U.S. Officials: “Our Policy on Allende Worked Very Well”
Kissinger joked that “the President is worried that we might want to send someone to Allende’s funeral. I said I did not believe we were considering that.”
The Documented U.S. Role in the Months, Days and Hours Before the Overthrow Of Allende
Edited by Peter Kornbluh
September 8, 2023, Washington D.C. – “In the Eisenhower period, we would be heroes,” Henry Kissinger told President Richard Nixon several days after the overthrow of Salvador Allende in Chile, lamenting that they would not receive credit in the press for this Cold War accomplishment. Fifty years later, as Chileans and the world commemorate the anniversary of the U.S.-backed military takeover that brought General Augusto Pinochet to power, a fierce debate over the extent of the U.S. contribution to the coup continues. On September 6, a leading Chilean television channel, Chilevision, broadcast a major documentary film titled “Operation Chile: Top Secret,” featuring dozens of U.S. declassified records obtained by the National Security Archive’s Chile Documentation Project, including recently obtained documents published in the new Chilean edition of Archive analyst Peter Kornbluh’s book, “Pinochet Desclasificado.”
On the eve of the 50th anniversary, the Archive is posting an edited section of Kornbluh’s book—The Pinochet File—on the “Countdown Toward the Coup.” The essay records U.S. government actions, internal debates and policy deliberations as conditions for the coup evolved between March and September 1973. “This is an intricate, complicated and extraordinarily revealing history,” Kornbluh said, “that holds many lessons on the secret abuses of U.S. power and the danger of dictatorship over democracy for today’s world community.” (…)
Para seguir leyendo: https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/chile/2023-09-08/chiles-coup-50-countdown-toward-coup
Más que un recuento histórico de unas tradiciones nacionales e internacionales de irreverencia, estas líneas apuntan a contextualizar unos acontecimientos trágicos que, si bien han contribuido en forjar una unanimidad en varias escalas (el atentado en contra del periódico satírico Charlie Hebdo, el 7 de enero de 2015) y han sido condenados en América Latina por los defensores de la democracia – a nivel gubernamental, gremial o intelectual y artístico — también se han visto sesgados por una propaganda de cuño « ultra », bajo lemas anticolonialistas y anti imperialistas totalmente descontextualizados. Obviamente, el historiador del tiempo presente no puede permanecer incólume ante semejante malversación de la historia y desconocimiento de la misma si consideramos el compromiso de los mismos caricaturistas en pro de la democracia tanto en América Latina como en España (…)
