Context: on September 11 1973, the democratically elected Chilean president Salvador Allende was overthrown by Pinochet.
With the CIAs help
For once, no, actually. The CIA tried to overthrow him a few years earlier and failed. Pinochet’s coup caught the CIA by surprise, as Pinochet had… very effectively given the impression of being ‘nonpolitical’ and loyal to the government, to the point where Allende himself was shocked to hear of his involvement.
I would be curious on your sources…mine are Naomi Klein’s Shock Doctrine… Which I read years ago and maybe I’m blurring something but a quick Google search took me to the George Washington University website with this on it…https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/chile/2024-09-09/cia-chile-scandal-50
There the CIA is falsely denying spending money to attempt to destabilize Allende’s administration. They absolutely tried. But as I noted
The CIA tried to overthrow him a few years earlier and failed.
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According to wikipedia, Chile uses day month year
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_date_formats_by_country
Like everyone who uses european calendar system except americans? Who would have guessed!
ISO or fuck off tbh.
Yeah, Europeans trying to dunk on Americans for their date formatting is pretty funny when they’re both absolute shit compared to ISO
Shittiness is relative, not absolute. The American system is shitty compared to the European one, and the latter is shitty compared to ISO.
It really is no less shitty, you’re just used to it
Eh, not everyone. The Japanese go year-month-day.
So in everyday life they would say month-day?
Yeah.
Interesting, so america and their colony. 🙃
It’s helicopter time
what happened on the 9th of november?
In Germany, everything
What could you even do on 9/11? Get up early to watch it all happen again? Better come on 8/11
If you haven’t read The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende, put it on your list. Please and thank you.
