371. The 1973 Chilean Coup: General Pinochet Seizes Power (Part 2)

The Rest Is History

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🗓️ 21 September 2023

⏱️ 48 minutes

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The U.S. have given up on ousting the socialist President Allende through democratic means, and shift to a more militaristic approach, in the form of General Pinochet. Once known as the ‘dull dog’, a man who had a reputation for procuring Jeeps for his fellow troops, the son of a customs official, he would overthrow Allende and become a bloodthirsty tyrant, killing thousands and torturing far, far more. In our second episode on the 1973 Chilean coup, Tom and Dominic look at how the coup itself unfolded, Salvador Allende’s ensuing fate, and what life was like in Chile under the ruthless Pinochet. *The Rest Is History Live Tour 2023*: Tom and Dominic are back on tour this autumn! See them live in London, New Zealand, and Australia! Buy your tickets here: restishistorypod.com Twitter: @TheRestHistory @holland_tom @dcsandbrook Producer: Theo Young-Smith Executive Producers: Jack Davenport + Tony Pastor Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Thank you for listening to the rest is history.
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0:18.0	The rest is history. Until the arrest of the former President Pinochet last October, Chile had achieved three remarkable successes, all of them in large measure
0:36.1	due to former President Pinochet. First, it had seen the total defeat of communism, at a time when that ideology was advancing
0:45.4	throughout the hemisphere as Eduardo Frye the former Christian Democrat
0:51.6	president of Chile put it,
0:53.2	the military saved Chile.
0:56.2	Secondly, Chile has seen the establishment of a thriving
1:00.8	free enterprise economy which has transformed living standards and made
1:06.0	Chile into a model for Latin America.
1:09.4	Thirdly, Chile is also remarkable because President Pinochet established a constitution for a return to democracy,
1:18.0	held a plebeasy to decide whether or not he should remain in power,
1:22.8	lost the vote, though gaining 44% support,
1:26.8	respected the result and handed over power
1:30.8	to a democratically elected successor.
1:35.0	So that, Dominic, was Margaret Thatcher speaking in 1999, she, by which point she was Baroness, Margaret Thatcher, in the House of Lords.
1:45.5	And that I'm kind of vaguely remembering this.
1:48.0	General Pinochet, he'd become a senator.
1:50.6	He came to Britain, didn't he, on a visit to Mr Thatcher?
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