The Awful Story of South America's Most Evil Dictator
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- Опубліковано 10 чер 2024
- This is the story of state terror in Argentina in the ‘70s and ‘80s: what is traditionally called the “Dirty War.” It’s the story of how a military regime, led mainly by a dictator named Jorge Videla, tortured and killed tens of thousands of people while implementing neoliberal economic “reforms.” But it’s also the story of how they were helped along in that process by people like Henry Kissinger and Elliot Abrams - and how those accomplices were never punished. Pablo Pryluka, PhD student in Latin American history at Princeton University, explains.
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0:00 Argentina's coup
2:25 State terror
6:11 Economic "reform"
7:52 American support
10:52 The regime falls
13:15 Credits
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Please cover the Suharto regime, people need to know more about what happened in my country... Ferdinand Marcos needs to be covered as well, someone has to raise attention towards what happened in our homelands. Love from ASEAN. 🙏🇮🇩
65-66, Never Forget.
Imperialism has nothing to do with the dictatorship.
Same as indonesian under era soeharto
LEFT WING COMMUNIST ARE REMOVED
VERY GOOD YOU ARE NOT WELCOME
GO TO CHINA
LOOK AT WHAT LEFT WING NUTS HAVE DONE WOW YOUR NUTS
@@lushionxazaver323 if only you knew
USA be like: "A regime is a success if we say it's a success."
Capitalism at its best
Success is measured by how well it contains threats to the status quo at home.
The USA had hired former fascists from Italy, Germany or other parts of Europe. Like the clip says. Totally not surprising that Kissinger gave them the green light because, he always did that everywhere. The man should be shunned and hated by everyone but, the bourgeoisie of the USA loves him and will, I bet give him a statue upon his death!
"A regime is a success if we, the US, profit by its existence."
A regime is a success only if it fails the majority of its people
As a Chilean, this story is both familiar and horrifying in a different way.
In our case, extreme inequality and poverty lead to the election of President Salvador Allende, a socialist and the first Marxist to ever be democratically elected. Allende’s government immediately set out to redistribute wealth, reform healthcare (his reforms as both President and his prior reforms as health minister were so effective that despite all that happened after, his reforms are the reason 91% of Chileans are fully vaccinated against COVID), nationalize our main natural resource (copper), reform education, and tried to unify the communist activists and party with his party, the socialist party, and center-left parties like the Democracia Cristiana (DC)(Cristian Democracy).
In response, the US sent in the CIA to coordinate right-wing resistance and propaganda (including right-wing newspaper “El Mercurio”) and support the Chilean armed forces. They helped the nascent fascist activist group Patria y Libertad grow to prominence so that they could act as brown shirts, helped fund trucker strikes to internally sabotage the economy, externally blockaded the country financially, worked to make the DC hostile to Allende, helped get Allende’s loyalist head of the army assassinated, and caused a fake shortage of goods so that breadlines and inflation would happen, among other things. Eventually, Allende declared he’d do a public referendum to decide if he should stay or if new elections should happen. Initially, he wanted to do (or announce? Can't remember) this referendum on the 11th of September, 1973, however his new head of armed forces, General Augusto Pinochet, convinced Allende to move it forward a few days.
The reason became clear on the 11th of September, 1973: the Chilean navy blockaded and invaded our main port city of Valparaiso, and the Chilean army besieged the government building, La Moneda, while two Chilean airforce bombers bombarded La Moneda. Allende, refusing to surrender, committed suicide after one last public broadcast, and then it was revealed that Augusto Pinochet was a leading member of the cue, becoming Chile’s dictator.
This is where it becomes familiar to Argentina: people were kidnapped, tortured, raped, and killed in an attempt to “purge communism” while the dictatorship implemented neoliberal policies by force, and Pinochet personally enriched himself through shady means.
This came to an end with a referendum on 1988 and subsequent democratic elections in 1989. Pinochet and many others would not be prosecuted, and he would die in his home, surrounded by family, of old age in 2006. The Constitution written during the dictatorship is still ongoing today (although we recently elected to change it, and a new one is in process of being written). This Sunday, we will see if we can finally unshackle from the legacy of Pinochet and the CIA by either electing a social democrat Gabriel Boric, or a Pinochet supporter... Wish us luck...
Edit: El Mercurio and the DC are still around and very influential in Chile. As for the artificial shortages, they were relieved the day of the 9/11 cue because soldiers “found” lots of unsold produce tucked away in storage rooms.
Edit 2: the channel 3 Arrows talks about the Brazilian dictatorship, if you’re interested in seeing how Operation: Condor affected the rest of South America. (ua-cam.com/video/TrUXs-5Ins4/v-deo.html)
Edit 3: Gabriel Boric has won a crushing victory against the Pinochet supporting candidate.
Thank you so much for your thoughtful comment.
No puedo creer que después de mas de 30 años aún no hayan podido deshacer las consecuencias de ese periodo. Realmente me sorprende lo mucho que impactó eso a Chile. Gracias por la historia, no la sabía toda completa. Espero puedan deshacer el daño que esa dictadura les dejó.
America will be getting theirs soon. They have destroyed dozens of nations
The legacy of Pinochet made Chile one of the best countries of Latin America for good or bad, even if Boric wins, only moderate reforms will happen.
