Five decades on, Chile still grapples with legacy of Pinochet dictatorship • FRANCE 24 English

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  • @gonzie3915
    @gonzie3915 2 місяці тому +5

    & on the morning of September 11th, 1973, Allende became a "Good Communist"

  • @thephotoandthestory
    @thephotoandthestory 8 місяців тому +9

    Communism literally does this ish to people. It does not justify doing it to communists, but what would the communists have done to the middle class of Chile? The same thing. The key is not to swing hard to either pole.

    • @RakuenAram
      @RakuenAram 6 місяців тому +3

      The socialists came to power in Chile thanks to a democratic election.
      If you ever read what happened to Chile under Salvador Allende you wouldn't be saying this nonesense, especially when Salvador Allende isn't even a communist, he's a socialist. The first year under Allende's presidency, Chile's middle class was enriched and became bigger, but then the US headed president by Reagan at that time "made Chile's economy scream" -those are the words of Reagan himself- and then the CIA backed the military coup that brought Pinochet to power.
      Salvador Allende's first words when he heard the sound of skirmishes and bombardments in the presidential palace were : "I wonder what they did with poor Pinochet" ; He thought Pinochet didn't betray the state and the democracy of Chile.

    • @thephotoandthestory
      @thephotoandthestory 6 місяців тому +1

      @@RakuenAram Nixon

  • @marycoo3845
    @marycoo3845 Рік тому +37

    Actually, by a hairline, General Pinochet avoided a Civil War. Millions of Chileans were deeply unhappy and wished Allende to quit, but he refused. Cuba helped Allende with moral support, but Chileans wanted food, they needed food. Allende's 3 years as president had Chile on its knees, hungry and angry. Sorry, but that is the truth. General Pinochet saved a million or two million Chileans from harming each other or even worse than that. Eventually, the Chilean Armed Forces restored order and led the country to success (in fact to great success). Sadly, in war or in serious conflicts there are innocent civilian casualties. I used to know many people from Chile (friends, friends-of-friends, families and so forth), but none were hurt or lost. They lived a normal life such as work and family life and followed the Armed Forces orders - anarchy doesn't work. For instance, one has to stop at a red traffic light because if you don't stop you are toast or get a ticket for traffic violation.
    I have been following the latest in Chile.....very sad to read about robberies, serious assaults etc etc. Looks like life in Chile is utterly out of control......very sad. I understand that the present sitting Chilean president is a very, very young man without experience.......
    Like a young doctor.........no thank you (yes, yes they all need practice, still no thank you). Me a guinea pig? No thank you very much.

    • @alis5893
      @alis5893 Рік тому +7

      Exactly . people make mistake of judging the past with todays values

    • @DiegoreSCL
      @DiegoreSCL Рік тому

      The CIA caused the unrest. The documents were de-classified and even the New York Times acknowledged this. The hunger, the truck drivers strike, the food shortage, was all orquestrated by the United States because they didn't want a "socialist" president in their "backyard". The people you know who were never hurt or lost, they are a minority. A privileged sector, even. Most chileans lived in fear of the police and the military going mad with power and detaining people just because they felt like it. My family was tortured, beaten and persecuted because they did "unthinkable things" like organizing the neighborhood to assure all got enough to eat (this was seen as "communism" by the military).
      Pinochet saved nothing. Killed thounsands of chileans. Stealed millions of pesos, derived to numerous false accounts in international banks, and glorified himself saying he was saving the economy. No amount of economic stability justify killing thousands of people in concetration camps. Pinochet is our own Hitler. People who idolize him are sick, ignorant or privileged by his actions, years later.

    • @wokeeye6441
      @wokeeye6441 Рік тому +1

      Capitalism's authoritarian side. Quite ironic...and sad

    • @alis5893
      @alis5893 Рік тому

      @@wokeeye6441 look at Cuba. that general did the right thing. communists are cancer.

    • @silverianjannvs5315
      @silverianjannvs5315 Рік тому

      Chilean main cooper and gold mining industries was was 100% under American control. Now they had to pay education and healthcare

  • @renatosureal
    @renatosureal Рік тому +53

    BEST Chilean president, ever !!

    • @Centurion97
      @Centurion97 Рік тому

      If you think butchering thousands and selling out your country to foreign capitalists is good, sure

    • @paganpoet3
      @paganpoet3 Рік тому

      Dictator.
      Military dictatorship .
      Thats not "president".
      It's called dictatorship.
      And the leader is a dictator.

    • @25mbl1995
      @25mbl1995 Рік тому +6

      You are right. Allende was the best Chilean president ever.

    • @kafkaesk3449
      @kafkaesk3449 Рік тому +2

      *dictator

    • @JB-dx7fk
      @JB-dx7fk 11 місяців тому

      ​@@25mbl1995 you mean murderer that was no better than Pinochet? Allende plunging people into hunger and surprising protests by sending in the army is not murder? Interesting. Socialists always hide the full story.

