that my sacrifice will not be in vain, I have the
sure that at least there will be a lesson
moral punish the felony, cowardice and betrayal "
This September 11 met 37 years one of the darkest moments experienced by Latin American democracy: the overthrow and assassination of Chilean President Salvador Allende and with it the establishment of a bloody dictatorship for 17 years remained in that nation Augusto Pinochet, backed by the U.S. government and the ruling classes of that country.
During the government of Salvador Allende, the mass media played a key role in the formation of an industry standard of the population. Newspapers, radio and television to openly and directly supported the fascist right.
The information generated was manipulated in order to discredit the actions and the figure of Chilean leader and promote the class and excluding from powerful sectors.
Already during campaigns 1970 presidential, right-wing press began a campaign against the Popular Unity coalition (UP), which aimed to discredit socialism and arouse fear among the Chilean population.
One of the hitherto most prestigious Chilean daily, El Mercurio, owned by businessman Agustín Edwards Eastman, was placed at the service of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA for its acronym in English) against payment of a substantial amount of dollars.
From its pages daily is attacking President Allende, was disqualified the action of its government and encouraged opposition groups, who kept on sabotage by strikes protests unjustified and wealthy sectors and professional associations. As
today private media in Venezuela from 1970 to 1973, the Chileans were surprised every day with headlines such as "Government is put outside the law," "Growing alarm over shortage", "road safety", " Chile to the brink of bankruptcy of its democratic system, "First stage of the Chilean road to socialism: rationing and hunger."
The intention was also to foster further change in the factors of power, so that instilled fear in the population in fear of "the specter of communism."
also sought to convince people of the need for a "needed change" where a strong hand to the "government failure" was due to arrive to curb insecurity.
After the coup, the journal is devoted to the manufacture of false information, trying to convince the Chilean people, the legitimacy of the coup government, besides covering up the torture and murders carried out by the Military Junta of Government, through fictitious information.
One such case is that of the Communist Party member, Martha Ugarte, 42, whose body was found on the beach The Whale between the resorts of Los Molles and Los Vilos, 12 September 1976, bearing signs of torture and rape.
Ugarte had tied a wire in the neck, which was strangled before being thrown into the sea from a helicopter of the Army of Chile.
To justify the murder of journalist Beatriz Undurraga, El Mercurio, was responsible for creating, communications advice to the Directorate of National Intelligence (DINA) version which claimed that Marta Ugarte had died as a result of "a crime of passion. "
Every newspaper chain company Mercury, throughout the country, spread this distortion of the facts, simultaneously with the central news television channels.
The 119 The 119 are kidnapped by the Dina, whose names were included by the dictatorship on the payroll of Chileans were murdered by their fellow communists or in clashes with security forces abroad.
14 and June 16, 1975, Mercury announced that 50 guerrillas had been arrested in Talca and other groups have crossed the border from Argentina into a combined plan Revolutionary Left Movement (MIR) Chile and the People's Revolutionary Army (ERP) in Argentina.
The owners of the newspaper said that "reports from Buenos Aires" realize a clash with the Carabineros (Chilean police) that would have resulted in some casualties.
On 18 July, Argentina's Read magazine, published an article asserting that "about 60 militants have been killed in Chile in recent months in Argentina, Colombia, Venezuela, Panama, Mexico and France by his own comrades ", describing the move as" a vast and ruthless program of revenge and political cleansing. "
few days later, another publication or day, in Curitiba, Brazil, said that 59 "extremists Chileans were identified among the rebels killed in clashes with police in the province of Salta, Argentina.
Chilean press, totally controlled by the dictatorship, he displayed an unusual advertising campaign based on information from foreign publications referred to, including a list of suspected militants killed in abroad. By the way, were the names of some of the hostages in 1974 by Dina.
Hit Before
Like today, in the 70's, the Chilean people was separated into castes, in which economic power excelled above all others, with strong prevailing monopolies that exploited by transnational ties meager wages to workers and took over natural resources with the approval of the ruling right.
Popular movements and organizations of the left (communist parties, socialist and radical) after several years of struggle, joined in the Popular Unity, which led the doctor Salvador Allende to the presidency on September 4, 1970.
At the White House, Richard Nixon, U.S. president, advised by Henry Kissinger ordered the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA for short English) activating a plot to prevent Allende from taking office that had been democratically. Not advisable to other Latin American nations follow the same path he took in Santiago de Chile.
The plan also contemplated the assassination of senior Chilean military officers who might oppose the plot and cause severe internal crisis by political instability, economic chaos and lawlessness in the country.
37 years ago, back in Chile and in Venezuela today, the bourgeois media in alliance with big capital and the U.S. government, launched a campaign of terror to overthrow the constitutional president regardless of the high cost in human lives that their plot would be.
37 years later, Chile has a social inequality rates very high, although the great capitalist press claims to the alleged labor peace was reached there, without explaining that such harmony was imposed by force of bayonets. Pinochet's dictatorship left 2 000 279 deaths, more than 28 000 prisoners and tortured and an unknown number missing.
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