My high school spanish language teacher was "immigrant" due to Chile strife. Americas crimes will always be remembered as no one will forget the trauma of cruel capitalist corporate corruption and crimes against nature.
Henry Kissinger; a perfect example of how to live without a heart for decades!
@Kalib M.P. well his actions over thare made china what it is today, was a way to win the cold war. i agree with your point thought, but i see why Xi said what he said
One of the worst humans to walk the planet. He encouraged so many coups and military invasions in the 1970s
He is pretty much a Hitler whom got what he wanted, went to do as much harm if not more, but got away, history will be his judge and he will be remembered as he deserves, with Leopold, Mussolini, Hitler, Hirohito as one of the worst humans to ever stepped on earth, even Nixon was scared of him.
@@namename-qb5xe "was a way to win the cold war"
Everything Kissinger touched he destroyed. If Kissinger was worth a shit how come mighty America couldn't defeat undeveloped Vietnam?
A model "centrist" in the American tradition. Kissinger was there for so many big moments in history, but makes so few appearances in history books.
My mother's family escaped this dictatorship. They weren't directly persecuted, but I feel that was more a matter of them getting lucky and reading the writing on the wall then anything else.
The writing is on the wall in the US too.
wow, incredible.
Funny how the US press talks about the “Castro regime” of Cuba and the “Chavez regime” of Venezuela but we never learn about all the dictatorships the US supported around the world.
@@dangelo1369 Well what do you think they plan to replace those "regimes" with?
@@dangelo1369 Funny they never call it a regime at home lmao
“Two centuries ago, a former European colony decided to catch up with Europe. It succeeded so well that the United States of America became a monster, in which the taints, the sickness and the inhumanity of Europe have grown to appalling dimensions”
― Frantz Fanon
"post-colonial studies, critical theory and Marxism"
@Imma Right Fanon? One of the most influential writers on post-colonialism and political science? Yeah sure. Read a book sometime.
Those words certainly have aged well. The colony became the coloniser.
@Smoke Meth Read Mao You’re right, the settlers were the colonists.
Yes because asia,africa and south America never had any violence and mad people at ALL before america's independence
The next time someone tries to tell me America is a sort of "peacekeeper" on the world stage, I'm sending them this.
You should already have known this.
Two other things dubbed "Peacemaker/keeper" by the Muricans:
Colt 1873 single action revolver
LGM-118 ICBM
I agree. America was never about peace. America itself is a stolen land to begin with.
You don't have to wait, you can send it to Elon Musk right now
This is cold War stuff, it is completely meaningless.
As bad as the U.S. is on these things, do you really think the Russians or Chinese give any more of a shit about their pawns in the proxy war? I'm sorry there have to be pawns and proxy wars, but there are, and the U.S. remains the least bad option of all that are on the table.
That's really what it is. While we still suck, we suck the _least._ For now.
I'm from Argentina and this is spot on. The military killed and exiled thousands while destroying the economy, the external debt skyrocketed. Operation Condor devastated the region and we haven't been able recover yet, we are still colonies. The soldiers are gone but we are subjugated via the market.
Exact same in Brazil, even their modus operandi was the same. And now we have a dipshit in the president seat that wants to go back to it.
It seems their ideology was just "Power and destruction!"
Operation Condor makes me so sad, we had a promising future, but everything was destroyed just because the US government "feared" that we could've "ended up like Cuba". It's kinda bizarre how they prevented a probable dictatorship with an actual dictatorship.
Imagine growing up in a military family only to discover how your parents REALLY adopted you 😲
The greatest argument against us living in a just universe is that Henry Kissinger is still alive.
Reminds of the scene from Brassed Off: as Mr. Chuckles, about God] “What's He doing? He can take John Lennon. He can take those three young lads down at Ainsley Pit. He's even thinking of taking my old man. And Margaret bloody Thatcher lives! What's He sodding playing at, eh?”
So are most of the collaborators here, alive, unpunished, and enriched.
There are 2 options in my opinion: either god really hates us or he wants us to be pissed to work extra hard
@@giovannisampino5080 It is free will, people choose to lick the boots of whom steps on them, while blaming their fellows for the crushing.
@@giovannisampino5080 A third option: there is no god.
The fact that The Norwegian Nobel Committee in 1973 gave the Nobel Price for Peace to Kissinger is paradoxical
...is criminal.
A small correction: The Peace prize is given by the Norwegian Nobel committee, which is appointed by the Norwegian parliament.
many of the Nobel peace prize winners were complete assholes who supported US geopolitical domination
@@livendus You're right, i forgot about this detail. I'm editing the comment
"Fun" fact: the 1973 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded jointly to Kissinger and Vietnamese leader Le Duc Tho. LDT refused to accept it.
I'm really glad to see an American channel (and even better, with an Argentinian presentator!) annalyse Argentina's dictatorship and the role played by the US. however, I think that something needs to be stressed more enfatically in your otherwise excellent video: this dictatorship, much like in the rest of the continent's case, was orchestrated purposefully to eliminate the very growing radical movement of workers and students (not necessarely guerrilla fighters, though many were involved with the armed organizations). It was no accident. It was a systematic, planned operation to recreate the class domination of the bourgeoisie, and impose neoliberal policies to a population that wouldn' have accepted them without repression. Thanks and congrats for the video, from Buenos Aires!
