Aug 19, 2013 – 11th September 2013 40 years anniversary of the disgraceful CIA led military Coup in Chile. I made a video edit of El President featuring orig footage of the coup. It is my small tribute to a truly great man. Salvador Allende. El President – Drugstore (feat. thom yorke) – DIRECTOR’S CUT Edited by Isabel Monteiro specially for the upcoming ‘The Best of Drugstore’ album (cherry red records – sept 2013). Featuring original footage of the 73 coup in Chile.
Listening to The Best of Drugstore on Amazon Music.
Related:
Song of the Day: War in Music (Day Five). “They Killed the President”.
Despite these witnesses to Allende’s apparent suicide, many of Allende’s supporters have always upheld the presumption that he was killed by the forces staging the coup. On the 28th September 1973, just two weeks after Allende’s death, Fidel Castro told the Cuban crowd in Havana’s Plaza de la Revolucion that Allende had died in La Moneda wrapped in a Chilean flag, firing at General Pinochet with Castro’s rifle. Castro continued to tell his version of events to the Cuban people for the next few decades. In his 1975 book TheMurder of Allende and the end of the Chilean way to socialism, Robinson Rojas agreed with Castro’s version of events and claimed that Allende was killed by Pinochet’s military forces whilst defending the palace.
Despite the speculation as to what actually happened to Allende, the end of the military junta in Chile in 1988 and different testimonies becoming available in news and documentary interviews have made the verdict of suicide the more accepted version of events. Members of Allende’s immediate family have never disputed that killed himself. However, there are some who still argue that Allende was murdered, including Chilean doctor Luis Ravanal, who in 2008 published an article in El Periodista magazine claiming that Allende’s wounds were incompatible with suicide. In response to the article, Isabel Allende, the daughter of the President said that the correct version of events was suicide.
In January 2011, a Chilean judge opened an investigation into the death of Salvador Allende, as well as hundreds of other possible human rights abuses committed during the 1973 coup which brought Augusto Pinochet to power. In May of the same year, Allende’s remains were exhumed by order of the Chilean court in furtherance of a “criminal investigation into the death of Allende”. On the 31st May 2011, shortly before the autopsy had been completed, Chile’s state television reported that a top-secret military account of Allende’s death had been discovered in the home of a former military justice official. The 300 page document was only found when the house was destroyed when the house was destroyed by the 2010 Chilean earthquake. Following a review of the document by two forensic experts, findings revealed “that they are inclined to conclude that Allende was assassinated”.
The murder of Allende and the end of the Chilean way to socialism (PDF)
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