Tag: Salvador Allende

EL PRESIDENT HD Drugstore feat Thom Yorke

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

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.

EL PRESIDENT HD Drugstore feat Thom Yorke

Listening to The Best of Drugstore on Amazon Music.

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A group of US representatives call for an end to the Monroe Doctrine and interventionism in Latin America

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Two centuries after the speech that inaugurated the United States’ policy toward the region, five Democratic lawmakers call for an end to the Cuban embargo and the declassification of secret CIA files, as well as reforms to the IMF and the OAS

A group of US representatives call for an end to the Monroe Doctrine and interventionism in Latin America

Doubtful that this will ever happen.

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AOC-Led Delegation Can Push for New Approach to Latin America

On the strategic relationship between Venezuela and China

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

During a state visit to the People’s Republic of China in September 2023, Venezuelan president, Nicolas Maduro met president Xi Jinping and both agreed to strengthen the relationship of their countries by establishing seven sub commissions to elevate it to the level of ‘all-weather strategic partnership’. This is the culmination of a relationship that began with president Hugo Chavez’s first visit to Beijing in 1999, the very first year of his presidency.

On the strategic relationship between Venezuela and China

Henry Kissinger, world-shaping diplomat who was revered and reviled, dies at 100

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Henry Kissinger, the toweringly influential former secretary of state who earned a reputation as a sagacious diplomat but drew international condemnation and accusations of war crimes for his key role in widening the American presence in Vietnam and the U.S. bombing of Cambodia, died Wednesday.

Henry Kissinger, world-shaping diplomat who was revered and reviled, dies at 100 🎉

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Dead at 100, Henry Kissinger Leaves Behind a Bloody Legacy

50 years after Chile’s coup, Salvador Allende’s grandson speaks about Britain’s role in the rise of Pinochet

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)
Margaret Thatcher with Chilean dictator, General Augusto Pinochet
(Reuters)

In Santiago, Declassified spoke with Pablo Sepúlveda Allende about Margaret Thatcher’s friendship with Chile’s dictator and how Labour helped him evade justice for crimes against humanity.

50 years after Chile’s coup, Salvador Allende’s grandson speaks about Britain’s role in the rise of Pinochet

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The end of Allende

Chile, September 11, 1973: The Horrors of ‘the First 9/11’ Are Routinely Overlooked

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)
Salvador Allende’s Final Speech on Sept. 11, 1973

Each September large memorials are held for the 9/11 attacks on the US. Yet few recall the far more destructive 9/11 that occurred 28 years before.

Chile, September 11, 1973: The Horrors of ‘the First 9/11’ Are Routinely Overlooked

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Chile and the United States: Declassified Documents Relating to the Military Coup, September 11, 1973

AOC-Led Delegation Can Push for New Approach to Latin America

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

You might not know it by the relatively scant news coverage, but the U.S. congressional delegation, led by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, that visited Brazil, Chile, and Colombia in August marked a big step forward in the development of a new U.S. approach to Latin America and highlighted the important role that the U.S. progressive left has to play in it.

AOC-Led Delegation Can Push for New Approach to Latin America

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AOC urges US to apologize for meddling in Latin America: ‘We’re here to reset relationships’

Asked if the left needs to build a counterweight network, Ocasio-Cortez, whose trip to Latin America was branded “AOC’s socialist sympathy tour” by Rupert Murdoch’s conservative Wall Street Journal newspaper, replied: “I absolutely believe that the battle for democracy must be transnational and it must be global, and it especially must be hemispheric.