Nos pasó a todos, a chilenos, mexicano, guatemaltecos, hondureños, bolivianos, brasileños y peruanos, siempre la mano de la CIA con hambre de oro
Well said sir
@@ericsuarez834 Los Dominicanos tambien
Yes that point could be made more clearly + directly connected to the entire imperialist project overall
I totally agree. Also most of the guerrillas were already defeated by the time the coup happened.
As a Filipino, this hits way too close to home. This was even relatively around the same time we were under our own dictatorial regime. This was an international coordinated effort by the US.
It was indeed, but I didn't know about the filipino case, can you recommend me a video on your case?
@@JuanManuel-ii1ov Here are two videos that are in the English language. I struggled finding some for you a bit because most of them are in Tagalog haha. Be careful though, a lot of videos out there are also sponsored by the Philippine rightwing. ua-cam.com/video/TdQN6VkKMGE/v-deo.html
ua-cam.com/video/-p0FSHa3EBc/v-deo.html
@@kailawkamo1568 Thanks! I also know spanish but as far as I know It didn't stick that much en las Filipinas.
@@JuanManuel-ii1ov I'm glad it didn't. When you get colonized for 333 years, you somehow get tired of getting called "indio" or "moro" lol
@@JuanManuel-ii1ov also in the region the mass killings the us supported in Indonesia were some of the most brutal, they killed upwards of a million people, I recommend "the act of killing: documentary
Whenever I hear actual history from perspectives outside the US, I realize just how close this country is to fascism. We have a veneer of "freedom" and "democracy" that's dictated by two conservative capitalist parties, which actually operate as one party when it comes to policies that matter, including foreign policy. It's horrible.
Exactly! In my view, It's just a matter of time before corporate conglomerates get so annoyed by a political system with politicians to represent disjointed corporate interest without a unified agenda, that they'll just take it over directly. Mussolini defined fascism thusly: A merger of State and Corporate Power, where effectively the Corporations hold ultimate power in society and make unified plans to serve their agenda, against the interest of the people.
Trump slid the last few pieces into place. The scale of the mass delusion happening here is terrifying.
@@NinjaThatLongboards Not unlike... Nazi Germany or Fascist Italy or Franco's Spain. They'll always find their supporters among the biases of people with highly religious, hyper-nationalistic and/or ethno-supremacist sentiment, or making the people fearful by scapegoating specific demographics, other than the interest of capital. That's exactly how corporations directly promoted the fascist movements in Italy and Germany to begin with, not with bold statements from corporations of 'wanting' to develop a fascist state to more effectively repress the people, but all under the table, laden with extensive lies, misinformation, deceit and manipulation of mass psychology. These same corporations will literally have politicians giving lip service to some veneer of human rights and decency, and even claiming to be against fascism, while directly funding and/or promoting fascist groups in one way or another.
@@ufodeath They’re already doing this in the US.
@@ufodeath Although I agree with you, sadly that Mussolini quote isn't true. I heard it awhile ago and thought it would be an excellent warning but found it wasn't true. It just comes from a misunderstanding of Corporatism. It sounds similar but is different from corporatocracy or corporate capitalism. Corporatism was a response to classical liberalism and Marxism and is the foundation for Mussolini's fascism. To be completely honest, understanding the economic side of fascism, which is corporatism, is kind of difficult, at least for me. Here is a line from its Wikipedia article, "The hypothesis that society will reach a peak of harmonious functioning when each of its divisions efficiently performs its designated function, such as a body's organs individually contributing its general health and functionality, lies at the center of corporatist theory." It seeks to model society off of that of a human body, hence the name derived from corpus, or body in Latin. But in practice it means strict totalitarian control over the entire economy in a strictly regimented fashion. It sounds similar to a syndicalism type of system, but focused on the entirety of the economy and betrays socialist values of class conflict by promoting "class harmony," meaning rather than break down class boundaries, stay put, accept your place in society and cooperate.
Anyway the quote is still similar to this, because Fascism seeks to merge state and economic power, but there is still an important distinction between that and what we are headed for which is corporatocracy. The state wouldn't absorb industry and take hold over the corporations power, but rather corporations will gain more and more control over the government and the rich control everything not out of a desire for complete economic cohesion, but purely a desire for profit. And in which case, you can argue we've already been there and we already live in a corporatocratic system.
Regardless our actual downfall to fascism will be brought on by social conservatives and the ever-increasing far-right movements in America.
I found out about this whole thing because when I was in high school I was interested in studying forensic anthropology and my dad told me Argentina was one of the leading countries in that field, and when I asked why he just said "cause they have a ton of mass graves and they need scientists to identify the remains".
holy shit lmao
Same with Kampuchea.
The military junta is hands down the worst government in Argentine history. I mean they implemented devastating economic policies whilst literally exterminating a whole generation of not only activists and left-wing politicians, but also scientists, artists and intelectuals. Like the video says at the end, it is a wound that hurts to this day. Muy buen video y saludos desde Buenos Aires!
The fact that they were worse than Perón, who openly praised fascism, really says something.
@@theguystealingyourinternet3712 the pro- US strain of fascism is particularly virulent, and in latin america has always been the most brutal
Plus following the plans made up by Perón, never forget that
@@chriss780 Its because with neoliberalist fascism there is no carrot for anyone outside the ruling elite, only a giant stick.
