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[BEST OF] Chilean Coup of 1973: Salvador Allende, Pinochet, & the CIA

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Augusto Pinochet and the Chilean Coup

Augusto Pinochet was a military man. He steps into the scene in 1972, 1973. The coup has been planned. There's radio transmission that are declassified now that you can hear Pinochet communicating to his commanders on the ground. They're asking him what to do about a yendé who was in the presidential palace getting bombed by British made jets. You have these hunter, hawker British made jet just bombing the hell out of the Monella which is the Chilean version of the White House. So that is like a crazy, I mean, you see the footage of this in Guzman's La Bataille Chile.

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