USA, Brazilian dictators, plotted anti Allende coup

This video from the USA is called DICTATOR PINOCHET LEGACY NARRATED BY DEMOCRACY NOW.

From the National Security Archive in the USA:

Brazil Conspired with U.S. to Overthrow Allende

Declassified U.S. Documents Show Richard Nixon and Brazilian President [dictator] Emilio Médici Discussed Coordinated Intervention in Chile, Cuba, and other Latin American nations “to prevent new Allendes and Castros”

Secret Back Channel established between Presidents

Brazilian General Accused U.S. of Asking Brazil to “do its dirty work”

National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 282

Posted – August 16, 2009

Two Chilean women living in the United States were so moved by the plight of people who were detained and disappeared during the 1973-1990 dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet that they overcame the problems of distance, and wrote a book reconstructing the personal lives of eight victims through the accounts given by their closest relatives: here.

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