@@marshallsweatherhiking1820
Exactly. It's nothing but ruthless supression of whoever the claimed enemy is, a total rejection of human rights, and a love of violence. It's fascism, baby. As long as you don't have a conscience and have a lust for sadism, it's a perfect system.
I am Argentinean, and it's always heartbreaking this part of our story, and that till this day, there are a big size of the population is defending such heinous acts, calling for the comeback of the military or the comeback of the green falcons, the car that was used by the Argentine secret service to kidnap dissidents, it's really sad thinking that such crimes against humanity, now a days are just a campaign talking point.
Sad, we have the same lovers of fascism running our government.
I would be willing to bet that they are similar in popularity to our openly fascist republican party. In 2020 at their most numerous ever, the republicans were less than 1/3 of the country, and out of that only 2/3 want the openly fascist Bunker Baby as president still. That's about 1/5 of the country, and 3/4 of them are middle-aged and the elderly. When republikkklans start talking about a civil war, I ask them to imagine a bunch of mostly old folks attempting to wage a war against their fellow Americans where they are outnumbered at least 4 to 1. lols
@@aylbdrmadison1051 please do not compare the republican party to argentina's dictatorship. It dilutes the meaning of the word fascist.
That's what happens when the left denies the crimes of the guerrillas and try to frame every political opponent as someone who supports the dictatorship, allow humanitarian groups to steal money and more. People get tired of it.
@@gordygor666 no it doesn't, the entire US government funded Argentina's dictatorship meaning they are a part of it, dems too.
So when Mom's family immigrated from Italy after WW II, 2 relatives went to Argentina because they also have a huge Italian immigrant population. During the Dirty War they sent their kids here to the US. When my mother met her Argentinian cousins she described them having some kind of PTSD. I told her, welcome to American foreign policy Straight Outta Fort Benning.
Can you please elaborate on your Fort Benning reference? What is it's connection to US foreign policy?
@@sisyphusvasilias3943 That's where the Escuela de las Américas (School of the Americas) is located, although back then it was in Panama I think, the School is now called the WHINSEC and it's being heavily propagandized, they essentially teach terrorism and torture methods there - the school syllabus was created by veterans of the Boer Wars (the ones who invented concentration camps), veterans of the Algerian war, and Israelis. Those tactics were enhanced in Vietnam and were thaught to military personnel all over the continent, especially the countries involved in the Condor Operation (Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil), later on some of those methods were implemented in the US against communist and the BPP (COINTELPRO), and those tactics evolved and were exported to Iraq, Afganistan, Syria, and the rest of latinoamerica. There have been a bunch of dictators from Central America who were students of that program, a lot of military generals of totalitarian governments, and the extremely brutal narcos that emerged in Mexico after 2006(Los Zetas) were also alumni of that school. Gruesome stuff.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Hemisphere_Institute_for_Security_Cooperation#Graduates_of_the_School_of_the_Americas
@@sisyphusvasilias3943Glad to, Fort Benning, GA is where the School of the Americas is located. The name has changed, but the program is the same. That was NOT a slight on the Army.
@@rubym357 i mean it is, and it should be, this is who the us army is training
if you literally have a school were you teach people torture methods and state terrorism, by what definition are you good?
@@chriss780 "this is who the us army is training if you literally have a school were you teach people torture methods and state terrorism, by what definition are you good?"
The School of Americas was created by right-wing politicians not by the Army. It isn't the Army's fault, it is required by law to follow orders from civilian leadership.
You should do a video on the Pinochet regime in Chile, the amount of people who think that monster was a hero is sickening
Lets not forget that Pinochet got helped by the USA because a marxist-lenist party got elected in a democracy that the fascists destroyed.
Please, yes, do a video on the Chilean coup and the hows and whys behind it.
specially now that we have a presidential candidate who openly praises Pinochet's dictatorship
A pinochet revisionist won the presidential primaries in Chile last month (and the general election is in 2 days)
This weekend KKKast is trying to bring that back
My dad went through this in Argentina after fleeing Bordaberri's dictatorship in Uruguay. He lost so many friends to the 'death flights' and was in captivity for 2 years. I'm very grateful that he survived and never gave up. Thanks for making this video!
There’s no money for social growth and development but there’s plenty for mass torture and genocide. Awful history that has to be learned. Thank you for sharing
I bet their conservatives also don't want their country's history taught to their schoolchildren.
Great video! my great grandfather was disappeared and murdered in this dictatorship, the officers that took part in it are old and in jail, however they still won't say where the human rests are, so my family can't even properly bury him
Ni olvido ni perdón!
Que feo cami, les deseo lo mejor
America: "Muh, how can the Russians support Assad?!"
Also America:
I hate Trump but laughed when people stated he cozied up dictators. Read real American history for the ignorant.
Assad is like 15x less brutal.
Ofc Assad must go for a proletariat Syria but still.
@@h3nder Chemical weapons on your own people is still pretty bad.
@@JamEngulfer That was made up as a pretence to go in fighting...There were 4 reports by reputable scientists, but they were fudged. It would be no surprise to anyone who orchestrated the fudging.
