is not taught enough in classes. There are lots of Chilean who had not been born then.
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@marguicha (230365)
• Chile
12 Sep 18
@topffer I suppose you do know that the coup was done with the aid of the CIA. Now the papers are declassified. The US was worried about South America having socialist Presidents. Other countries here also had military dictators too.
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@topffer (42155)
• France
11 Sep 18
@marguicha Yes, it needs to be taught to not fall on another Pinochet in the future. This guy was a shame for me because of his French name, we never had a dictator in France, and we welcomed a lot of Chilean political refugees after this coup.
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@koopharper (7599)
• Canada
11 Sep 18
A somber day for a lot of the world. Hope you have a peaceful day.
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@marguicha (230365)
• Chile
11 Sep 18
What happened in Chile in 1973 changed my life completely, as it changed the lives of many Chilean people.
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