I want to welcome everyone back to the Piquino show.

Doing a little timely one here.

We're going to be releasing this on September 11th.

And I guess somebody, some people would think we were doing a 9-11 episode.

But, no, this is actually the 50th anniversary of the coup in Chile.

And I wanted to have Thomas on to give his opinion of what it was and how it went down and how it benefited the right. Does that sound good? I mean, yeah, I mainly,

I mainly want to dismantle misconceptions as well as out and out confabulations about the situation

in Chile, you know, cultural, political, and historical, because all these things

play into the equation. You know, I'm not just being a historical researcher who's

insinuating his own fetishes for anthropological data into this discussion, it really is significant in a way in the case

it's Chile, and Latin America generally, but Chile in particular, that we're going to talk about

what happened there and why it became such a critical Cold War battle theater, and that's the way

to understand this. That's the way to understand this.

That's the way to understand this.

That's the way to understand the totality of what became Operation Condor.

That's the way to understand the situation in Argentina, which was a lot more murky and conspiratorial than that of Chile.

I mean, that it warrant the discussion all unto itself. But particularly the,

you know, what developed in Nicaragua and El Salvador and Grenada was key as well in the final phase of the Cold War.

And people, they don't fully understand.

At the time, people generally did,

it's interesting how they kind of tortured rationales,

people would resort to these Peter Arnett types types and even oliver stone who made a pretty

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