Chile

CHILE

How would you do a coup in America or California?

Can you really pull off a coup d'etat these days? http://theconversation.com/can-you-really-pull-off-a-coup-detat-these-days-62600

Video: CNN Cold War: Chile (11:35) http://youtu.be/Q-xyoI5bU-g

Video: Allende and Pinochet in Chile (Khan Academy) This is excellent http://youtu.be/Um92GZLCQ_Q

Chile history https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Chile

Chile war of independence https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chilean_War_of_Independence

Map: Chile []

CIA World Factbook https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/ci.html

Country study: Chile (ADST) http://adst.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Chile.pdf

20 Things to do in Santiago, Chile, Travel Guide https://youtu.be/9jPvRjBJMnQ

Valparaiso Travel Guide - Exploring Chile's Cultural Capital [Viña del Mar is close by] Punta del Este is in Uruguay https://youtu.be/wcyptfGDg_s

timeline

September 1964 Chile: Eduardo Frei, supported by US, defeats Salvador Allende, in the Presidential election

The price of power Nixon, Kissinger, Frei government in Chile https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1982/12/the-price-of-power/376309/

September 1970 Chile: Salvador Allende wins a plurality of votes for President

15 September 1970 Chile: US starts Project FUBELT to block Allende from Presidency

22 October 1970 Chile: General Rene Schneider assassinated by Chilean military

24 October 1970 Chile: Chilean legislature ratifies election results>>Allende is installed as President

9 November 1970 Chile: US policy paper NSDM 93>>US hostility to Allende

Allende is President from 1970-1973

March 1973 Chile: Allende's Unidad Popular political party gains legislative seats

August 1973 Chile: Chilean truckers strike.

11 September 1973 Chile: Chilean military (led by Augusto Pinochet) overthrows Allende, who commits suicide. http://www.findingdulcinea.com/news/on-this-day/September-October-08/On-this-Day--Pinochet-Seizes-Power-in-Chile.html

24 September 1973 Chile: US grants diplomatic recognition to Pinochet government. Pinochet will rule Chile for the next 17 years

September 1974 Chile: Chilean General Carlos Prats and wife are assassinated in Argentina by Chilean agents

November 1975 Chile: Operation Condor (a form of state-sponsored international terrorism). Military dictators in Southern Cone countries will hunt down political leftists wherever they are in exile.

June 1976 Chile: Kissinger meets in Santiago with Pinochet assuring him of US backing. Kissinger delivers a speech defending human rights.

September 1976 Chile: Orlando Letelier, former Chilean Ambassador to US, is assassinated in Washington, D.C. by Chilean agents.

Salvador Allende

Marxist Ties to Cuba Presidential candidate US tries to prevent his election Fear that Chile would become a second Cuba CIA activities Nixon and Kissinger attitudes

Salvador Allende https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvador_Allende

Presidency of Salvador Allende (1970-1973) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidency_of_Salvador_Allende

Cuba maneuverings Fidel Castro's state visit to Chile during Allende's time in office (1971) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fidel_Castro%27s_state_visit_to_Chile

United States intervention in Chile https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_intervention_in_Chile

Project FUBELT (Track II) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_FUBELT

The Allende Years and the Pinochet Coup, 1969–1973 (US State Department) https://history.state.gov/milestones/1969-1976/allende

Put Castro visit here

Chile Documentation Project http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/chile/

Pinochet: A Declassified Documentary Obit put below under Military Government http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB212/index.htm

The North-South Dialogue and Economic Diplomacy (US State Department) https://history.state.gov/milestones/1977-1980/north-south-dialogue

I.T.T. Is Accused of Having Tried to Influence U.S. Policies in Latin America http://www.nytimes.com/1972/03/23/archives/i-t-t-is-accused-of-having-tried-to-influence-us-policies-in-latin.html

Augusto Pinochet https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augusto_Pinochet

1973 Chilean coup d'état https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_Chilean_coup_d%27état

Military dictatorship of Chile (1973-1990) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_dictatorship_of_Chile_(1973–90)

Peter Kornbluh The U.S. and the Overthrow of the Chilean Government: A Declassified Dossier (2003) http://youtu.be/jCNxYVCMzoM

Put above use as one of the required readings Chile's Coup Against Salvador Allende and the Truth Behind "Missing" (Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training) http://adst.org/2013/09/chiles-coup-against-salvador-allende-and-the-truth-behind-missing/

Caravan of Death (Chile) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caravan_of_Death

Operation Condor https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Condor

Letelier assassination

Reconciliation

Freedom songs: Chile’s sounds of resistance ring out again https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/dec/04/chile-pinochet-music-song-political-prisoners

Daughters of Chile's bloody past to clash over their country's future in Presidential election https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/06/chile-elections-michelle-bachelet-evelyn-matthei