Images 40 years after 9/11, 1973

'73 thoughts

During the Dictatorship, my father was detained by the military and my mom, who was in a subversive group, the MIR, got shot by army men. Even though, they have always talked bad about Salvador Allende's government. Despite the fact they suffered as much or worse than a lot of Chileans back in those days, they don't idealize the socialist time before that. So, what do I think about this day? According to my family, socialism was a really shitty time. Allende was a good man, but surrounded by useless and ignorant so-called polititians. There were a lot of good intentions, but poorly executed.

I don't defend what happened in '73 and the following 17 years, but can't imagine a Chile without those events. Hopefully time will erase the wounds in our people's souls. Maybe one day the beautiful Allende's last speech become truth, and we'll all walk free in the great avenues of our lives.

September 11, 1973

So I assume that everyone expects me to, as a Chilean, make a comment about the 40 years since the Golpe (coup d'etat). I'm 30 now, so I've lived a lot of 11's. Don't really have an opinion, I declare myself pretty much ignorant about it. All I know is that because of all the people that died that day, and the ones who were killed afterwards, I now have a laptop where to write this and access to the Internet to publish it...

But, well, this is according to the people in charge of this country. The other people, who are not in charge, but at the same time have a lot of economical and politic power, say other thing. Neither of them have or deserve my respect, so I'm just being neutral. 9/11 was shit, though.