When Remembering Becomes a Political Act
On the morning of September 11, 1973, the residents of Valparaiso, a coastal city in Chile, awoke to find themselves under military control. Commander Augusto Pinochet, after months of public aggression, had finally launched his coup d’état against Salvador Allende’s socialist, democratically elected government. By midday his army had reached Santiago and surrounded the presidential palace. By evening they had bombed it, taken over the country, and begun the draconian killings and imprisonments—torturing... Читать дальше...