@@JamEngulfer Considering how suspicious it was that the US-backed forces there refused russian offers to send specialists to assess the situation and assist the injured and wounded I do think it was a false flag operation.
And I thought Pinochet was the worst dictator supported by the US in Latin America. Never knew about an Argentinian one. And one of the men that worked with Pinochet works now with Bolsonaro in Brazil . Some people think all the atrocities and injustice we learned in history are things of the past but it is still going on
Latin America had a painful history of military dictators starting in the late 50's and only ending in the mid 80's or in some cases in the 90's, and it went from Guatemala to Argentina and Brazil, most countries in the region had at some point a right wing military dictatorship supported by the US, the only exception here (and bareley, at that) is Mexico who instead of having a single dictator from a military branch like Pinochet and Videla, had a bunch of faces giving it the appearance of a "Democracy" but in all of those cases all of the presidents belong to the same political party (and there were several murders and kidnappings sanctioned by the goverment there too). Really, the history of Latin America is a tragic one.
The CIA through sub-organizations are doing coups around the world to this day. They coup'ed Ukraine in 2014 and we see the after-effects of this today in the West pushing for a direct conflict with Russia through their puppet...
Pinochet is not the worst by far Afredo Strossner raped girls in Paraguay.
@@Elidext The CIA had nothing to do with Ukraine in 2014. It was a popular uprising by the people against a very unpopular pro Russian president who had snipers on the roofs shooting down demonstrators in the protests. It was the Russians that pushed this lie that the CIA was behind the protests. A few months layer, Russia invaded Ukraine.
@@ToothbrushMan it was a textbook case of CIA backed colour revolution.
I just finished a Latin American Politics class this semester. Thankfully, I’m a bit older and have done a lot of reading on my own, and would constantly challenge my professor (who was a liberal) for the bs he would say. This part in Argentinian history was completely glossed over in class. Mainly the US’s involvement. My professor was also sus about Lula (which should’ve been a red flag).
Thank you guys for your work. Keep it up! 🙏🙏🙏
Next time you see that mf ask him what he thinks about Abuelas of Plaza de Mayo (the grandmothers of the babies this video speaks of, whom were taken from their mothers and secretly gave in adoption to families that may have never told them - to this day - about their true identity) You'll make him shit his pants, hope you go for it
What do you mean by "sus about Lula" the Brazilian President?
Wait. Wouldn't a liberal be against US involvement in usurping foreign governments?
@@tapiwakay Liberals are not leftists, liberals are capitalists who pretend to care about human rights when there is money to be made off the outrage. Ie liberals only pay lip service to equality when its a direct benefit to them.
Your prof. may be a liberal, but Regan and Kissinger were not; can you explain this? Why would these champions of conservatism not seek to stamp out the "liberal" Argentine regime, but blatantly support and champion it?
This is so important, and it their are practically no avenues through which it is taught about in the US. This needs to be shared widely.
Hi, Anthony. Check out Naomi Klein's book, Shock Doctrine. Her meticulous research pulls the curtain back on these and other atrocities, funded and driven by the US, all over South America and around the world.
Merry Christmas.
Despite America's ideals of "Freedom" it believes in Imperialism more then other ideologies.
Hitler's quest for global domination was completed with US military base # 274...and USA just kept building them.
"Germany lost the second world war....Fascism Won." -Carlin
The “American “ construction of freedom is brain wash.
Says the pinkos
Wherever the US goes people either lose freedom or they lose sovereignty.
The only thing worse than being an American Citizen with less rights than corporations is not being an american and being subject to american foreign policy.
Well said
some tweet phrased it "if you hate america why don't you leave?"
"because I don't want to be victimized by its foreign policy"
Não podemos esquecer nossa história latinoamericana. Que lutemos para que este fascismo militar NÃO RETORNE ao nosso continente!
Seria legal ver um vídeo sobre a ditadura militar nesse canal! Na gringa, não é muito bem conhecido esse tempo horrível da história brasileira.
They weren't fascist.
@@lubu2960 shut up
@@lubu2960 they absolutely were, chinese bot.
Gtfoh
@@Gio-ym4uj no, they weren't, learn what fascism is
This is gut wrenching, truly. Sometimes I wish I could go numb to this, but it's better to feel disgust than nothing.
My family were leftists in Argentina, my parent's lived in constant fear as children the family would be disappeared in the early years of the dictatorship. They fled soon after and never returned, thankfully none of them were killed by the military.
At this point Reagan may as well be a synonym for wrong. The best advice I can give for how to live your life is if you think Ronald Reagan might have done it, do whatever the opposite of it is.
I really want to know, for what I’ve investigated Reagan (maybe only after reagan) was quite literally the worst president in the states during the 20th century. He did not care for anyone abroad and tbh he didn’t even care about fellow Americans, how can he be so beloved there?
@@evanytoscano1532 Propaganda.
I honestly cannot fathom how still to this day historians who rank U.S. Presidents consistently rank that man as one of our top ten leaders. I've seen Reagan as high as number five in some rankings. All of the research I've done on the man, including watching videos such as the one, only have led me to make the conclusion that he was truly awful.
When he died, the press seemed to forget everything he did to destroy both the us and the rest of the world, even today, although now after covid, the country say just how 'essential' they were compared to the rich exploiting them.
