Chile: The Other 9/11 - Socialist Alternative

Tony Saunois, CWI (first published on socialistworld.net, September 2011) 1973 bloody coup against Popular Unity government The terrorist attack on the Twin Towers in New York in 2001 was not the first ’9/11’. In Chile, on 11 September 1973, a bloody coup, led by General Augusto Pinochet and backed by the US administration, overthrew the …