The Other 9/11

This is a re-run from September 11, 2019. We speak with Ricardo Acuna and Sandra Azocar, two Chilean refugees, to listen to their stories of the CIA-backed coup that installed brutal Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet and overthrew a democratically elected socialist government on September 11, 1973. 

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Further reading:

• CIA still refuses to reveal everything it knows about Pinochet coup in Chile
• Canada’s support for the right wing coup in Chile 
• Allende’s last words to the people of Chile
• Documenting U.S. Role in Democracy’s Fall and Dictator’s Rise in Chile
• Declassified American intelligence documents on American involvement in Chilean coup
• Chile dictatorship victim toll bumped to 40,018
• How the Chilean coup forever changed Canada's refugee policies
• The ‘Chicago Boys’ in Chile: Economic Freedom’s Awful TollPinochet forced to mount coup, Klein says
• Universities entangled in flap over Klein essay
• Review clears Klein of plagiarism allegation