Socialist Party of Chile

written by the Chilean film director and writer, Miguel Littin. Littin was born in the 1940s, was a supporter of Salvador Allende’s regime, and was exiled soon after the assassination of Allende during the rise in power of dictator Augusto Pinochet in Chile during his military coup of the country. Littin is also known for his other films, such as one relevant to this same historical subject is Dawson Isla 10 from 2009 which was a film about events after the 1973 coup that arrested and…

Sociology (Sociology 210) Black Panthers The Black Panthers was a revolutionary black nationalist and socialist group that was active in the United States beginning in 1966 and ended in 1982. (Wikipedia, May 2016.). It only had 1 international chapter that operated in Algeria, Africa which started in 1969 and came to an end in 1972. (Wikipedia, May 2016.). Scholars view the Black Panthers political party as the most influential black movement organization of the late 1960s. It is also described…

Identification & Evaluation of Sources This investigation will examine the question: For What Reasons did a coup d’état take place in Chile on September 11, 1973? The years 1969-1973 will be the focus of this investigation, so as to examine pre-Allende factors that continued into his presidency and to examine their subsequent factors for the coup and to examine Allende’s presidency itself to analyse the events of the time that ultimately caused the coup. The first source that will be…

Although conservative party were criticized in earlier chapters, they are here distinguished form the cruelty and overtly brutal practices of a military dictatorship. As a means of this dictatorship, it resulted to capitalism affecting Esteban who pours his savings and earnings…

international opposition, and internal opposition within the military government) (Kornbluh 159) Projects and measures carried out by the DINA * 13,500 were arrested and detained after the initial Junta coup * Turned National Stadium in Santiago Chile into a detention centre where torture and information extraction was to be carried out * DINA established the “Brigada Ciudana” a branch of the DINA composed of civilians who work for the DINA as informers (Kornbluh 187) *…

A women’s movement that started to take off, consisting of mothers and wives of the people that were disappearing in Chile, they just wanted to bring to attention what others were to scared to express and defend the lives of their children. Alongside their movement was a movement that started to oppose the Catholic church, as shown in document 18, a father was so distressed…

recurred to covert actions against the Soviet Union. These actions were carried out within the Soviet Union, in its satellite and allied states, but also in those countries that were at a risk of infiltration of the USSR, through Communist political parties or trade unions, such as the case of Italy and France. Authorized exclusively by the President of the United States (as Kissinger involuntary had revealed), covert actions in the Cold War have included a wide range of operations, with…

enforce democracy for the past century. The most notable examples are Argentina and Chile. Many political scientists have argued that this is mostly due to internal factors such as the corporatist culture and lack of proper structural reforms, but they do not include external pressures from the international sphere to curb communist influence in Latin America. In this paper, I will argue that from the coup in Chile in 1973 to the Dirty War in Argentina, the United States has enacted…

Government Junta of Chile, thus establishing a military dictatorship in Chile. While Chile’s new dictatorship had occurred in favor of the United States and “looked like Nixon’s…

But in this community in Chile, he held tight control and prohibited any type of interaction among themselves, threatening them that it would be a sin and that they would be…