@@joeldavis5815 This man is responsible for most of Americas modern day problems, and he wasn't even responsible for the fall of the USSR. Yet, when I attempt to tell people about this, they pass me off as some kind of ungrateful communist who murdered half of the population of America and committed several war crimes in Afghanistan and Vietnam.
It never ceases to amaze me how sickening it is what my country has done around the world with tax dollars, while preaching free markets.
That is why we need the citizens of the USA to do something themselves, anything we do we get sanction, coup, invaded. Everyone would win, If my country can grant free healthcare and quality free college education imagine what the USA could do if It used It's money there instead of messing with other countries.
I moved to the US at a young age from Argentina, everything my parents told me about their time living under the dictatorship lines up with this
As someone who's an amateur ethnologist & linguist I've traveled (very carefully & with great caution) to several countries that are/were under more or less authoritarian regimes (e.g., I've been to Russia & the PRC, but I've avoided North Korea). However, I'd NEVER consider moving to any of these countries. I assume that you were a minor when you moved to the US. Do you mind my asking how you decided to stay in the US after hearing about all of the sins, transgressions & misdeeds of the US government? Thanks, in advance!
@@rogerforsberg3910 because what fucking choice do they have? they weren't privileged first worlders who can relocate on whim, they were fleeing for there lives
in a sick twist of irony that they found safety by coming to a place the us didn't think to look for them
@@chriss780 "because what fucking choice do they have?" To whom are you referring when you write, "they?" Mr Migi's parents? And, as for choices there are many Spanish speaking countries -- including Spain -- that have taken South American political refugees. Spain & other Spanish-speaking countries are often chosen in order to reduce the linguistic difficulties in the transition.
However, you have noted one aspect of the situation that has occurred in many Latin American countries over the course of time: very many, if not all, of the political refugees from Cuba, Nicaragua, Venezuela, Argentina & Chile have immigrated to the US.
"they weren't privileged first worlders who can relocate on whim, ..."
What country do you live in, Mr A? I live in the US and I don't know scores of people who can "relocate on a whim" -- and I very likely know many more people than you.
"...they were fleeing for there lives in a sick twist of irony that they found safety by coming to a place the us didn't think to look for them"
Is you guessing, or is this supposition on your part, or some sort of surmise? Do you actually know Mr Migi's parents -- & thus feel capable of answering for them?
@@rogerforsberg3910
it was just an insensitive question
@@chriss780 I'm sorry that you thought it was an insensitive question, Mr S; and I'm doubly sorry if Mr Migi thought that it was an insensitive question.
That's why I stated it as, "DO YOU MIND MY ASKING how you decided to stay in the US after hearing about all of the sins, transgressions & misdeeds of the US government?", and followed it up with, "THANKS, IN ADVANCE!"
In the US -- where I live -- when one is legitimately curious one asks questions -- rather than making assumptions on the basis of no knowledge whatsoever. How is that done where you live?
Glad someone’s finally covering this
Have you ever heard of BadEmpanada? He did like a few hour long videos on this topic
@@poopoo-dk4hu I’m one of the top commenters on his second channel
@@FemaleHachi I did not know that, I too frequent his second channel as well! I'll be on the lookout
Since you touched on "Operation Condor" it would be greatly appreciated if you could do a video on Augusto Pinochet, Milton Friedman, and the Chicago Boys.
This is why when the US says it’s supports democracy abroad when its hilarious it’s only goal abroad has only ever been power and money as an American everyone needs to learn the history to hold are politicians a accountable for the horrors they do around the globe especially the pain it’s caused in South America
"Democracy is the right to vote for whoever we tell you" -US foreign policy in a nutshell
@@thomasakagi7545
when they say "freedom" just substitued "capitalism"
and when they say "national security" just sub "us corporate interests" and there words make a lot more sense.
as Lenin said "freedom under capitalism is the same as in ancient Rome and Greece, freedom for the slave owners"
@@thomasakagi7545 better than unable to vote
Holy shit, I did not know about the details around this time in Argentinian history. It's so absolutely disgusting and shameful, I'm not really surprised that the US had a role in it all too.
Hi, Mark. For more information, check out Naomi Klein's book Shock Doctrine for more on this and other US outrages. Merry Christmas.
But this guy avoided the fact those "leftits" are in power now and they are the same or even worse than the military government. They were and are terrorists. Don't stay with just this side of the history.
Being from Argentina and a long time subscriber of this channel, while I appreciate all of your videos, this really is a special one and hits close to home. Thanks a lot for your work and content!
Here in Brazil none of the generals, none of the torturers, none of the crimminals who tortured, persecuted, and killed tens of thousents of people were punished. They all got away with It and still live, or died rich with the money they stole from us durring the government. USA supported It all, and still supports coups. We in Latin America suffer every day the results of the brutality of these regimes, both economically and phisically, until this day. The scars still fresh. We just hope USA stops trying to make this happen again every time any leftist is ellectec. Bolsonaro is the result of another disasteous attempt of USA trying to "liberalize" our politics again. And he is following the same fascist steps, praizing that same generals and murderers of 1964, and has the potential to become another brutal dictator.
Bolsonaro was democratically elected by 55% of Brazilian people. It’s completely different from military coups
You think this is bad? Read about what the US sponsored in Indonesia in 1965 and 1966. "The Jakarta Method" would be a good starting point.
