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Re: Pinochet's Bloodbath
Posted by The Editors on December 19, 2006, 1:38 pm, in reply to "Re: Pinochet's Bloodbath"
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There's quite a bit we'd like to have added, but it was already very long. This exchange with Jon Snow would have been perfect next to Hilton's comments:
DE: “...Greg Palast wrote in the Observer: ‘The October 1970 plot against Chile’s President-elect Salvador Allende, using CIA “sub-machine guns and ammo”, was the direct result of a plea for action a month earlier by Donald Kendall, chairman of PepsiCo, in two telephone calls to the company’s former lawyer, President Richard Nixon.’ I saw that in the Observer, but I didn’t see it discussed anywhere else. Did you see that discussed anywhere else?”
JS: “Well, I haven’t seen that particular story discussed anywhere else, but we all +know+ that the Pinochet coup was a corporate American coup, and it’s been detailed to bloody oblivion! If I read another story about ITT...”
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Re: Pinochet's Bloodbath
Posted by David Wearing on December 19, 2006, 2:29 pm, in reply to "Re: Pinochet's Bloodbath" User logged in as: David Wearing
You're quite right to remind Snow and Hilton that these matters aren't actually common knowledge. And yes, their not mentioning these aspects of the story fits into the broader corporate-media pattern you describe.
But is Hilton really the best place to focus your critique? Have a read of this for example:
Latin America rises up, by Isabel Hilton
"While Bush pursues his global mission, big changes are happening in his own backyard. A region Washington is used to bullying has started to rebel - and it has found a new friend"  http://www.newstatesman.com/200506200004
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Re: Pinochet's Bloodbath
Posted by The Editors on December 19, 2006, 7:41 pm, in reply to "Re: Pinochet's Bloodbath" User logged in as: Editor
Thanks, David, you make some interesting points. .......
* That's an interesting example right there. What were targeted and destroyed in Chile, Nicaragua and Guatemala were not "leftist movements" but democratic governments. The campaigns of terror were against independent nationalism, against whole nations, not just "movements", and certainly not just "leftist movements". This article tells us little about the deeper purpose behind this violence in the region and across the Third World generally.
The media are happy to draw attention to examples of violence in this way - Pinochet's "caravan of death" has been mentioned endlessly. The problem is when you start looking for systematic patterns indicating deep Western complicity sacrificing people for profit. It +is+ there, but in minute doses. Similarly, that Hilton would discuss the role of the media in facilitating this systematic policy is close to inconceivable, but I would argue it is absolutely central to understanding the issue. .......
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Re: Pinochet's Bloodbath
Posted by Martin on December 19, 2006, 3:40 pm, in reply to "Re: Pinochet's Bloodbath"
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I recommend the book "NATOs secret armies: operation Gladio and terrorism in Western Europe" by Daniele Ganser (Frank Cass, 2005). It demonstrates the same process in Europe between 1945 and 1990 (coups, assasinations, indiscriminate terror).
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