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patrick1
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« on: September 11, 2013, 05:58:06 PM »

I have to say that as a Chilean I'm very surprised. Leaving aside my personal view of what happened in that day and my opinions on the Military Junta, it really surprises me that this traumatic event of our history seems to be very famous around the world.

I was talking about this with some of my classmates, and you can still see a lot of inherited resentment even if we we all born five or six years after Pinochet left government and 22-23 years after the coup. There many of us that want to leave the past behind, and many of us who wish to never forget, but no one here can honestly say that they don't care about what happened.

For those things and more, with date has good reasons to be one of the most important and relevant events in Chilean history, and my words may strike as odd (some might say that partisanship and naivety is to blame, I disagree with that), but many of my classmates, many friends, and myself feel the need to ask: Why is it such a known event across the world?

I was down in your lovely country back in 2011 and my general sense was that there was most certainly still a lot of resentment but really a rather localized (that being Chile) one. I think this forum, with many history lovers, many of whom are on the left, is not a representative sample of global knowledge about what happened. I also got the general sense that Pinochet still has a base of support- so to speak. Many people that would recognize the crimes of the dictatorship but not completely on board with the possible direction of what may have happened under Allende.

Incidentally I was down in Chile when Bin Laden was killed. The local coverage referring to the mission as an 'assassination' was in stark contrast to how it was received at home.
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