Glad to see stories like this being told. It's important to know about these things if we're to have any chance of preventing similar things in the future.
Hi, Click. If you haven't already, check out Naomi Klein's book, Shock Doctrine, wherein she goes into painstaking detail to tell the Argentine story. Merry Christmas
Already a new video? You're really productive, ain't you? That's really nice!
We're getting better! We've spent the last few months building out our production operation so we can publish a lot more. Really excited for 2022!
@@TheGravelInstitute Thats great, your "brazilian socialist movement" video really showed people what socialism is cappable of and will help him get to office again in 2022!
Love from Brazil
@@henriqueccb5581 Good luck for the elections, finally Lula can continue what he started
It sounds like the people in charge there have their heads up their asses.
Los desaparecidos... I lived in BA about 10 years ago, and people throughout the area from Avellaneda to La Plata were still very scarred and living in fear from this period.
I'm starting to get PragerU ads on all of your videos, it's getting scary. I know what it is, I know why, and it's not the first time I've seen it happen, but it makes me nervous. Keep at it, fight them.
The Argentinians can tell you first hand about the type of democracy the US likes spreading.
Not really, look how big the right wing is, people don't learn.
@@JuanManuel-ii1ov I know the right is strong in Argentina, they imported too many fascists from Europe.
But they also terrorized people into compliancy... and people thought those grinned in thoughts were their own thoughts... that’s how coercion works; people are worked until they think it is coherence, but it’s never. Twisted they then become.
It’s working right now as we speak with the rise of the different hues of bio-safety totalitarianism... and people believe thoughts that costed billions to implant, are their own thoughts. They don’t follow the science as much as they are getting summoned by the Hamelin flute into the gaslighting chambers.
Please do a video about Mexico and its history with neoliberalism. There's a whole lot of US involvement there as well. There's a reason why Mexico was called once 'The perfect dictatorship'.
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I second the motion,
Isn't also Singapore called "A functioning dictatorship"? It's like, I don't know, the western hemisphere have a biased way of describing things lol
For any film buffs that might use the reference, "Irreversible" and "Enter the Void" director Gaspar Noe was born in Argentina and exiled during this dictatorship because his father Luis Felipe Noe was a paintor.
The moment I saw the thumbnail, I knew it was about the Last Military Dictatorship. I’ve read extensively into their crimes, the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, and the fall after the Falklands War.
They left out some things but covers the basic facts.
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To note, a fall of intern food market in Argentina, a country specialized in agriculture.
This, display junta governement's incompetence.
But SOCIALISM WRECKS THE ECONOMY kek
Thank you for including subtitles. I'm latino too, but I can barely understand this guys accent.
I feel like there could be a whole channel dedicated to the travesties Kissinger committed.
Keep bringing these amazing videos. I am sure this channel will be as popular as TED-Ed one day. Love your contents.
My cousins came to live with us in 1980 after their mom, my aunt was disappeared. This is so difficult to watch. And look at what we just did to Afghanistan. People are still recovering, still struggling in Argentina. Who's next?
Well, it seems that the US now is in selfdestruction course. Hopefully you guys don't bring the whole planet down with you.
You mean what the US is *still doing* to Afghanistan. The violence hadn't stopped since the American forces fled, the US still continues to commit acts of terrorism on the people of Afghanistan (so-called "drone strikes"), and it is setting up for the deliberate mass murder of hundreds of thousands through sanctions and economic blockade which they KNOW will induce mass starvation. The US is enraged by its military loss in Afghanistan and is now out for blood seeking to collectively punish the entire Afghan people for turning against the US puppet regime and expelling the US occupation. The real bloodbath is coming unless China or Russia step in and offer massive aid circumventing US sanctions.
The US is also using this collective punishment killing men, women and children through sanctions on Iran, Lebanon, Syria, Cuba, Venezuela and more. The US has fought on the same side as the lunatic ISIS extremists in Syria, has murdered the top anti-ISIS Iranian general, and it has stolen an entire Iranian oil tanker. The US continues to help the murderous Saudi regime commit genocide against the people of Yemen. The US is currently backing a fascist regime in Ukraine that was installed through western backed coup and which is waging war on its own people. The US are threatening Russia and China with war, bringing NATO forces closer and closer, and are doing everything they can to destabilize those countries and foment terrorism and civil unrest.
Great video about Argentina's recent history! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Great video, I always look forward to your videos
I am so thankful for this channel and the work you do. Thank you.
Organize the communities, unionize the workers.
I dunno if he's the most evil, there's some stiff competition
*Cough Cough, Pinnochect*
@@ethanpappas2502 Who also got help by the USA
@@pumpkinlord1117 almost every fascist in the last 80 years did
@@ethanpappas2502 rios Mont of Guatemala comes to mind
@@guyincognito7979 Or Battista. It really annoys me how Battista had five times Castros kill count(4,000 vs 20,000) and did every evil thing Castro did worse, yet gets zero negative press(Not trying to minimize or excuse Castros falts)
I believe this just may be your best video yet.
Fantastic work. Thank you.
Outstanding. Simply outstanding.
You guys are starting to deliver some quality stuff!
Most grateful for this video. The brutality of the Argentinian counterparts of the American Proud Boys was beyond belief. A whole generation of courageous leftwing people was slaughtered. Videla died peacefully. So did Reagan. May they burn in hell. Greetings from Europe to my Argentinian brothers.