  • @jesuschristislord77733
    @jesuschristislord77733 Рік тому +32

    Pinochet Solutions 2024 🦅🇺🇲

  • @wokeeye6441
    @wokeeye6441 Рік тому +11

    Capitalism's authoritarian side. Ironic

    • @kafkaesk3449
      @kafkaesk3449 Рік тому

      why ironic? capitalism never implied democracy in the first place

    • @MA-go7ee
      @MA-go7ee 11 місяців тому

      ​@@kafkaesk3449 maybe because free market individualism is highly correlated with democracy?

    • @Viorapido
      @Viorapido 3 дні тому +1

      it seems... but is not... with Pinochet we, the great mallority that did NOT vote for the marxist Allende, lived in peace with much more freedom than now in "democracy"...

  • @Mrc172
    @Mrc172 Рік тому +18

    Generously assisted by the U.S.A

    • @JorgeUgarte-wk7dt
      @JorgeUgarte-wk7dt Рік тому

      Soviet union and cuba were assisting Allende to impose a communist dictatorship in chile which would have been worst

    • @bullterror5
      @bullterror5 10 місяців тому

      And Devils Island, formerly known as Australia

  • @diegoflores9237
    @diegoflores9237 Рік тому +12

    The west gave this guy support. But the west likes to talk about "western values"

    • @Studiosmediamilk
      @Studiosmediamilk Рік тому

      Pinochet saved Chile and gave them an economic miracle while the democratically elected ""western leaders""" lose their time discussing people's sexual behaviors and morality.

    • @thephotoandthestory
      @thephotoandthestory 8 місяців тому

      He was bad. Allende was also bad. We just don't get the full picture because he is lionized. He was conspiring with the Soviets to assist in repressing the middle class of his people. Pinochet was the result. Both left and right have horrid authoritarian tendencies.

  • @RakuenAram
    @RakuenAram 6 місяців тому +1

    The first year under Allende's presidency, Chile's middle class was enriched and became bigger, but then the US headed president by Reagan at that time "made Chile's economy scream" those are the words of Reagan himself and then the CIA backed the military coup that brought Pinochet to power.
    Salvador Allende's first words when he heard the sound of skirmishes and bombardments in the presidential palace were : "I wonder what they did with poor Pinochet" ; He thought Pinochet didn't betray the state and the democracy of Chile.
    Later that day, Salvador Allende gave his last speech by broadcasting it on national radio just before shooting himself with a rifle that was gifted to him by Fidel Castro in the past.

  • @Studiosmediamilk
    @Studiosmediamilk Рік тому +36

    Long live Pinochet!!!

  • @ariccua6101
    @ariccua6101 Рік тому +2

    Here because Chile is actually hosting the Pan American Games right now, with that stadium being used for the ceremonies and the athletics tournaments.
    And if you watched their opening ceremony, it also paid tribute to those times.

  • @veronicasanacion
    @veronicasanacion Рік тому +4

    Chileans took to the streets to support Allende even when the right-wing sinister boycot was underway. Allende was going to call for a Referendum in September to let Chileans decide if he stayed as President or resigned, but Allende told the wrong man about the referendum. Augusto Pinochet had managed to get close to the President and the Military Commanders who fostered Democracy (Schneider, Prats...) but he showed his true intentions days after he heard of the Referendum and he and his allies carried out the bloody Coup D´État on the 11 of September.

    • @vladimirj.fuentesl.3548
      @vladimirj.fuentesl.3548 Рік тому +1

      Mentiroso!... La mayoría de lo chilenos pediamos un pronunciamiento militar ya que el Marxista asesino Misógino Homofóbico de Salvador Allende tenía al país en la miseria!....

  • @MrSupernova111
    @MrSupernova111 Рік тому +3

    I was not aware of this important piece of history! Thank you for the video!

  • @libbychang413
    @libbychang413 3 місяці тому

    nixon exported neoliberalism to chile via pinochet...&when reagan imported neoliberalism back to the US, a bit of pinochet came back with his policies, where it gestated for the next 30 yrs & came to fruition in 2010....

  • @McD-j5r
    @McD-j5r Рік тому +8

    Horror Regime

    • @timwarcloud
      @timwarcloud Рік тому +22

      Great regime! Saved Chile from the reds.

    • @Kaimi-nd6ud
      @Kaimi-nd6ud 11 місяців тому +1

      @@timwarcloud Countries can thrive under socialism. The assertion that Western oppression causes failure deserves consideration.

    • @EternalEmperorofZakuul
      @EternalEmperorofZakuul 10 місяців тому

      ​@@Kaimi-nd6udlike?

    • @smokeyk7254
      @smokeyk7254 7 місяців тому

      pinochet did nothing wrong

    • @mattchewy7184
      @mattchewy7184 Місяць тому +1

      ​@Kaimi-nd6ud wrong.

  • @Windy-Pie_is_best_girl
    @Windy-Pie_is_best_girl 9 днів тому

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