You guys put out some great content. I'd likely have never learned about this, if not for this video
To learn a whole lot more, check out BadEmpanada's channel.
@@aylbdrmadison1051 That is gold right there.
"jakarta Method" by Vincent Bevins if you want to learn about these mass killings worldwide
Already know it’s gonna be another great video
The US is still doing this today but in the form of economic sanctions (and coups of course too)
You could have ended at today.
Nah, the US still supports coups and fucked up governments. Just check the (disastrous) Arab Spring and of course, the corrupt as shit (though not as bad as the Taliban) government of Afghanistan.
@@nerobernardino88 a UN report showed the us and its allies killed more civilians than the Taliban in the course of the war.
Yup.
Great to see a video from you guys covering my country's horrible last dictatorship. Hopefully one day you cover the 70's military juntas and school of the Americas in all of South America so you can make some justice for our brothers and sisters from other countries
we will! this will be the first of a long series
@@TheGravelInstitute Amazing to hear this
@@TheGravelInstitute Looking forward to it! This is a crucial and painful moment for Latin America.
Thank you for this excellent report.
Excellent. Thank you Pablo!
I appreciate this channel for its unapologetic yet fascinating depths into history, facts, and perspectives we should consider against our modern day issues. That..and the US needs wake the heck up.
Throughout history neoliberalism's harsh austerity methods on the general populous always opens the gates to fascism
Thank you so much for sharing this ❤️
I truly appreciate the perspective in this video love hearing the complete truth of a country I only knew the surface level about. As always I found myself enjoying the content y’all put out.
Author Naomi Klein wrote an excellent dissertation of the Latin American invasion by the Chicago School of Economics - the Chicago Boys, who had absorbed economist Milton Friedman's principles and applied them when they got back home. The book, titled Shock Doctrine, does not stint on facts; it is a clear indictment of the US role in economic and social destabilization all over the world, all for economic profit.
And the US wants to hold China to account for their human rights record...
It's amazing how you can do a "Six Degrees of Ronald Reagan" for every bullshit international policy/military intervention/social problem in the country for the past 40+ years. Except it's not six degrees; it's one. Truly an American Hero.
Its truly straggering how often Reagan comes up as the source of systemic failures in modern society.
@@stratecaster547
my family at my funeral, sobbing
"heaven gained another angel"
me, in hell
"WHERE IS RONALD REAGAN"
Wish he was a alive to see the failure we was, but if heaven exist, then he must be rooting in hell
These videos are excellent and so important. Thank you.
*Very interesting historical analysis, Gravel Institute!*
gracias por este video ♡
…and to this day, the alt-right sees him as a hero.
This is great. Very informative. Please continue!!!
Thank you for making this video!
Y’all are doing gods work 🙏🏻
History like this needs to be taught world wide
Thank You Pablo Pryluka. Hope to hear from you again soon.
Eye-opening thank you.
“There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know” - Harry S. Truman
The CIA had a saying "he's an evil bastard, but he is our evil bastard" ..... this has earned them contempt. This is another reason why Americans should feel embarrassed about what their Government has done in the past.
The hatred the USA has of socialists is contemptible and is working against them now. Armies are a tool of the government the USA would not allow the Army to take over in the USA, so why should it support it happening in another country.
In the past?
CIA be like
"Are we the bad guys?"
"Yeah."
"Huh. Anyways."
anti-communism is an inherently genocidal ideology
This was very informative. Good work.
Thank you for this video! it's very informative and telling.
please consider doing some about places in the Caribbean
My uncle and my grandmother were tortured and killed on a death flight. My uncle was politically active, my grandmother was not. As a matter of fact, she was the widower of a military officer herself, but the junta made her "disappear" too so they could torture her in front of my uncle to extract information from him.
Survivors from the military school that served as their clandestine concentration camp and torture centre later testified that she also had to work as a midwife (something he had no training for) helping to birth the children of the pregnant political prisoners that were later stolen.
Something similar is happening in Egypt to a lesser extent. As usual, the US is also supporting the Egyptian dictator, Sisi.
Beautiful, excellent artwork. I love these. Please continue your hard work. God bless.
Very informative video! Really engaging and important to know!
Fantastic piece, great stuff as always. You guys are doing a great job exposing just how corrupt and despotic the US regimes have been over the years. I went to fight in Iraq because I believed in America - now, that's my greatest regret. I wish I hadn't, I wish I'd seen what was really going on... If there are any Iraqis (or really anyone else who has been screwed over by US imperialism) reading this, know this: I am truly sorry, and I will do whatever I can to atone for the crimes I took part in facilitating.
You are a good man.
gravel never misses
Interesting video, love this channel!
Excellent presentation ché.
Glad to see the history of brought to a more massive audience. This wound is still very recent, almost anyone here has friends or families with missing loved ones, taken away by the fascists. It's apalling to see neolibs and neofascists today peddling historic revisionism of the military process.
I remember once getting pushback from my friends when I said that Trump was a wannabe fascist. Like that sort of thing was unthinkable in America. The fact that the USA's actions in Latin America has been memory holed, gives the rise of domestic fascism cover.
Great work.
Good Report Sir.